examples of why people vote for santorum and his ilk: from Bill Maher last night

[IcyPeas]

this was from Bill Maher's show last night, by one of his staff videographers, Alexandria Pelosi. She swears she didn't cherry pick these people. From Mississippi, the poorest part of the country.

faith is their number one argument.

http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html#/video/video.html/eNrjcmbOUM-PSXHMS8ypLMlMDkhMT-VLzE1lzmcu1CzLTEnNh8k45+eVpFaUsDFyMjKypSeWluQX5CRW2pYUlaaqpWXmlKQW2aalJpaUFqWmqJVlppbb5pXm5ABZKbaGRiZGpibGbIwAAgAkoQ==

[janx]

1. That is sad.

It's terrible.

[AlinPA]

2. The GOP candidates are fighting for that vote. The base of the GOP.

[mmonk]

3. I would feel sorry for them if they weren't pulling us all down

with the people they put into our national government.

[frogmarch]

4. Disgusting. We have people with those

attitudes here in western Nebraska too. I think they're everywhere. I hope the rest of us outnumber them.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

5. Sad to say - this could be Louisiana also

[Bozita]

6. That's MUST SEE stuff!

Simply scary!

[Initech]

7. And that's why I loathe the values voters crowd.

[xxqqqzme]

8. '...Our president should be American,

not Muslim....'

Nationality is the same as religion?

The ignorance proudly on display is astonishing. It leaves me dumbstruck!

[Speck Tater]

9. "The south with rise again."

So let them leave the union and form their own country. We'd frankly be better off as a country without them.

[Hosnon]

12. I'm assuming by "them" you mean the type of people illustrated in the segment,

and not Southerners in general.

[Speck Tater]

22. Of course thee would be a grace period

during which the smart people could leave the new country and move to the civilized world.

[progressoid]

15. Frothy does pretty well up north as well.

My neighbor has 4 Santorum signs in his yard.

[ThomThom]

36. hot rise?

Martha White's

[Confusious]

10. The south won't actually "rise" again

They'll just drag us all down to their level.

"a mud hut was good enough for my grand daddy, and his grand daddy, so its good enough for me!"

[Hosnon]

11. I lived in MS for 3 years and it is possible that both she did not cherry pick these people

and that they were not representative of MS.

That type of person is without a doubt common in MS, but it is but one type of person.

No one should take that segment as representative of MS as a whole.

[Hoyt]

13. Let's be fair -- Mississippi has its mint julep drinking racists too, most with teeth.

We've got a lot of the GOP "base" where I live too.

[alittlelark]

14. I actually feel sorry for these ppl.

Ignorance has a high societal price tag.

[Johonny]

27. I agree- it's not funny

it is depressing. I feel sadder for these ppl having seen it

[Demoiselle]

16. In the words of Karl Rove...

"Once they get educated, we lose them."

[thesquanderer]

30. Do you have a reference for that Rove quote?

I'd like to see where that came form, if you happen to know...

[Demoiselle]

37. Mea Culpa. I just tried to find it....

I've blithely quoted it wrong for years, apparently...Here's a source

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Rove

Scroll down and you'll find it...a New Yorker quote, and in reality he said something sort of like that but rather more involved:

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
The New Yorker (February 16, 2001)

Of course , if wikiquote is not particularly trustworthy, then Mea Culpa times a hundred.

[cleanhippie]

17. Wow. Pure, unadulterated, willful ignorance.

[IndyJones]

18. That is the crowd Santorum was speaking to when he was offended Obama wanted people to

get a college education?

Wish she had interviewed some women. Those men are just plain scarey. Did the women folk flee the area?

[nolabear]

19. Here are a few other folks in Mississippi.

North Mississippi Allstars

I go to this festival in Clarksdale as often as I can.

Some relatives hosting.

[cachukis]

26. Most hospitable. Enjoyed every visit from The Shack Up in Clarksdale to the Monmouth in Natchez.

[Initech]

35. I like the south.

My dad is from Kentucky, I go to Kentucky, North Carolina, and Georgia quite often, you do see that crowd a lot and there is a lot of white supremacy and confederate worship, that still exists, but there are a lot of good things in those states.

[aaaaaa5a]

20. That is the base of the GOP

The republican base is a poor, uneducated, religious, rural, southern white male.

[Swede Atlanta]

21. It is truly disheartening.....

We have fellow citizens that continue to hold views such as a black man is not worthy of higher office (well it is good the guy in the video is older because soon whites will be in the minority) or that people actually listen to Faux News and Rush to suggest Obama is not "one of us".

You look at them and you hope they are happy but have to wonder what their lives could have been had they had an an ounce of interest beyond the local bayou and their corner church.

They are indeed backwaters to this nation's greatness.

[Demonaut]

23. those folks thoughts are as deep as the water on my windshield

[trof]

24. You'll find many of those same folks here in Alabama.

And it's so frustrating.
Part of it is because we've starved 'education' in the state.
And part is because of what's 'preached' in bible believing fundamentalist churches.
The bulk of it is just Alabama politics.
Appeal to and stirring up the lowest common denominator works, so why change?

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. The number of states where people like that can be found would be... oh, I'd say

around 50. 50 yes, that sounds about right.

[RZM]

33. Pretty much

I've met lots of similar folks here in Ohio.

[Major Nikon]

28. Faith is just a symptom, not the problem

These are people who hate. Faith is just the mechanism that allows them not to feel bad about themselves for hating. After all, when they are being told by those who supposedly occupy the moral high ground that their hate is OK, why should they feel bad about it?

[hyphenate]

29. What a bunch of jackasses

It seems to me that they're all a bunch of losers with little to no common sense or intelligence. My two cats probably have more intelligence that all of them combined, and it's obvious they don't give a shit about the truth or anything else. Their bigotry is astounding, and I'm appalled at their world view. They hate the health care program, but every single one of them could use a fucking dental plan!!!!




BTW: speaking soecifically about the people in the video. I know many southerners who don't fit into that video stereotype at all.

[RZM]

32. Why no black people? Mississippi is 37 percent black

Their voice was left out entirely. As was the voice of educated Mississippians.

I do enjoy Bill's show. But as much as he tried to deny it, I do think this piece reflected a coastal liberal view of the south. Nothing but uneducated white people. It's odd to me that people outside of the south seem to forget that the south is heavily black. I think it's probably because that fact is inconvenient when trashing the place.

Of course, these people do exist. But they are representative of some Mississippians, not the entire state. That's like saying that the cast of 'Jersey Shore' is representative of people who vacation there. Yeah, there are plenty of oversexed morons at the shore, but plenty of people aren't much like that.

[Initech]

34. The really scary thing? Maher said the reporter had to filter out people with missing teeth.

Must be a lack of good dentists in that area.