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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 01:26 AM
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Moral Values and the HOOTERS connection!!!!

Hooters of America

$51,300 Amount Given

4% Democrat

96% Republican
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 01:27 AM
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1. Ew, now they even have HOOTERS frozen dinners.
How sad. Their goal is total world domination; every potential product one could want being available from the HOOTERS brand.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 02:38 AM
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3. Why do I associate "hooters" with
mullets?
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freeplessinseattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 02:30 AM
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2. ha, interesting! well, it is a *family* restaurant after all, so they say
they're's one a few blocks from me, dropped in with an enclave of nicer, night-out-on-the-town restaurants, guess they want to appeal to all tastes, but it sure takes away from the other tasteful places overlooking the lake!
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hinachan Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 02:43 AM
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4. The Hooters folks voted their morals, all right....
That's why we still have two boobs in the White House! :puke:
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 10:37 AM
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9. Yes, those rightous Christains
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 02:51 AM
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5. How much is that
per hooter?
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kazlab67 Donating Member (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 03:00 AM
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6. Hooters, Mullets and Nascar
The American Dream in Bushland!
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checks-n-balances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 08:03 AM
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7. Indeed, the joke is on us if we believe all they say about "moral values"
Edited on Sun Nov-14-04 08:04 AM by demo@midlife
and GOP operatives will be "hooting" about that for a long time (sorry, bad pun)!

Here's a great related article:

FRANK RICH
On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide
Published: November 14, 2004

FAREWELL to Swift boats and "Shove it!," to Osama's tape and Saddam's missing weapons, to "security moms" and outsourced dads. They've all been sent to history's dustbin faster than Ralph Nader memorabilia was dumped on eBay. In their stead stands a single ambiguous phrase coined by an anonymous exit pollster: "Moral values." By near universal agreement the morning after, these two words tell the entire story of the election: it's the culture, stupid.

<snip>

If anyone is laughing all the way to the bank this election year, it must be the undisputed king of the red cultural elite, Rupert Murdoch. Fox News is a rising profit center within his News Corporation, and each red-state dollar that it makes can be plowed back into the rest of Fox's very blue entertainment portfolio. The Murdoch cultural stable includes recent books like Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" and the Vivid Girls' "How to Have a XXX Sex Life," which have both been synergistically, even joyously, promoted on Fox News by willing hosts like Rita Cosby and, needless to say, Mr. O'Reilly. There are "real fun parts and exciting parts," said Ms. Cosby to Ms. Jameson on Fox News's "Big Story Weekend," an encounter broadcast on Saturday at 9 p.m., assuring its maximum exposure to unsupervised kids.

<snip>

It's in the G.O.P.'s interest to pander to this far-right constituency - votes are votes - but you can be certain that a party joined at the hip to much of corporate America, Mr. Murdoch included, will take no action to curtail the blue culture these voters deplore. As Marshall Wittman, an independent-minded former associate of both Ralph Reed and John McCain, wrote before the election, "The only things the religious conservatives get are largely symbolic votes on proposals guaranteed to fail, such as the gay marriage constitutional amendment." That amendment has never had a prayer of rounding up the two-thirds majority needed for passage and still doesn't.

<snip>

If the Republican party's next round of leaders are all cool with blue culture, why should Democrats run after the red? Received Washington wisdom has it that the only Democrat who will ever be able to win a national election must be a cross between Gomer Pyle and Billy Sunday - a Scripture-quoting Sun Belt exurbanite whose loyalty to Nascar does not extend to Dale Earnhardt Jr., who was fined last month for saying a four-letter word on television.

More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/14rich.html

Edited to correct grammar
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LosinIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 08:27 AM
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8. Did you know that Hooters does random drug tests???
Isn't that the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard?
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