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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Come on folks, the Dukes of Hazzard wasn't *entirely* bad. Daisy Duke in her 'daisy dukes' ... agreeable backside ... spectacular ability at running in high heels ... blokes doing testicle-crunching physical things, like leaping into the 'General Lee' through the windows, in their cheescutter jeans ... sheriff's deputies with amusing names like Aenus and Cleetus ....

All right, it was a standard time-filler pisspoor 70s brainless show. But it was quite good, as standard time-filler pisspoor 70s brainless shows went, I felt. Much better than Knight Rider, though admittedly that wasn't particularly stiff competition.

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I really can`t believe that grown ups are whining about this.....

I think many people are tired of extremism... over-reaction...political correctness...and lack of tolerance. The majority of Americans DO NOT feel the battle flag is linked to racism. This over-reaction in attempts for big business and the media to NOT seem racists ...while at the same time they enslave their workers to minimum wage is not overlooked by the majority of Americans... and they are sick of it... I am.

Just as white America within reason must be sensitive to black America they need to do the same.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I have no idea what you are on about. It ran early 79 to early 85. there was a movie. It was all pretty bad junk. It was dumped as junk. The fad was over with mullets.

the reruns were pulled because the management of the corporation (people) decided to pull it. The market decided.

The rest is masturbation. Embrace your free market communism.

Some dickweeds howl at the moon, doesn't make it of any value.

But you're still lying. This has nothing to do with free markets and profits.

They pulled it not because of bad ratings and subsequent loss of revenue but because of the controversy over the Confederate Flag, as noted by TIME Magazine (unless you think they're lying?) and The Hollywood Reporter.

Bad as it was, Dukes of Hazzard was better that most of the new garbage on TV. This is just another example of pc gone wild.

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But you're still lying. This has nothing to do with free markets and profits.

They pulled it not because of bad ratings and subsequent loss of revenue but because of the controversy over the Confederate Flag, as noted by TIME Magazine (unless you think they're lying?) and The Hollywood Reporter.

Companies can be extraordinarily sensitive to bad publicity and this issue of the confederate flag was giving them that. The free market is like that: it translates people's likes and dislikes into (potential) profits and losses. That's what it's meant to do. It seems to me to be pretty useless to rage against that unless you want to control the basic mechanisms of the free market itself.

And then, what the fuck do you suppose the free market of communism is? CD, quit lying, you are hoisted upon your own petard, and now you look just plain foolish.


Yanno, if Time Magazine hadn't written that article that we were slipping razor blades into our apples, we still would be selling them, and razor blades would be as big a profit as cotton was in slavery days.....~Monsanto.....

Whatever.

Find a place where I lied and you can call me that.

The reasons for TVLand pulling Dukes of Hazzard were given in the sources I cited.

Cites for your claim?

Have any of those motherfuckers held a decent job since? Are they in the IDMb top 1 million TV shows of all time, even last place? Junk is junk. Time magazine MADE them do something? Yeah, I think we have enough lies. The timeslot filler got boosted due to free market communism. Embrace the communism, you do at all other instances.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee
I actually agree with you. The couple of times that I saw The Dukes of Hazard, it was awful. I don't remember the storyline, it was just awful. Don't know any of those other shows you mentioned as I am not much for TV, but I have been enjoying watching "Supernatural."

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Number 6: Where am I?
Number 2: In the Village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number 2: We want information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number 2: That would be telling. We want information... information... information.
Number 6: You won't get it.
Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6: Who are you?
Number 2: The new Number 2.
Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.
Number 6: I am not a number, I am a free man.


"Who is Number One?"
"You are Number Six"
"We want information"
"You won't get it!"
"By hook or by crook, we will..."

Be Seeing you...............

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

He may have hated it, but he wrote most of it, and originated it, produced it.

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Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.

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Americans would pick this battle over any other concern or issue facing America

I agree with his part of your post completely. The problems of African Americans in this country is NOT their local police departments... it is NOT fines for traffic offenses... it is NOT the battle flag of the Confederacy.... AND most certainly it is NOT the Dukes of Hazzard... Nothing will change until they realize and address the problems within their communities... Not imaginary discrimination that no one seems to be able to quantify but everyone claims is rampant.

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Who decides what a symbol means.

The people who originated it or those that want to re-define history and society to conform to their own tiny limited agenda driven world.

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This was just in my feed on facebook...

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Key phrase....on paper.
The north financed the slave trade.
Meade had to march directly from Gettysburg to put down race rights, that means mass lynching of black in NYC.
At least one Union prison camp (in Chicago) executed blacks who served with the south as they came into the camp.
The north wasn't fighting to free the slaves until they needed a propaganda move to play for the English and French.
During reconstruction they set blacks up as front men to take the blame for the things they did in the south deliberately promoting racism.

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Key phrase....on paper.
The north financed the slave trade.
Meade had to march directly from Gettysburg to put down race rights, that means mass lynching of black in NYC.
At least one Union prison camp (in Chicago) executed blacks who served with the south as they came into the camp.
The north wasn't fighting to free the slaves until they needed a propaganda move to play for the English and French.
During reconstruction they set blacks up as front men to take the blame for the things they did in the south deliberately promoting racism.

"The north financed the slave trade" - That is a bit misleading. Many individuals from northern colonies did for quite some time (Revolution --> just prior to the Civil War) (even after it was outlawed in the northern colonies)... But as far as I can tell, it ENDED before the Civil War. Saying "The North financed the slave trade" implies that while US soldiers were fighting Confederates, Northern States were sending ships to Africa for more slaves. Keep in mind, these were unscrupulous private businessmen, not state vessels.