Redneck Family Values
Coming fast on the release of the police recording revealing (to the four or five people in the world who didn't get it yet) what a pack of low life trash the former Republican vice presidential nominee and her family are, is this tragic news:
And here he is. Of course, giving that it's Mama June we're talking about here, maybe that's the best she could do.
In a fine display of how seriously this sort of person really takes the endlessly repeated right wing blab about "family values," the adorable "Mama June" dumped the father of Honey Boo Boo a few months ago, and now has taken up with this guy, who just got out of prison for "forcing oral sex" on an eight year old. The victim is apparently some sort of relative of Mama June, just to give things a little more of that trailer-trash flavor.
For the record, I've seen five minutes of the show, during which a pig pooped on their dining table while they were getting ready for dinner, so I am no expert, but I am distressed at the way that right wingers make people like these worthless low-lifes, or the Duck Dynasty con men, or Sarah Palin's trashy family out to be exemplars of what it means to be a real American.
"TLC has pulled the plug on its hit reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo after reports surfaced that star "Mama June" Shannon is dating a convicted child molester, Mark McDaniel."
In a fine display of how seriously this sort of person really takes the endlessly repeated right wing blab about "family values," the adorable "Mama June" dumped the father of Honey Boo Boo a few months ago, and now has taken up with this guy, who just got out of prison for "forcing oral sex" on an eight year old. The victim is apparently some sort of relative of Mama June, just to give things a little more of that trailer-trash flavor.
For the record, I've seen five minutes of the show, during which a pig pooped on their dining table while they were getting ready for dinner, so I am no expert, but I am distressed at the way that right wingers make people like these worthless low-lifes, or the Duck Dynasty con men, or Sarah Palin's trashy family out to be exemplars of what it means to be a real American.
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Are we finally to be rid of the Kenyan usurper?
Also, here is a birther so hard core he claims Ted Cruz isn't eligible to be President. (My personal opinion is as much as I dislike Cruz he is a “natural born" American citizen.)
You've made many good posts. This was not one of them.
The people who made "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo are not presenting the Shannon clan as Real Americans; they're presenting the family as trash to be ridiculed. Conservatives haven't been honoring the family; quite the opposite.
Here's commentary from one blog post from Red State: "Have you ever just watched an episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo” and realized that every character therein would be infinitely more valuable fulfilling a different role in the carbon cycle? . . . . Anything that kept Honey Boo-Boo’s parasitic cast of genetically worthless lard-slabs a couple of moon pies short of a full EBT Card would be absolutely commendable."
http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/08/honey-boo-boo-all-my-babies-mamas-and-the-debt-ceiling/
Here's Rod Dreher from the American Conservative: "My mother stopped by while it was on, and mentioned that my father won’t let the show be watched in his house. I know why, too: because it offends him that the show sets up working-class Southern people like him for ridicule. He doesn’t for a second live like the Honey Boo Boos, or esteem their values. In fact, just the opposite. . . . There is no shame in getting help from the government when you’re flat on your back. Someone like Mama June, though, is by any reasonable standard undeserving."
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/honey-boo-boo-nation/
June Shannon has a damaged foot from a forklift accident, and is also legally blind.
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Making fun of June Shannon bothers me. She is not the holier-than-thou type that Palin and the Robertsons are. She does not go around attacking others' appearances, so attacking hers should be off-limits. You're ridiculing her for being fat and uncultured, and your attacks on her are similar to what the above conservatives made.
Green Eagle, you are punching down here, and I don't like it. There's another word for punching down: bullying. Please save your vitriol for the conservative commentators and media folk who are in a position of power; they're the ones who need to be punched at.
P.S. I don't know how you manage to go through all the material for the wingnut wrap-ups and remain mentally balanced. After ten minutes of Glenn Beck on the radio, it would take all the restraint I have just to avoid smashing the thing.
Mama June's daughter told her mother back in the day that Mark had touched her and Mama went into denial. I get she's not there now, but still... there are photos with Mark and June being very cosy. ICK!@@@@@
This isn't about labels like South or uneducated. It's about what is correct. Children can not consent - can not sign a contract, can not vote. I don't care what provocation anyone claims, kids are verboten. Period.
I'm all for the parrot to squawk as much as he wants on this. Mama June messed up and then didn't 'fess up.
Connie
There is a movement within the right to keep the poor from voting, on the grounds that they are neither competent nor honest enough to run a government. "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" plays right into this stereotype.
It's no surprise that the conservatives want to disqualify non-whites from voting. Shows which portray African-Americans as buffoons help with this; one merely has to look at the history of minstrel shows.
However, a majority of poor whites within the United States would prefer the Democrats to the Republicans (this isn't true in every state, however). "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" serves conservative purposes in the same way that minstrel shows did; here, the white poor are depicted as buffoons.
I have reactionary relatives who would like to take the right to vote away from the "47% percent." They might watch the Duck Dynasty con men and come away with the feeling that the Robertsons are real Americans and liberals aren't. They aren't doing that here; they're watching "Honey Boo-Boo" and getting the feeling that the white poor are such trash that we can't trust them, either.