HOLLYWOOD CAN’T HELP ITSELF …
We’ve watched NBC’s new White House-based comedy 1600 Penn a few times and it’s marginally funny. It’s also got hottie Jenna Elfman (and her insanely sleek body) going for it, so there’s that …
But as much as we’d love to lust over Elfman’s luscious limbs for a few seconds of screen time every Thursday evening, we won’t be watching 1600 Penn again.
Why not? Well, for starters the show is only funny because it’s got a funny fat kid in it. And once the funny fat kid schtick gets old, well … the sit-com falls apart, and has to start reaching for laughs via other, more convenient means.
For example, 1600 Penn became the latest television show to lampoon Southerners – and specifically residents of North and South Carolina – when Stacy Keach guest-starred as a wheelchair-bound U.S. Senator named Strom Thoroughgood (R-N.C.). A caricature meant to evoke the late segregationist Strom Thurmond, Thoroughgood is a corrupt, racist, anti-Semitic lawmaker who is hell bent on blocking a massive increase in funding for our nation’s failed government-run school system.
Unless his state gets some pork barrel spending, of course …
Beyond the underlying (and demonstrably false) implication that bigger government makes for better schools, 1600 Penn didn’t delve into specific education policy – and why should it have? It’s a comedy about a fat kid for crying out loud.
What it did delve into (and extensively reinforce) was the tired old stereotype that Southerners are nothing but a bunch of spiteful intolerants who are in turn led by a bunch of spiteful intolerants – particularly those of us residing here in the Carolinas. And particularly those of us who dare to question left-of-center policies embraced by Hollywood’s chosen one – U.S. President Barack Obama.
As if Thoroughgood wasn’t enough to reinforce the “All Southerners Are Backward” stereotype, 1600 Penn‘s producers offered up his wife “Bunny” – a dim-witted former debutante who capably advanced her own ditzy brand of intolerance toward single, unwed mothers.
Look, we’re not going to deny the existence of racism (and a lot of other – isms) in this “neck of the woods” – even amongst our elected officials – but the last time we checked South Carolina’s Indian-American governor had just appointed an African-American to the U.S. Senate.
In fact he’s the only African-American currently serving in the Senate.
Can a racist state do that?
Of course not … and while this website has been harshly critical of both Nikki Haley and Tim Scott on policy issues (and with good reason), the fact remains their ascension to these prominent posts is a rebuke of the Hollywood stereotype being advanced by 1600 Penn.
A lot of Carolinas’ residents are racist. Sure. But a lot more of them aren’t – making these stereotypes as antiquated as the racism 1600 Penn‘s producers are seeking to pin on us.
Having said that, we’re sure we could find a few folks in Oconee County willing to give 1600 Penn producer Josh Gad a proper Ned Beatty-style welcome in the event he decides to pay the Palmetto State a visit.
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86 comments
Who gives a crap anyways? Shitcoms are rarely funny.
True. It appears Will is one of the tens of people who still watch NBC when it isn’t showing the NFL.
They could get more laughs using Joe Wilson, the state idiot.
Don’t like being mocked?
Quit being so stupid, for a start.
I know! Why would anyone mock a state that continues to make nantional headlines for one fuck up after another? Hell, we have Sanford running for office again…
Hell, we got Joe Wilson IN office! What a joke.
Unfortunately, we are just so mockable.
Appointed, not elected.
Big difference…
And I hate to say it, an appointment that will make his election to the seat much more likely. There’s a difference between running against other similarly-qualified candidates and winning, and being given a head start via appointment.
It isn’t as solid as running as a regular incumbent, but it gives him enough of an edge to make his reelection a safe bet.
Also, if Haley had appointed Clyburn, I don’t think FITS would brag. lol…
fairly accurate I thought
Mark Sanford is running for Congress.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
How true!
…… SOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEE!
…. by way, Ned ain’t dead
No, but Zed’s dead.
Pretty much all mainstream entertainmnet (and alleged comedy) is based on Liberal Mythology and Cliches…
Unless you go Brain Dead and beleive their tired fables…it’s hrd to see it as funny….
If you think for yourself, there is not much for you in entertainment these days..
Au contraire, little man! Short of you having you own unreality show, there’s plenty of entertainment ’round here.
Big T, you obviously spend most of your day watching, listening to and reading entertainers, i.e. Beck, Rush, and Drudge.
There is no conservative mainstream comedy because “conservative comedy” has never been amusing.
Let’s see: Dennis Miller tried — unfunny.
Victoria Jackson — maybe before she left SNL and went to Crazytown.
At heart, “conservative comedy” is hateful, and no savvy businessman wants to waste his advertising budget.
Actually Seinfeld was so funny becuase it made fun of Liberals…even though the writers were libs…They just could not lay off all the easy material of leftwing idiots…
George riding the Handicapped Gravy Train (picking up his rascal and running w/ it.) Elaine trying to date a guy just becaue he was black, and it made her feel like she was special politically correct-trendy.
How ’bout how they made fun of Elaine’s Anti-Fur Crusade and-or being forced to wear the AIDs ribbon???
Man that was a GREAT show because it was honest about liberals and honest enough to sneak it by liberals too stupid to see themselves being made sport of…
During the Carter years, Jimmy was having some problems satisfying Roslyn due to the hostage crisis, OPEC, stagflation, etc. and decided to visit Strom, since Storm is known as quite a ladies man (he married his Beauty Queen wife when she was 16 and he was almost 80).
Hearing Jimmy’s problem, Strom says, ‘Well I tell ya what Jimmy. What I do is take my ‘thang’ and whack it against the bedpost three times: ‘whack, whack, whack’, then I go over to the nightstand, then again, whack my thang three times: ‘whack, whack, whack’. And I tell ya what Jimmy, it drives the ladies crazy.
Jimmy thanks Strom and heads back to the White House, and Roslyn’s is already in bed. So he follows Strom’s instructions, takes his ‘thang’ and hits it against the bedpost three times: ‘whack, whack, whack’, then he goes over to the nightstand, then again, three times: ‘whack, whack, whack’.
Then Roslyn leans over and says:
“That you Strom?”
Correction, Nancy was in her early twenties. That was before she lapsed into alcoholism.
Maybe I am too drunk this AM to fully comprehend what you have just written but I think I am sober enough to say you are Full of Shit.
You, this site, a significant number of those who comment have butt fucked just about anyone, anybody and anything including kids, the lame, the disabled and the blind.
Now that someone from Hollywood is butt fucking us we are to pick up up the clicker and turn them off.
Goddamn pussy.
If you ain’t got the gumption to take it up the ass after giving it up the ass, then shut down this site, turn your hat around, pick up your airless football and go somewhere you can keep the sand out of your damn vagina.
Awesome!
It’s 5:00 somewhere. And, hell, it’s FRIDAAAAY!!
You don’t need to apologise, sir.
You got dat right old cracker bastard.
Butt fuck everyone, dats what I say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZT1RVBo7SY
Sounds like the script might be based on what Will preaches daily. Crooked pols, imbred rednecks, overweight Walmart shoppers, all linked almost daily on FITS. There may be royalities due here Will, might want to have Nancy look into it. Being a red state doesnt help our cause either,with those left coast, Obama lapdog Hollywood idiots doing the screenwriting.
Strom Thoroughgood
Now thats Bad to the Bone.
Did you seriously say that SC isn’t a racist state? Don’t get out much, do you? Not only is SC a racist state, if you scratch anyone you’re going to find a racist under his/her skin. It’s all a matter of degree. And don’t use Nikki (not her real name) as an example of SC’s racial tolerance; she’s always billed herself and tried to pass herself off as white. Tim Scott has “TOKEN” stamped on his forehead. Ever go to church? Not too much mingling on Sunday morning. Don’t get all bent out of shape because somebody takes advantage of the “Kick Me” sign on our back.
Please bring back Seinfeld. Greatest show in the last 30 yrs because it made fun of liberals and showed them for the IDIOTS they are…
George milking handicapped, Gays forcing AIDS ribbons, Slutty behavior, Irrational Race guilt, Constant paranoia, Animal Rights nutjobs, Selfish narrcisits…….
And the libs were too stupid to realized they were being ridiculed…(or they would have shut it down)….
Even had several Nazi related themes…that probably gave you a quarter chub as well, Cliche Boy.
How you like the P!$$ Slap…S.R??…LMAO…
What they said! You write as if you think you’re the only one in the state with a functioning intellect and throw everyone who doesn’t agree with you (or line your pockets) under the bus. It IS funny that you take offense at a group of writers for making S.C. look bad. I’ll keep coming back for my daily dose of irony.
It is not Hollywood, but South Carolina that cannot help itself. A moron who shouts “You lie” during a presidential address, another who says he’s hiking the Appalachian trail when he is really in South America with his lover, and lest anyone forget, the fellow who was caught not once, but multiple times copulating with the horse he confessed his love for.
Was it bareback?
Sadly, the GOP did get destroyed by a dumb father and son from Connecticut. The weak vocabulary of George W. Bush fit right in with Texans so he bought a ranch in 1999, a year before he ran for president, and was rarely seen at the ranch. He will tell you about major US/world decisions made at the ranch but all that means is he was a cowboy making those decisions. Fixed Noise is doing the same thing while broadcasting from New York City. They care nothing about the southern way of life. They want us to be more like themselves. Ever wondered why Bush 43 was at an all black school on the morning of 9/11 teaching kids how to read, why he asked Colin Powell to lie to the U.N. about WMDs and why he chose the USS Abraham Lincoln to give his “Mission Accomplished” speech?…while little brother Jeb is about to run for prez. and speak fluent Spanish to another race they care nothing about? So Connecticut is setting the south up for more ridicule through stereotyping.
I hate the way the south gets portrayed but true racism, sexism and homophobia and all exists within the people doing the stereotyping. Politicians all sterotype people and try to keep them in a neat box so they can easily be controlled. Having said that, the name Strom Thoroughgood is quite accurate for a US senator from NC. Strom Thurmond was a lifelong democrat before switching to the GOP in 1964. Currently, NC was taken over by the GOP in 2010. A former NCGOP governor is leading the inquiry into massive academic fraud at UNC CHeat. Jim Martin reduced it all down to black football players and a black African-American Studies chair and his assistant. It took NC 50 years to do what SC did in 1964. Of course, all along the democrats in NC were the same redneck, racists who comprised a democrat party which began the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee.
Wasn’t the “rnbch” bought for him by a ultra-conservative faith based group?
I always enjoyed looking at the same two round bales of hay, in the background of EVERY photo op and press conference from the “ranch” for eight years.
Always wonder why he didn’t return to the “ranch” after his terms were over.
Get me a meeting w/ some TV execs, who would seriously consider my ideas for a show that is written from a balanced point of view…
I’d write a show STRONGLY politically incorrect…and the Lberals would HATE it…But it would PERFECTLY define you…and it would be FUNNY AS H#!!…
But you Gutless Cowards would assasinate me, that is IF I could find a TV Exec with enough B@!!$ to go against the Establishment Leftwing Culture…
How ’bout Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton Building a Habitat house and Jimma’ cathces Bill ‘Hammering’ something besides the drywall panels..
What about a take-off on Tio’s Imaginary girlfriend juxtaposed to Barack’s “Compaosite” Girlfreind he lied about…(whose imaginary girl is prettier, and they get in a fight) …LMAO…
Or: Barack Grandma kickin his @$$ with a broom after he called her: “A typical white woman.”
“I raise you fool”…I could hear her now…
Thre is a lot of great material left out there because Liberals are off-limits…
How the hell did you manage to spell “juxtaposed” correctly while simultaneously using it in the proper context?
Good one, Tonto. But don’t interrupt his mental break-down. This is just getting good.
“Get me a meeting w/ some TV execs, who would seriously consider my ideas for a show that is written from a balanced point of view…”
Homeland Idiot? Hmmm, just might work.
Shut up foo’.
The only TV show with you on it that anyone wants to watch is me lovingly strokin’ you while I tear up dat booty.
I’ll call it “Big T gets some prison love”, starring me.
Let me make sure I’m reading this right….you are complaining of a TV show that mocks Strom Thurmond as a racist segregationist who married a young wife. You further complain of offense even though for 60 years of his life he covered-up and hid from the public a child he fathered with the black housekeeper’s teenage daughter that under today’s age of consent law would have amounted to statutory rape?
Not to mention that he never met a federal expenditure that he couldn’t rale against for show and votes, but was the first Senator at the trough when federal largesse was being dispersed?
That just may be the richest of the your myriad of indignations.
I love how you delusional Leftwingers cannot accept the fact that a sista love that ol’ thang Strom was slidin’…
Yall are so attached to the myths about race and sex..yet when na sista got hung up on a white man…it’s all of a sudden RAPE…
Seems like ol’ Strom wwas messeginatin’ back when it weren’t Cool…
All these pee-ppe envy liberal effeminate men and Black men love to talk about subjegating white women…
But when a White man shows a little love, brown suga’ jus thad to have…your little fables fall apart…
If the shoe fits, FITS. This state is a racist, regressive shithole, forever stuck in antebellum days. An Indian-American Governor and an (appointed) African-American Senator changes nothing about the foundation of this cultural and political cesspool.
You love calling out people and institutions on their failings and hypocrisy but don’t seem to care for it in reverse. Suck it up, tough guy.
Your Black President insulted the Woman who raised him as a: TYPICAL WHITE WOMAN…He welcomed a White Cop-Killer Celebrant to the W.H….
Obama Dog Whistled to his Racist liberal Idiots w/: Vote for Revenge (against White people)…
Are you the most STUPID Mother-F^&*er in the World to be calling anyone RACIST…or what????
If you cannot afford your meds there are programs that can help. Do not break them in half and never, ever miss a day.
How many times a day do you Brain Dead Idiots use that weak @$$ Cliche a day????…
I bet even the Stupid of you are getting tired of it…
Dont need a sitcom for watching a bunch of morons. we have Joe Wilson to keep us entertained and to remind us how bassackwards some people are in SC.
I got an idea: How ’bout: a show on a Young Strom and his love-life…..
White Snake slides into a bag of Brown Shuga……
Dispelling some myths…LMAO…
You people like anything w/ Sex in it…and Strom was a Virle young dude..who was bridgin the racial divide…How better for the races to come together…???
Who’s in????…Ya like it???
WOW!
All this from a “professional journalist”!
YOU BETCHA!
YOU BETCHA!
So you like dwb….
You people are all about re-living the past…here’s one of those forbidden love stories you wax so longingly for…
An interracial relationship before it was trendy…
You’d watch..or are you RACIST???
Hey, BigTed Zaczynski wrote a badass manifesto. I thought they caught his ass…
Hate to tell you big idio”T”, but a lot of us knew this years before it was exposed. Ya’ see, old Strom, was somewhat of a local legion.
Bet ya’ didn’t know that his last wife has suffered from alcoholism her entire adult life, did ya”?
After she and Strom became estranged she even tried to get him to appoint her “new beau” , a doctor, to a federal position.
Didn’t know that either did ya’?
How about the time she was arrested for DUI by an Aiken city officer outside the city limits?
Didn’t know about that either did ya?
Did ya know old Strom was 42 years old when WWII started?
Did ya’ know he didn’t have to serve due to his age, but VOLUNTEERED for airborne and rode the gliders into Normandy on D-Day?
I think you don’t know too much,just an IGNORANT shit for brains!
YOU BETCHA!
YOU BETCHA!
White Snake slidin’ into a little Brown Shuggah…
You guys are into interracial relationships. You’re liberals …or are yall against a show on the young Strom Gettin’ his Freak on w/ a ready and willing hot and taut little sista???
White men have a good comparatively record of stability…the union would be good for the community…and that’s what it’s all about…
Would you watch the show????..Answer please…
Laughing at us goobers is old hat.
From the master:
The classic
http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/mencken.pdf
And possibly even more biting, his “The South” (Chapter 11 I believe) in his Chrestomathy.
http://rapidlibrary.com/files/a-mencken-chrestomathy-his-own-selection-of-his-choicest-writing-pdf-pdf_ulcc9ttfvqi9ron.html
But we all would be laughing too had Stacy (Mike Hammer) Keach been called “Sen. Jesse Hulmes (R-NC).”
This very website highlights mockworthy behaviours on a regular basis!
“Can a racist state do that?”
Fuck yes. Sending an Uncle Tom (what’s the female Indian equivalent?) to office /= “sudden change of heart” regarding racism in general.
Also, many White candidates have been so spectacularly asstastic that they drive voters AWAY from them.
Any political cesspool in SC must include Joe (do nothing for jobs) Wilson. What a loser.
Michelin, Amazon Nephron and TWC is in SPRINGDALE (Where Joe lives)…you freakin imbecile…Thousands of new jobs…
All in Wilson’s district..He may have brought more jobs there than any other county in America in the last year or so…you F*#*in IDIOT….
Also, be sure to take your meds with a full glass of water.
Joe Wilson did nothing, nothing at all to bring any of those companies to SC or expand. He opposed Amazon jobs until the public sentiment was in favor and the chamelion changed his position. Lex county chambers and biz people are behind all this activity to grow jobs. Actually, they all despise Wilson for his “Joe Means Jobs” slogan when he is AWOL in economic development activity and he and his district butt boy Butch Wallace are unreliable and don’t support biz development. Get your facts straight, T.
Tammy is correct. Wilson and Wallace are not a part of the economic development engine in The Second District and definitely had no role in Nephron, Amazon, Michelin, TWC. Wilson is notorious for not supporting the large employers in his district. He’s a joke. Only job he’s for is his own.
I LOVE to SLAP the P!$$ out of Iiberals w/ TRUTH…
IOW: “YOU LIE”…Hahahahahaha…
F*#^!n’ idiots…More jobs have come to Joe Wilson’s small District in 18 months than Obama can muster in 4.5 yrs…
Why do you think Congress is GOP???…the small districts can isolate from the media bias and federal failure…and actually SUCCEED…like Lexington Co. does…
If you can spit in the face of the Left…you can prosper to some degree…even in Obama’s Horrible economy…
Of course we won’t really get going until that stupid Some beech is gone from Wash.
LMAO…Facts SUCK don’t they, if you’re a lib…
BigT, I see you buying pork and beans at the Piggly Wiggly every Thursday, and frankly, you’ve never given me the time of day…
Yeah, I know the feeling, Truth.
Keystone Pipeline, Solyndra and taxing Coal out of business w/ the boot on the Neck of a Major Oil Co…..
Is that the TRUTH and Obama Jobs programs you’re comparing to Joe Wilson???
That said: The PEOPLE (not politicians) of Lex-Co are why companies are coming. They are Conservative and beleive in work not a hand-out…the men marry the mothers and pay to raise their children, not the gov’t paying…
The County Council is flirting w/ becoming like liberal RichCo…and ruining it all….
The non-election of 2012 (ballot fiasco) has emboldened the LexCo Council to act like liberals…
It will be a blood bath in the next election if they don’t stop raising taxes.
I know The Truth, not you.
another political prediction from the village idiot/asshole = priceless. The same certified coward and pussy who calls everyone names and hasnt picked a single correct political election is now gracing us with another..you guessed it..another political prediction..ROFLMAO as if a single person places an ounce of value in your ignorant, racist comments you fucking idiot.
I watched the first show and it was pretty funny and since I am a “leg man” the woman does have a great set of legs. Being damn near 60, I didn’t know who she was and the actor playing prez looks a lot older than he did in “Independence Day” (GREAT escapist flick – BTW – just sit back with some popcorn & root beer and enjoy!!!)
That being said, and since I am a quasi-southner by birth and upbringing I’m not overly sensitive about southern stereotypes. Every region’s got them: northeastern Mafia types,southern/rural hicks,midwestern farmer dips,western/LA “The Dude” types (gotta love “the Great Lebowski”).
So all in all, chill out, have a beer, get laid and don’t get your panties in a wad FITS.
Since I missed this episode, hopefully I can watch it online. I would’ve missed it if FITS wasn’t raising hell about it.
Thanks for letting me know!!
None of these companies are in Springdale but they are in Wilson’s district. Joe has no interest in businesses whatsoever and no involvement in these companies. Joe was nowhere to be found in the Amazon expansion debates but he loves to take credit for the 3000 jobs there and 5000 in SC. Nephron and TWC all done without his involvement nor was it solicited because he’s useless. He’s a fucking moron.
FACTS SUCK if you’re a liberal…
More jobs in Wilson’s district in 18 months than Obama created in 4,5 years…
Sucks to be yall..don’t it?
More jobs in Wilson’s district but no thanks to him. As someone else posted, Wilson is AWOL on economic development and supporting businesses in his district. You are correct, T, that it is the people of Lex county and schools why businesses are going there. The county council is a bunch of tax lovers with no clue how to control pending and no desire to learn. No wonder the business community has had to assume development in Lexington since there is no political leadership whatsoever. They’re either out pimping, chasing whores, gambling or just finding ways to enrich themselves. A sad state of affairs for sure.
you mean facts like your election guarantees and predictions..lolololol you fucking idiot. The racist cowardly pussy of a man is still on this site? what after the utter humiliation of your insults, political predictions and the last election results and the compelling record of 0-64 any man with any self respect would have gracefully bowed out of commenting..but alas no: we are stuck with pussy boy..T
dumb as fuck tv show
no.south carolina is as cool as it gets,but keep the ‘low self-esteem’ shit going…we don’t want any more those assholes finding out,and coming down,although those in the know,KNOW,there’s no better place to be…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti9C2WDL0Rc
Great work on those drums, 6″.
Liberals hate everybody except those who buy into and join them in their self loathing hatred, racism and bigoted mindset.
ahh look t is posting under another name…Bible says the lord blesses the ignorant so I assume you guys are about as blessed as it comes..
Funny CS!
Alan/bigT, how does it feel to fit the same psychological profile as The Unabomber and Tim McVeigh?
Common Sense
I speak the truth and all you do is to claim I am some other person. Liberals are racists and bigots, history has shown that since 1860s. All liberal suffer from the mental illness called projection.
Isotope soap, how is it I fit the psychological profile as the Unabomber and Tim McVeigh? Got any truth or just false accusations.
What do you two call black conservatives and why? And does that not make you racists and bigots? Please back up your response with something truthful.
Your statement:
“Liberals hate everybody except those who buy into and join them in their self loathing hatred, racism and bigoted mindset.”
From the Unabomber’s manifesto:
“Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled
society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of
our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can
serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern
society in general.”
” Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong,
good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western
civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality.”
Am I making a reaching correlation here?
Republicans love their tokens better than anything…until they show they can think, as Colin Powell just did.
Of course, most GOPers don’t think that much so it shouldn’t be much of a problem for them.
South Carolina deserves to be lampooned. (They elected Nicki Haley didn’t they?!?)
FITS – If you are just now figuring out that South Carolina is the laughingstock of the rest of the country then you are stupider than I already think you are.
Jim DeMint – Joe Wilson – Mark Sanford – Whatever the first name is of that Ravenel guy who got caught dealing coke – Lt. Governor Andre Bauer – should I go on?
Well the did want to name it 1600 Penis, but el Slick (Mr. Hilary Rodham Clinton to us) insisted that was his idea.