Is Morning Joe Confederate week finally over?

[maxrandb]

My God. They had Haley Barbour on this morning to cap off an entire week of watching hayseeds in Dumfuckistan 'Murika smoking cigarettes from a hole in their necks and bragging about how great a kisser their sisters are.

I think it was Haley Barbour, it might have been Boss Hog from Dukes of Hazard.

Hard to believe we lose elections to these asspickles, but I guess if you can't talk like you've got a softball size chunk of tobacco in your mouth, the majority in AL and MS consider you elitist.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. LOL!

[Quemado]

2. I was wondering the same thing myself

Joe S is the head of the never-Trumpers. His favorite whine is to reminisce over the Reagan years.

[sandensea]

3. While most are not that caricaturesque, it's amazing how many still obsess over the Civil War

"The South would've won," they insist to anyone who'll listen, "had it not been for nawthern aggression and ni***er treachery."

If you ever got the impression that Southern right-wingers hate Black people, they do - and the ingrained belief that they were somehow responsible for the Confederacy's loss, believe it or not, is probably the biggest reason why.

They've all brainwashed each other into thinking that (a) the Confederate cause was right (even holy), and that (b) Black treachery somehow gave the Yankees the necessary edge.

Having said that, please note that there are many exceptions to this rule. But among Southern Republicans, that's basically the situation.

[RGinNJ]

5. Wow, well said!

May I steel that?

[sandensea]

6. Sure!

I lived in Mississippi for several years, and saw this obsession at work.

I might add that it got a lot worse after Rush Lumpball became popular among Deep South listeners around '92/'93.

And yes, they hate Bill Clinton too. Southern right-wingers see him as the biggest traitor of all (and Hillary, as a pedantic carpetbagger).

Why, they're not exactly sure themselves - but being a "n***er lover" is what they seem to resent about him the most.

[RGinNJ]

8. Thanks,

I grew up in NYC we had our share too. However they didn't treat it as a Religion.

[sandensea]

9. You bet.

The best part is that states like Mississippi and Alabama are utterly dependent on federal spending.

The ones in Ole Miss (Haley Babour's alma mater) are probably the worst - and believe me, it would be nothing but a two-shack community college were it not for the "damn gummint."

[Goonch]

4. #eeehaw

[sandensea]

10. My favorite show as a little kid.

[mfcorey1]

7. Old Joe is as obssessed with the Clinton's as drumpf is with Obama. Sometimes I

count the number of times on his show he compares something to either Hillary or Bill in a negative way. Numerous! He has not change his stripes!

[JaneQPublic]

12. If you ever need a 6 a.m. drinking game...

...Joe's Clinton references would be ideal.

[brewens]

11. I couldn't understand a word of that gibberish. It's the white wingers that insist that English

should be spoken in this country so WTF? If it was my show, I'd be a smartass and run the text below every time a southerner was on!

[quickesst]

13. the most willfully ignorant group of people

... are the ardent drump supporters, but they better check their rearview mirror because there's another group that is closing in fast.

[appalachiablue]

14. Where do you think JoeScar is from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough

ETA, Georgia-born Scarborough graduated from Pensacola Catholic High School in Pensacola, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1985 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law in 1990. During this time he wrote music and produced CDs with his band, Dixon Mills, including the album "Calling on Robert E. Lee," and he also coached football and taught high school.

[Blue_Adept]

15. Did I miss something? I thought they only spent today down at Ole Miss

The rest of the week was in washington or new york.

Only saw the first hour but it was fun having John Meacham on set with everyone else. It was a looser and more jovial opening hour overall even with all the serious things going on.

[SharonClark]

16. LOL! You've got a way with words

[TomSlick]

17. I started to object to your generalizations about southerners but

OK, yeah, I live in "Dumfuckistan 'Murika."

[maxrandb]

18. I was too

Until they brought Haley Barbour on. He's a walking, talking generalization of "southerners"

To break the stereotyping, the south really needs to stop electing caricatures of the worst among them to positions of power.

[TomSlick]

19. True.

But the first step is to convince southerners that they are being played with "cultural issues" to vote against their best interests.