OT: How many of you got interviewed in this video?
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guys with 3 teeth, etc. They really went out of their way to find normal people. Hell, Vicksburg Toyota is directly next door to the Corps of Engineers District office on Clay St if they wanted to find an educated invidual. They still might not like Obama but they won't sound like an idiot doing it. You can actually see it in the background at 2:10.
He makes a big deal out of them getting off of a plane and talking to the first people they saw. They had to drive past Dogwood to get to the Walmart they were interviewing idiots in.
Don't get me wrong, we have our share of ******** in this state but I feel certain that if you were to give me a camera and a car, I could find ******** in every single state.
Don't get me wrong, we have our share of ******** in this state but I feel certain that if you were to give me a camera and a car, I could find ******** in every single state.
I find it hard to believe that the first 5 people they ran across coming out of a walmart in MS just happened to be toothless redneck white dudes...
But the thing about that show is: if someone were to call him on that, his defense would be "Hey, I'm a comedian...Nobody takes me seriously! What do you want from me?"
Look, I'm not blind to our past. Nor am I blind to the fact that we have ignorant douche bags that hate people for no other reason than the color of their skin is different... but to depict those 5 as your "typical" Mississippian is disingenuous at best.
But the thing about that show is: if someone were to call him on that, his defense would be "Hey, I'm a comedian...Nobody takes me seriously! What do you want from me?"
Look, I'm not blind to our past. Nor am I blind to the fact that we have ignorant douche bags that hate people for no other reason than the color of their skin is different... but to depict those 5 as your "typical" Mississippian is disingenuous at best.
of Mississippi that virtually all people in other states have ... you can probably exempt the states that border.<div>
</div><div>Even Romney, when he was at the feed store in Jackson (or was it a tractor store?) started with his fake "y'all" talk and mentioned how much he liked grits. Personally, I took that a slap at the south in general, and to Mississippi in particular. I'd say ... just come and talk to us as you would in any other place ... we can understand English. To his credit, but he and Santorum came to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville and acted like they were talking to an educated audience ... none of the condescending southern accent stuff. Why he did it there I have no idea.</div><div>
</div><div>That'd be like one of us if we were candidates walking into a diner in South Philly, use sentences with "yous" and tell them how much you love scrapple. I doubt the locals would appreciate it very much.</div>
</div><div>Even Romney, when he was at the feed store in Jackson (or was it a tractor store?) started with his fake "y'all" talk and mentioned how much he liked grits. Personally, I took that a slap at the south in general, and to Mississippi in particular. I'd say ... just come and talk to us as you would in any other place ... we can understand English. To his credit, but he and Santorum came to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville and acted like they were talking to an educated audience ... none of the condescending southern accent stuff. Why he did it there I have no idea.</div><div>
</div><div>That'd be like one of us if we were candidates walking into a diner in South Philly, use sentences with "yous" and tell them how much you love scrapple. I doubt the locals would appreciate it very much.</div>
I wish both of these clowns would have a cage match to the death. No matter who comes out on top, America wins (I'd hope for a draw). Unfortunately, there is a ring of truth in these videos. Did you guys see where a recent Yahoo poll shows that 52% of Mississippi GOP voters believe Obama is a Muslim? Only 12% believe that he is a Christian, and a quarter of GOP voters believe that the marriage between his mother and father should have been illegal. Guys, we've got to do better.
such as why the poorest state is the most conservative, and I'll also add that Mississippi doesn't even support itself with its tax base. Also, if you want to be "left alone" wouldn't make more since to vote forcandidateswho do not supportrestrictivelegislation. With that said, this was a piss poor attempt to make Mississippi look bad and the sameattitudescould have been found inNorthernCalifornia or Southern Ohio but probably wouldn't have been as funny to most people.
Dude....how old are you? The Government School System has been failing in this state for 40 years.... How much more "failing" should we ante up to pay for?sardis said:
Good grief!!! Let's throw some more freaking money into those pits of failure instead of raising the accountability level 5 fold. That will fix it.**
I feel a lock coming anyway but...Politics on a Sports board cannot do anything but divide a fan base. And this fan base is divided enough by our basketball program.
call Bennie Thompson and suggest he quit helping people build low cost housing in areas where there are absolutely <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">NO OPPORTUNITIES to ever be employed.It`s simply luring</span>people to stay in those areas so they can vote for his sorry ***. You see there are people who thrive on the ignorance and desperation of others.You know food stamps and such in exchange for votes. Get it ?
I bet it's got a lot to do with him being the most biblically hostile president in American history.BulldogBasher said:
I'm not a big Obama supporter, but please tell me what the most "biblically hostile" thing was that he has done so far.
i'm pretty liberal for this board, but i know better than to buy into bill maher and believe these are the everyday mississippians they found. i also know that whent pools come out showing roughly 52% of registered republican mississippians voters believe obama is a muslim we aren't really doing anything to dispel the stereotypes.
I'm not going to get into any kind of political discussion or anything like that but the video was funny.
I wonder when Maher will to the same thingwith Muslims or homosexuals as the object of scorn?
***Edited to correct typo.
***Edited to correct typo.
and I can make the same video with different accents.
Ever notice the only stereotypes accepted are white and southern?
Ever notice the only stereotypes accepted are white and southern?
too bad i was probably actually at work when they came to vicksburg. They just had to go find the most ignorant back woods hillbillies they could find to prove their point. Bad thing is that people see this **** and actually believe this is what all Mississippians are like. heaven forbid they actually find someone that has a college degree. liberals in this state should be just as pissed off as conservatives at this crap called "journalism". it makes the whole state look bad. propaganda at it's finest. and i'm also a moderate republican that believes that a lot of fox news is propaganda. if you want the real story you got read from several different sources to find the truth. and all polls are warped to get the results of whoever gave the poll on both sides. that's my political rant for the week. damn daylight savings time has had me in a bad mood all day.
Obama is the second most overtly Christian president in U.S. history (behind Carter).<div>MStateFan22 said:
</div><div>If only people like you actually cared about history. Most of the early presidents and founding fathers were essentially atheists (that term and ideology hadn't really been developed yet). Franklin Pierce straight up refused to be sworn in on the Bible because he wanted nothing to do with God after his son had died.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet somehow a president who has been quite openly Christian is not only more "biblically hostile" than the aforementioned, somehow 88% of Mississippi Republicans don't even believe he is a Christian...
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Lets throw the deep south fundamentalist "Everything that I don't like is anti-christian, and is therefore inherently evil" types into the ocean, and the California liberals out with them.
But I meant actions that Obama is trying to force. Like taxpayer funded abortions, trying to force birth control on the Catholic Church, etc.<div>
</div><div>I'll admit that I don't know much about Franklin Pierce. So fill me in if he tried to write laws to force his personal beliefs on others.</div>
</div><div>I'll admit that I don't know much about Franklin Pierce. So fill me in if he tried to write laws to force his personal beliefs on others.</div>
Proverbs 6:16-17 - God hates hands that shed innocent blood.<div>
</div><div>That and a lot of small things that Obama has said and done leads me to believe that he is not a Christian.</div><div>
</div><div>Edited to add: I didn't say that I believed he was Muslim. I'm not sure what he truly believes. But I have my doubts about his Christianity so I don't blame 52% for thinking he is Muslim or 88% believing that he is not a Christian.</div>
</div><div>That and a lot of small things that Obama has said and done leads me to believe that he is not a Christian.</div><div>
</div><div>Edited to add: I didn't say that I believed he was Muslim. I'm not sure what he truly believes. But I have my doubts about his Christianity so I don't blame 52% for thinking he is Muslim or 88% believing that he is not a Christian.</div>
If anyone else were to publicly denigrate, or subject any other demographic subculture to ridicule or scorn, there'd be a public outcry, outrage, an investigation, and perhaps criminal charges filed.
Unless the subculture under attack happened to be Catholic, fundamentalist Protestant, Jewish, or Scottish, or perhaps from AL or MS.
That's allowed under the First Amendment. Not in the first case, above.
But I'm just a dumbass redneck from MS; what could I possibly know.
I'm ignernt.
RocketCityRedneck
Unless the subculture under attack happened to be Catholic, fundamentalist Protestant, Jewish, or Scottish, or perhaps from AL or MS.
That's allowed under the First Amendment. Not in the first case, above.
But I'm just a dumbass redneck from MS; what could I possibly know.
I'm ignernt.
RocketCityRedneck
May I ask where you got your Ph.D. in English? To me, they're very similar. They're both shock jocks (for lack of a better term) who pander to the extremists in their own party and refuse to listen to a conflicting opinion, no matter how well-founded it may be. Sounds kind of familiar actually...
Should the government make employers (not tax payers) and insurance companies include contraceptives in their healthcare plans? Probably. The funny thing is that almost all employers include this in their insurance already, including the Catholic Church. When the story first broke, or when it was politically convenient to bring up, the Catholic Church Hospitals were already providing birth control to its employees. Also they are running a business for profit, yet get to skirt the tax system because they are controlled by a religious organization. <div>MStateFan22 said:
</div><div>Another thing that bothers me as a Christian is how everyone is all up in arms about poor people and their babies, wanting to save them from abortions on the tax payers back, and then the second they are born, to hell with them. Christians saying that they could care less if babies get food. If the church was doing its job, we wouldn't need government help. Communities do nothing to help people these days on the scale that is needed. I say provide simple contraceptive free to all, and maybe just maybe we can reduce the number of kids born to out of wedlock poor women in this country. </div><div>
</div><div>I would love to hear other people's solution to the problem. Sex education, ha. Abstinence, ha If I wasn't a ugly ******* during my entire adolescent years, I would have banged anything with a pulse. How do you stop stupid people from having kids they don't want? I say the government mandating that employers are to provide the possibility to every woman in the country is a no brainer. </div><div>
</div><div>The political problem here is the federal government is telling businesses they have to do something, period. We can throw all this righteous crap in there we want, but it really boils down to people in Mississippi hate this President because his name is Barack Obama and he is a black guy. I have heard very educated people almost every month since he started running saying he was a muslim born in a different country. It is just pathetic to thinks such things. In a time when people and our economy are in need, we are focused on bullcrap like this.</div><div>
</div><div>The real issue here is that the video portrayed this state in the typical fashion. They found some rednecks that probably didn't even pass US government in high school, much less debate this type of issue on a daily basis, and made them discuss it on camera. Easy pickins. The video did however catch a few truths. People of Mississippi, both educated and not, have the same views as these poor saps they picked for the video. Not all, but enough where I hear it almost everyday from educated people. Same topics, Muslim, Fascist, Communist, Socialist, soft on terriorist, soft on Iran, terrible family man, etc, etc, etc.
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</div><div>I say everyone calm down, relax, and realize no matter what happens with the election the world will not end like it was predicted prior to the last election.</div>
You take 18 counties out of the State of Mississippi (in the Delta), Mississippi is actually in the middle of the nation in income, education levels, overall health, etc. Those 18 counties are in Bennie Thompson's district- a Democrat Representative. When he came into office in 1993, Thompson was modestly well to do....in 2012, he's worth millions. If you want to get onto Mississippi about their backwardness and ignorance, visit his office.
Of course, with Bill Maher he's wanting to find something to fit his narrow minded about Mississippi. You REALLY want to see racists, go to the rural Midwest.
Of course, with Bill Maher he's wanting to find something to fit his narrow minded about Mississippi. You REALLY want to see racists, go to the rural Midwest.
Then pretty much nobody's one. Isn't your religion all about forgiveness and not judging and such anyway?
The Catholic church is already providing its employees birth control here in New York, because it is mandated by the state. Why they are getting so upset about this is beyond me. Oh, it's because it makes too much sense.<div>
</div><div>You conservatives want to save money? Make birth control AND abortion available to young women who need it. The fewer unwanted babies out there, the fewer problems down the road.</div><div>
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</div><div>You conservatives want to save money? Make birth control AND abortion available to young women who need it. The fewer unwanted babies out there, the fewer problems down the road.</div><div>
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Multiple polls showed that Catholics are the biggest supporters of Obama's birth control compromise, with mainline Protestants being right behind and evangelical Protestants overwhelmingly opposed.<div>
</div><div>Obama is obviously never going to force any Catholic to take birth control against their will, and he's not even making Catholic organizations pay for birth control for their employees (insurance companies have to pay the full cost.)</div><div>
</div><div>Remember, every dollar spent on birth control for poor people saves four dollars in the long run.</div>
</div><div>Obama is obviously never going to force any Catholic to take birth control against their will, and he's not even making Catholic organizations pay for birth control for their employees (insurance companies have to pay the full cost.)</div><div>
</div><div>Remember, every dollar spent on birth control for poor people saves four dollars in the long run.</div>
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