Look away, Jesusland.
Nothing much to add here: it just seemed that, as frequently as Haley Barbour is being verbally conjoined with the fictional Boss Hogg these day (this from Forbes sums it up.) --
-- someone needed to Photoshop him good and proper and for the Permanent Record.
Day 2 of Haley “I’m not really a Boss Hogg Old Southern Racist” Barbour Scandal Hits
Rather like anyone running for national office who bears an uncannily accurate resemblance to, say, Charles Manson might want to avoid staring psychotically into the camera while talking longingly about the benefits of a race war...Barbour was so perfectly tailor-made for the Boss Hogg comparison it seems pretty obvious that if he wanted to make the jump to the Big Job on Pennsylvania Avenue, the One Thing it sorta behooved him not to do was open his pie hole and start singing paeans to the good old days of Jim Crow and Judge Lynch.
And yet like so many of his ilk who have simply lobotomized their inconveniently despicable pasts away by steeping their souls in endless, soothing Conservative lies about a glorious, honorable, soft-focus Southern Past that Never Fucking Happened, Barbour seems to have just plain forgotten that the Disneyssippi fictions about the Life and Times of the Boy From Yazoo were 100% bullshit.
100% easily-disproven bullshit.
And so open his pie hole Barbour did.
And out came the crazy.
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Bingo. Thanks.
145 years later and STILL fighting their damned war for slavery.
I always wondered what the "Look Away, Dixieland" thing meant. Turns out it means "Avert Your Eyes from this Cesspit for Neolithic Barbarity Thinly Disguised as Gentility". Who knew?
Are there any good books out there (SciFi) showing what would have happened to the USA if the South had won?
KWillow,
"Bring the Jubilee" is the first, but hard to find. "Guns of the South" is the best by far.
@KWillow: Harry Turtledove has a whole series of such books starting with How Few Remain.
Guns of the south; time travelers apparently from South Africa bring GEN Lee and his army AK-47's
How few remain; GEN lee wins the Civil war on his own, years later when the CSA tries to annex parts of Mexico into the CSA, another war breaks out driving the USA closer to Imperial Germany.
The Great War trilogy; WWI fought between the USA and CSA.
there are others after that, detailing a fascist dictator who takes over down south. I dont believe the Confederacy would have lasted long as an independant nation. Everything that you hear conservatives claiming they want in government was tried by the confederates, the nations only 100% conservative government, and it failed miserably. They would have come under the direct influence of France and Great Brittain in the end.
Great pic of Boss Hogg, I cant tell if it's the actor who played Hogg or Barbour-pole himself.
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