Whoopi joins “The View” defends Vick, insults South.

Buzz watches The View?!

Buzz watches The View?!

And BTW, Whoopi, he’s not even from the DEEP South… Virginia is “Rim South” at best. My God, the people on this show are shockingly ignorant, not just of the South, but in general. Did y’all catch that part about cats in China?!

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Her name is Whoopi - can’t we just leave it at that? Either way, if I were black, I’d be pissed seeing that she essentially said that dogfighting (tortuing, etc) is a black thing. However, I’m not black, so I just think it’s funny.

I think her term was actually “in that culture”, so it could mean anything: African-Americans, southerners, doofuses. . . really, you can plug any of those terms into something as vague as what she said and make it applicable, can’t you?

Whoopi also seems to think all that Chinese do is eat cats, as well. Maybe if she took the time to have her coast to coast flight stop in some place other than LA or NYC, perhaps she would not have such a rediculous view of other cultures.

OMG - who told GodHatesTrash about the Pundit? Now he’ll ruin this too.

I have to point out that 99% of Peach Pundit’ers are from the Atlanta metro (with a Macon guy or two here and there). We often fall into the habit of viewing outer-Gwinnett, Henry, etc as being “rural”. Quite simply, it isn’t.

I went to high school and undergrad around Lake Blackshear in deep southwest Georgia. Quite simply put, Whoopi pretty much has a point. More dogs down there are abused than aren’t… literally kicking the sh*t out of a dog as a form of discipline is socially acceptable, and children torturing animals is a nostalgic rite of passage.

I had a fraternity brother whose family made a living raising roosters for cockfights. “Officially”, the gamecocks were only for use in Louisianna (the last state America to pass a cockfighting ban, which still doesn’t take effect until sometime next year). However, there were plenty of under-the-table cockfighting events held here in this state… and no doubt still are. That fraternity brother was one of the more popular students at the school.

Face facts… this isn’t a “Georgia blog”, it’s a “metro blog”. When you talk about the raw and the real of Southern culture, most people here have very little knowledge of what they speak.

And GodHatesTrash adroitly proves my point.

I didn’t know Whoopi was such an expert on the “deep South.” Give me a break. And just because Steve knows some South Georgia rednecks who kick their dogs doesn’t mean that this only happens in the South. NEWSFLASH: It happens all over this country–even up north–among people in rural and suburban communities who don’t see anything wrong with hurting an animal.

Whoopi was doing nothing more here than making excuses for Vick. He has no excuse. He knew dogfighting was illegal, and he knowingly participated. Even worse, he had no problem with torturing animals, inflicting severe pain while killing them. Whether or not this is “culturally accepted” does not change the fact that the ability to inflict torture on an animal without remorse is not far removed from doing the same to a fellow human. Torturing people is “culturally accepted” in some places within this country, too.

BTW Trash, all one must do is visit Kos for ten seconds to experience more whining from clueless libs than someone who thinks for himself can stand.

Thanks for the tip jsm - but I guess I’d rather watch the clueless and classless whinin’ here.

What exactly does the name ‘GodHatesTrash” mean? And how do you know that? Did he tell you himself? Did he define ‘trash’? Or did he leave you to define what ‘trash’ is exactly? I’m guessing that ‘trash’ is anything that you happen to disagree with. While your posts are marginally entertaining, I am sensing to cognitive dissonance here, particularly in reference to the ‘clueless and classless’ remarks, or can you point to some comment you’ve made that would give anyone an iota of a clue that you have class?

The Lord spoketh unto me, and He said verily unto me - “We hateth trash, in its myriad and various forms, especially human, and We chooseth you to be Our messenger on Earth. We chargeth you - disagree with the disagreeable. Smite the smug, the small-minded and the self-righteous. Hammer the hatemongering hypocrites with the sledgehammer of truth and justice. Bring them to their knees, (not in the mens room, please).”

((Like many religious folks (many with much bigger congregations spewing a whole lot more stoopidity) in Georgia, I guess you’d say I’m self-ordained, and I’ve found my own personal salvation. Praise the Lord!))

jsm et al, I agree. I am convinced there are more rednecks above the Mason-Dixon than below it.

Steve, I think it’s funny that you think you’re an expert on rural GA b/c you and your boys from the house saw some people kick the crap out of dogs. So, you’re an expert on rural South? Your time spent by taking body shots off of douchebag pledges’ girldfriends at the SAE house doesn’t mean jack. Get over it.

In all reality, though, who really cares? Whether its a common thing or not, I’d still be pissed if Whoopi was sterotyping black, Southerners, whomever, saying that dogfighting, cockfighting or whatever is a normal thing. Exceptions don’t constitute norms.

“Meanwhile, human beings are dying by the thousands every month in Iraq, and the very same people seem to be saying

Jsm, I know southrons have a tradition of only counting white folks as human beings, but if you include Iraqis as human beings, which I do, there are an average of over 40 civilian deaths due to war violence there.

40 times 30 (that’d be number of days in a month, Einstein) is twelve hundred, or eleventy eleven jazillion, for you hillbillies! Eleventy eleven jazillion is over a thousand…

Anyhow, back to you, Cletus.

Mexicans and Asians, I love generalizations.

BTW, I’m half Cuban. Does that make me Mexican in my own words?

I eat enough Media Noches to make me at the very least, 1/16th Cuban.

Maybe Whoopi will invite Ted Danson to do a little blackface for the viewers on her new show

Steve, I think it

Or Vidette, Jmac. And don’t forget big Philomath! I had a Come to Jesus experience in Philomath when I almost hit a cow on the way back from college one weekend. Terrifying.

that would be blonde hair and blue eyes…sorry

Juan Cole, the most visible American Middle East scholar, summarized it in a particularly vivid comment: “The US misadventure in Iraq is responsible [in a little over three years] for setting off the killing of twice as many civilians as Saddam managed to polish off in 25 years.” (That was last year, folks. The rate of civilian casualties went UP since then.)

David Brown, writing for the Washington Post reported: “A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 that would have not died if the invasion had not occurred.”

(That’d be elebenty-leben jamillion per month for you Georgia Repukes out there…)

I know you hillbillies want to hide from the blame, as usual, but you’re the ones that voted the Chickenhawk-in-Chief into office. He’s a calamity visited upon the rest of the union and the world by Dixie…

Thanks alot!

Trash, you can believe Cole and this team of epidemiologists if you want. No one else does.

Juan Cole is a historian.

oh well.

from a recent jsm post:

(BTW Trash, all one must do is visit Kos for ten seconds to experience more whining from clueless libs than someone who thinks for himself can stand.)

Pot to kettle.

Thanks for playing.

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