This is a priceless bit of Americana (though sensitivos be warned: the n-word crops up once). Here are bibulous and dentally deprived Kentucky supporters of Hillary Clinton warning their countrymen against voting for Obama, on national security grounds. One thing's for sure: they ain't elitists!
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Vox populi, vox Dei, y'all... . As the friend who sent this to me says, "You have to love her racial sensitivity. This isn't about n---ers; it's about Ay-rabs."
UPDATE: Note well, though, that it wasn't the Patriotic Drunk Rednecks that caused the looming economic catastrophe, but their pinstriped betters on Wall Street, Capitol Hill and other seats of authority very far from Hooter Holler, or wherever they hail from.
UPDATE.2: I just took the video down after reading the following paragraph in a Wendell Berry essay about the rules of modern life:
1. Tolerance and Multiculturalism. Quit talking bad about women, homosexuals, and preferred social minorities, and you can say anything you want about people who haven't been to college, manual workers, country people, peasants, religious people, unmodern people, old people ,and so on.
I think the drunk rednecks in that video are fools, and I don't feel constrained by reverse political correctness into granting them a dignity that they don't deserve, given their words and behavior. Nevertheless, I take Berry's point, and withdraw the video. My apologies for having posted it.
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Thanks for removing that video, Rod.
Here's what Mother Teresa had to say on what our attitude should be toward those who face such problems:
"The fullness of our heart comes in our actions: how I treat the leper, how I treat the dying person, how I treat the homeless. Sometimes it is more difficult to work with street people than with the people in our homes for the dying because the dying are peaceful and waiting; they are ready to go to God. You can touch the sick and believe, or you can touch the leper and believe, that is the body of Christ you are touching, but it is more difficult when these people are drunk or shouting to think that this is Jesus in that distressing disguise. How clean and loving our hands must be to be able to bring compassion to them!"
Rod,
Let me second Sally's thanks for removing the video.
If you hadn't, I was going to have to stop reading the best blog on the web.
And now I don't have to.
You've shown yourself to be a mensch here.
Good for you.
Well, I hope you can see why I take an Ignatian (as in Reilly, not Loyola) approach to life. I am not really appalled at this, just very amused at the human condition. I wish somebody would post a video of drunken Upper East Side WASPs nattering on about politics. We could post a whole collection of them under the title, "In Praise of Folly."
Upper East Side WASP? Do they exist?
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
ill tell ya what bud ya ant no good ohl boy and when the crap hits the fan you and yours just like ya that ant never fished or hunted a day in ther life will be comein and guess what yaw stole frome us so keep that in mind ya concreate monky!!1
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