Was watching Country Music TV, can anyone explain this

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The south is called the Bible Belt and they vote solid Repugnican.
The Repugnicans are for family values and morality yada yada yada. But, they also like country music and country videos are all about drinking, cheating, putting a boot up someones ass and they have scantily dressed women. Yet these assholes are offended at things like the Janet Jackson incident or Howard Stearn?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Its called Hypocrisy ... something they don't realize .

[NightTrain]

8. Hmm.... Great minds really DO think alike!

:hi:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

15. Great minds indeed :)

:hi: back @u :)

[NightTrain]

2. It's called hypocrisy.

Conservatives are really, really good at it!

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6. I guess so it's like that list I saw recently about the things

you have to believe to a Conservative today.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I work in a place that has Country Music, c.2004...

On the radio all day. One thing I can say with certainty is that like most other popular music that is on the radio, it appeals to the lowest common denominator in listeners. It panders. It fawns. It is very good at what it does.

Most of it also really, really sucks. Just like any other form of popular, radio-based music.

I guarendamntee that you will NOT hear any Steve Earle on ANY Country Music station. Full stop.

[NightTrain]

10. My buddy Jim was the overnight man at Hartford's country station...

...until ClearChannel replaced him with a computer in 1999. To Jim's enduring credit, he passionately despised the music he had to play.

One of the more amusing stories Jim told me involved a friend of his who worked as an account executive at Hartford's oldies station, WDRC. Whenever a potential client was having trouble deciding whether to advertise on WDRC or on Country 92.5, Jim's friend would take the guy to a function sponsored by the latter. He allowed the potential client to see for himself who attended the Country 92.5 events and asked, "Are these the kinds of people you want to do business with?"

Invariably, the advertiser signed with WDRC! :evilgrin:

[BlackVelvetElvis]

4. Some of my mother's family

Drank to excess, cheated on their wives, beat the hell out of their kids, wound up in jail on occaision and voted Dem every time.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. See. You don't get IT. That is their idea of family values

Men have all the power and can do what they want in their little world, that is what they mean by "traditional" family values.

Man, get with the NeoCon program!

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

7. You are making some false assumptions.

"The south" is not, despite what many of our resident bigots will tell you, is not a uniform entity with one set of thoughts, feelings, or preferences.

To address your questions more directly:

There are many types of conservatives. Religious ones usually listen to only religious music. They would not be watching CMT.

The type of conservative who's heavily into country music is more of the type who are conservative mostly because they think the Democrats will take away their guns, heavily tax their booze and cigarettes, and give their children abortions in school.

This is in stark contrast to the type of conservative who believes in forcing religion on people, persecuting gays, etc.

My family is full of both types. The religious ones sound like this:

"Homosexuality is an abomination before God! We must root them out of our public institutions!"

The other types sound like this:

"I don't give a shit if so-and-so is gay. As long as he don't grab my ass, I don't got no problem with him and his boy-friend er whatever the hell you're supposed to call it."

Hope that helps.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. And if anyone should know, Walt Whitman should! n/t

[Bertha Venation]

11. thank you for saving me the trouble of a reply

Not even the true story of a Southern California city girl wed to a hillbilly woman from eastern Appalachia -- the daughter of loving Tennessee Southern Baptist Democrats -- can get everyone to stop stereotyping southerners. Or Christians, for that matter.

[NightTrain]

12. My family is full of both types of conservatives, too.

That's why I haven't been in touch with them since my father died six-and-a-half years ago!

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I guess I have been brainwashed by the media I picture

the majority of southerners going to church several times a week and when they are home they watch Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell all day.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

17. ROFLMAO

That's about as accurate as the idea that feminists spend all day trying to talk pregnant housewives into having abortions, that gay men spend all day parading around in leather S&M outfits, that the average environmentalist would kill a human to save an owl, or that the average Democrat sits home all day on welfare smoking pot. :7

[Kierkegaard]

13. Typical

Very commonplace in the south.

I remember when I worked in radio back in the early 80's, a pastor in my tiny little town beat up his wife and locked her and his infant son out of the house. This town is one of those that is so small that everyone knows everyone else, and I happened to know both of the highway patrolmen who lived there and had investigated the incident. They both confirmed to me that this had actually happened, and in addition, the problem appeared to be drug related.

I posed the idea of digging into the story a bit more, and airing it, to the owner of the station(who was also chairman of the city council.) I was completely shocked at his open hostility. I was threatened with losing my job if I were to speak a word about it. It never received coverage in the newspapers or any other media as far as I know. Hello selective journalism!

All the immoral or unethical things the south is averse to and that they openly despise about other areas of the country, happen right there under their noses, but they do their level best to make sure no one ever hears about it.

Moral superiority through obfuscation.

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14. It's like the old song The Harper Valley PTA

[Kierkegaard]

16. You betcha!

I could have saved a lot of typing if I had thought of that!

I should put something straight, though. There are a lot of really nice people in the south and I certainly didn't intend to paint them all as hypocrites.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Let's not forget, this was one of Loretta Lynn's biggest hits

You wined me and dined me when I was your girl
Told me if I'd be your wife you'd show me the world
But all I've seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearin' down your brooder house because now I've got the pill

All these years I've stayed at home while you had all your fun
And every years that's gone by another baby's come
There's gonna be some changes made right here on nursery hill
You've set this chicken your last time cause now I've got the pill

This old maternity dress I've got is going in the garbage
The clothes I'm wearing from now on won't take up so much yardage
Miniskirts hot pants and a few little fancy frills
Yeah I'm making up for all those years since I've got the pill

I'm tired of all your crowing how you and your hens play
While holding a couple in my arms another's on the way
This chicken's done for up her nest and ready to make a deal
And you can't afford to turn it down cause you know I've got the pill

This incubator is overused because you've kept it filled
The feeling good time's easy now since I've got the pill
It's gettin' dark it's roostin' time and that's too good to be real
Oh daddy don't you worry now cause momma's got the pill
Oh daddy don't you worry now cause momma's got the pill

[norml]

19. The greater the sin,the greater the salvation.

As long as you make sure to condem what you've done,even while doing it,it's OK. :evilgrin: