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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOl' Dixie! . . . Please come CAPTION former Dukes of Hazard star Ben Jones!!!
Ben ("George W. Bush is my favorite philosopher!" Jones is staying, "Listen Steve, the Southern flag doesn't stand for slavery. Naw, far from it. . . . It's about heritage! . . . It stands for the sacred ideals that drove our grandfathers to leave the union. Ideals like a gentleman being able to keep his own property and travel with it wherever he wanted to go. . . . Ideals like people ought to be able to do anything with their own property they want to, without big government telling them they can't . . . . It's about keeping white women safe and human pollution at bay. . . . Frankly, Steve, anyone who says it is about slavery is either uninformed or an ideologue!"
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Above CAPTION based on the following MSNBC clip posted on Crooks & Liars:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/msnbc-brings-back-former-dukes-hazzard
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Ol' Dixie! . . . Please come CAPTION former Dukes of Hazard star Ben Jones!!! (Original Post)
skip fox
Jun 2015
OP
What a grotesque display of classic, know-nothing, RW historical revisionism
bullwinkle428
Jun 2015
#2
"Ideals like people ought to be able to do anything with their own property they want to".....
Bonhomme Richard
Jun 2015
#3
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)1. " Of course that property I am talking were human slaves." n/t
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)2. What a grotesque display of classic, know-nothing, RW historical revisionism
by Ben Jones - surprised there wasn't more discussion on this yesterday.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)3. "Ideals like people ought to be able to do anything with their own property they want to".....
like whip, rape, hang, castrate...yada,yada,yada.
spanone
(135,832 posts)4. yea, those 'sacred ideals' like owning black people. that is what it stands for mr jones.
you dumbfuck
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)5. Another gem : "Slavery benefitted the North more than the South..."
skip fox
(19,359 posts)6. WARNING!!! CAPTIONs at DU are creative!
But as CAPTIONERs we often try to channel the essence of what our subjects said or provide what we think they would have said if they thought they could get away with it. All for satiric purposes.
(ON a historical note, the argument about a gentlemen taking his property anywhere he wanted was actually made on the floor of the U. S. Congress in an attempt to make territories recognize and accept slavery. Before the Civil War of course.)
skip fox
(19,359 posts)7. Ben Jones is saying: "Hell, the Southern flag means pleanty of things like
unity and loyalty. . . . Aren't these obvious? . . . Plus it helps to move merchandise!"