Worst responses to MLK, Jr. Day

[Michchamp]

pathetic right-wing attention whore, and convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza has spent most of the day tweeting various awful things about MLK Day... this is the worst, I guess.

If you're trying to "reach out" to minorities for the next election cycle, is it really that hard to just let this day go by without saying anything? Or at least tweet some bland thing about MLK being a good guy, and leave it at that?

It's like a combination of them being too racist to help themselves & knowing that pandering to their racist base is just too politically easy, to even care.

 

[tinselwolverine]

pathetic right-wing attention whore, and convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza has spent most of the day tweeting various awful things about MLK Day... this is the worst, I guess.

If you're trying to "reach out" to minorities for the next election cycle, is it really that hard to just let this day go by without saying anything? Or at least tweet some bland thing about MLK being a good guy, and leave it at that?

It's like a combination of them being too racist to help themselves & knowing that pandering to their racist base is just too politically easy, to even care.

Woo haaaaahhhh!

 

[Michchamp]

I have my suspicions, but I have to admit I don't know exactly where them Duke Boys stood on the issue of MLK's birthday being a national holiday.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I have my suspicions, but I have to admit I don't know exactly where them Duke Boys stood on the issue of MLK's birthday being a national holiday.

There were no Duke Boys.

There were just actors who played the Duke Boys.

All the actors who played the Duke Boys were rich Hollywood liberals who absolutely stood with former Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan when he (he was the president at the time, so he had the authority to do the kind of stuff like this) declared Martin Luther King Day a national holiday.

And I am thankful for the day off.

On a side note - that Johnny Knoxville - the one who played the dark haired Duke Boy in the film with Jessica Simpson as the sister in the painted on Levi shorts? - that guy is one psychotically twisted fucker.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I have my suspicions, but I have to admit I don't know exactly where them Duke Boys stood on the issue of MLK's birthday being a national holiday.

Instead of the worst response, how about Reading Rainbow? They're back with an MLK book-video...from their app...so book-app-video...I don't know, it's a media thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-RyrakaQM

 

[Gulo Blue]

How did that car get up in the air that high?

 

[Michchamp]

How did that car get up in the air that high?

velocity + inclined plane.

In high school physics we learned how to calculate that sort of thing... you take the velocity of the car, the angle of the jump, force of gravity, run it through a formula, and what not.

 

[Michchamp]

Instead of the worst response, how about Reading Rainbow? ...

I don't know.

 

[tinselwolverine]

velocity + inclined plane.

In high school physics we learned how to calculate that sort of thing... you take the velocity of the car, the angle of the jump, force of gravity, run it through a formula, and what not.

Yah.

Or maybe it was kinda like a little bit of, ya know, Hollywood Magic?

 

[Gulo Blue]

velocity + inclined plane.

In high school physics we learned how to calculate that sort of thing... you take the velocity of the car, the angle of the jump, force of gravity, run it through a formula, and what not.

That's not going to turn a car into an airplane. Just look at that thing, majestically soaring over those rednecks!

 

[Michchamp]

Yah.

Or maybe it was kinda like a little bit of, ya know, Hollywood Magic?

I always wondered about it too. As a little kid, I was a huge fan of this show, but my dad ruined it for me, by talking about how unrealistic the stunts were ("those guys would be dead or severly injured if they really did that, Champ...")

apparently they went through 309 Dodge Chargers during the making of the show (see also, mythbusters covered this (Myth 1, here)), but it got to cost prohibitive. From wiki: "Warner Bros. purchased several Chargers for stunts, as they generally destroyed at least one or two cars per episode. By the end of the show's sixth season, the Chargers were becoming harder to find, and more expensive. In addition, the television series Knight Rider began to rival the General Lee's stunts. As such, the producers used 1:8 scale miniatures, filmed by Jack Sessums' crew, or recycled stock jump footage ? the latter being a practice that had been in place to an extent since the second season, and had increased as the seasons passed."

Jalen Rose bought one of 4 remaining original General Lees from the show, had the Confederate Flag painted over, changed the number to his jersey # at Michigan (05), and auctioned it off with the proceeds going to benefit the school he started in Detroit, all of which was pretty awesome, when you think about it. Take that, racists.

 

[Gulo Blue]

So this must be a model then. Whew.

 

[Gulo Blue]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4W7E5BlLGM

 

[Michchamp]

I like the ones where they hit something as they land the jump (RV trailer, barn... brick building!?!?!?!), with no consequences, or especially the one where they land on another, moving car... like anyone is walking away from that.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I like the ones where they hit something as they land the jump (RV trailer, barn... brick building!?!?!?!), with no consequences, or especially the one where they land on another, moving car... like anyone is walking away from that.

I like when they show it up to the 1st tire just touching the ground and then cut it; you know that car didn't make it. Check 6:10, the dummy's head is slipping out of the window and smacks the door as it lands.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I always wondered about it too. As a little kid, I was a huge fan of this show, but my dad ruined it for me, by talking about how unrealistic the stunts were ("those guys would be dead or severly injured if they really did that, Champ...")

apparently they went through 309 Dodge Chargers during the making of the show (see also, mythbusters covered this (Myth 1, here)), but it got to cost prohibitive. From wiki: "Warner Bros. purchased several Chargers for stunts, as they generally destroyed at least one or two cars per episode. By the end of the show's sixth season, the Chargers were becoming harder to find, and more expensive. In addition, the television series Knight Rider began to rival the General Lee's stunts. As such, the producers used 1:8 scale miniatures, filmed by Jack Sessums' crew, or recycled stock jump footage ? the latter being a practice that had been in place to an extent since the second season, and had increased as the seasons passed."

Jalen Rose bought one of 4 remaining original General Lees from the show, had the Confederate Flag painted over, changed the number to his jersey # at Michigan (05), and auctioned it off with the proceeds going to benefit the school he started in Detroit, all of which was pretty awesome, when you think about it. Take that, racists.

God damn.

Your dad ruined the Dukes of Hazzards while simultaneously attempting to ruin moderate centrist/liberalism for you.

It's no wonder you're so fucked up.

I just want to hold you in my arms and hug you.

 

[Michchamp]

I like when they show it up to the 1st tire just touching the ground and then cut it; you know that car didn't make it. Check 6:10, the dummy's head is slipping out of the window and smacks the door at it lands.

hahaha, ok, very good.

Say, not that I care if you hijack my thread, but on the original topic, have you seen any poor responses to MLK Day in person, being that you live a lot closer to "Hazzard County" than I do?

 

[Michchamp]

God damn.

Your dad ruined the Dukes of Hazzards while simultaneously attempting to ruin moderate centrist/liberalism for you.

It's no wonder you're so fucked up.

I just want to hold you in my arms and hug you.

eh... that's okay.

My dad was more moderate back then. He was pretty apolitical during the 80's. He actually voted for Perot in '92. it was only after that election that he started listening to Rush Limbaugh, and my grandparents (who would've voted for Mussolini if they could) got him a subscription to Rush's "Conservative Chronicle." It was all downhill from there.

In the 80's, the GOP hadn't officially adopted ignorance & anti-intellectualism as party planks, so he could mock the stupidity of The Dukes of Hazzard, pro-wrestling, Christianity, etc. and other such opiates of the masses, without any cognitive dissonance between his politics.

He couldn't do the same from the late 90's on, but by then, I was on my own any ways, and I generally avoid the topic with him.

 

[Gulo Blue]

hahaha, ok, very good.

Say, not that I care if you hijack my thread, but on the original topic, have you seen any poor responses to MLK Day in person, being that you live a lot closer to "Hazzard County" than I do?

No. BUT, don't forget, I don't just live in any part of the south, I live here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.396676727027587.103646.100000557895928&type=3&l=d28fc4d65d

If I drive out of town a ways, I can find a Confederate flag, but I can also go months without seeing one.

Actually, instead of something silly, I should probably mention that part of Durham was once known as "Black Wall Street." Somewhere there's a W.E.B. DuBois essay (so, well before MLK) that praises Durham's race relations.

 

[tinselwolverine]

hahaha, ok, very good.

Say, not that I care if you hijack my thread, but on the original topic, have you seen any poor responses to MLK Day in person, being that you live a lot closer to "Hazzard County" than I do?

Anyway, Champ; I can respond to this; the fair minded civil rights attorney Leo Terrell gave resounding praise as to the contributions that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. made to society today on radio station 790 KABC Los Angeles.

Except for the example in your OP and then me subsequently juxtiposing a photo of Dr. King riding in the General Lee (or as close as I could have come up with) I can't think of anything that was a poor response.