The Dukes Of Hazzard Had More Black Characters Than Friends And Seinfeld

Posted by | July 2, 2015 19:30 | Filed under: Contributors Media/Show Business Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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The ferocious but welcome tide against the Confederate flag these past weeks has much of the country, and almost all of the media, in a self-congratulatory mood, but on Wednesday, shit got real. While it’s easy to blast the banner of slavery and the folks who cling to defending it, there was genuine anguish over TV Land’s announcement that they would be pulling reruns of beloved 80s action-comedy The Dukes of Hazzard from its schedule.

In case you live in a cave, The Dukes of Hazzard was a show about two good old boys who were never meanin’ no harm, but who frequently ran afoul of the law while driving their Confederate flag-emblazoned hot rod the “General Lee.” Riding a late-Seventies wave of fascination with all things country, the show was a phenomenal hit, and remains a textbook example of the innocuous cultural attitude toward the Confederate flag that many Americans are having a hard time saying goodbye to.

News of TV Land’s decision hit Dukes actor John Schneider particularly hard, and his reactions have been, at turns, both poignant and stupid. On the latter count, he tweeted this message, comparing the Confederate flag to a Gold’s Gym logo:

In a video message on Youtube, the roots of Schneider’s agst were a little more clear, and a little more understandable…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

12 responses to The Dukes Of Hazzard Had More Black Characters Than Friends And Seinfeld

  1. amersham46 July 2nd, 2015 at 19:44

    but they did not have a “soup Nazi”

    • dave-dr-gonzo July 3rd, 2015 at 00:26

      They did, however, have muscle cars. They’re real, and they’re spectacular!

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  4. bpollen July 3rd, 2015 at 03:18

    Dukes was mindless pablum. I largely watched an episode until I saw Catherine Bach and Denver Pyle (I was fond of both – but for different reasons) and then would look for reruns of Bewitched or something. But “the flag of never getting over losing the Civil War” was definitely prominently displayed.

  5. rg9rts July 3rd, 2015 at 06:07

    I wouldn’t know ….never saw any of them

  6. GOP - Party of Neanderthals July 3rd, 2015 at 08:13

    Other than Affirmative Acton Ben Carson selling his book on FOX , I never see a black tv head on there

  7. Hirightnow July 3rd, 2015 at 08:42

    Throw this one to the RWers; there were also more depictions of corrupt police and corrupt Southern politicians on that show than ANY other program you can think of.

  8. Warman1138 July 3rd, 2015 at 08:51

    I wonder how much harm has been created from trying to emulate the car jumping stunts alone much less anything else

    • NoReplyNeeded July 4th, 2015 at 06:10

      I wonder how much harm the double negative in the song has created.

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  10. ChrisVosburg July 4th, 2015 at 15:37

    Sorry, but I’ll never forgive them Dukes for wrecking literally hundreds of perfectly good late sixties Dodge Chargers with their stupid jumping stunts.

    Actually, I was more of a mid-sixties GTO guy, but still–

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