J. TODD FOSTER: Thank You, Andrea Mitchell, For The Ready-Made Column

Posted by ( D.Hutch ) on June 13, 2008 at 9:27 am

I never did like Mrs. Mitchell as a news reporter, don’t like her voice or her appearence. However the women needs to take a course in United States Geography. Bristol Virginia does skirt the Appalachian Mountain Range, therefore we are considered to be from the Appalachian Mountains, proudly I might add. But Bristol is located in just a pinhead portion of those majestic mountains. The Appalachian Mountains stretch from Georgia to Maine, so when this poor excuse of a lady, refered to people of the Appalachian Mountains as “rednecks” do you think she realizes just how many thousands of people she insulted?, of course not, she only appoligized to the people of Biistol Virginia not to the many thousands of other Appalachains.
  A teacher of mine in High School Miss Kathy Ratliff used to say to us, “internalize before you regurgitate”, Thanks Kathy, Andrea Mitchell should have been a student of this fine southern ladies class.

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Posted by ( Myra ) on June 12, 2008 at 10:45 am

I love my heritage. I love my southern roots and I love my country. I love this area and wouldn’t change it at all! If Andrea Mitchell wants to show her ignorance - then so be it. I just laugh at her.. and go about my business. The more people think that this isn’t the place for them because it isn’t a “high tech corridor” the less we have to deal with them. I’m from the Southwest Virgina - I can take a little teasing and guess what- it doesn’t hurt my feelings! Thats whats wrong with the world today!! Oh my goodness.. she/he got her feelings hurt.. Give her a million for mental anguish and it will all be better!! Grow up Southwest Virginia - stop pouting…

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Posted by ( sheltiemom ) on June 11, 2008 at 1:02 am

Mr. Foster - What better way to stick it to Mitchell and the actual, real-life lemming elitists who happily follow and uncritically follow in the wake of a snake oil salesman than a hilarious but dead-on Southern style hit. I had to leave that network when Olbermann, along with Matthews, Fineman and Alter began their pathologic attacks on Hillary Clinton.  Will be looking forward to more of your work.

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Posted by ( Weisbrot ) on June 10, 2008 at 8:03 pm

My response was actually at the time the VERY LAST one. No matter, even though this speaks volumes about the reading comprehension of the respondent.

Truth be told, I’m not complaining in the least about another wild generalization concerning Southern people or Southwest Virginia folk in particular. I believe that nearly all stereotypes by definition have their basis in fact, and retain various degrees of truth in their descriptions of the group in question. Sure, SW VA and E TN have their share of what the elite term “rednecks”, and some of those rednecks are a few Buds short of a sixpack. What of it?

What I’m commenting on is the fact that those elitists who would deny the above truism are the first to disparage Southerners and SW VA/E TN folk in particular. And these elitists are also the ones driving situations upon this nation and the people of the South such as the necessity to attack Iran and Iraq in order to protect a “democracy” in the Middle East. They’re also the first to denounce the perceived “racism” in the Deep South, while refusing to live anywhere near the noble folk they pretend to defend. These same elitists, like the blowhard in the response below, enjoy placing themselves on a pedestal and enjoying thoughts of cultural superiority while as a class being the very cause of the cultural, financial, and foreign affairs disasters we are now witnessing.

Many people I’ve met from Seattle always agree that it rains constantly there; they say it’s a 24/7 downpour when questioned about the local weather. I’ve never witnessed much more than the ever-present haze there; sure it’s wet, but it doesn’t actually rain that much there. I’ve found that they do this in part to deflect the tourist and relocation floods that might result from the realization that it’s actually not so unpleasant there most of the time. I generally do something similar when questioned about my homeplace. I let people think that snake handling, outdoor plumbing, and shoeless pedestrians are common occurences. I let the elitists have their moments of satisfaction and their oh-so-tolerant smug chuckle about the area they will never be able to recognize and enjoy as one of the most beautiful and hospitable (within reason) regions on earth. Otherwise, we might have (as Mr. Foster so eloquently said first) many more of the “upper crust” of Manhattan down South swinging golf clubs, mixing Martinis and demanding bagels tp go with their grits. This would be a tragedy far worse than some gold-digging upper-crust denizen of the infotainment world making the usual disparaging comments about folks who neither need or desire her attentions.

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Posted by ( Weisbrot ) on June 10, 2008 at 11:50 am

A great response.

I’ve spent a significant portion of my working life visiting inside the Beltway; I think some of your gentle qualifiers about the people found there are not warranted. The great majority of them feel exactly the same disdain for the Southern region and its people that Mitchell let slip. Why give them a pass, or imply that we think they are mostly good folk just like us? And that’s not to mention the “upper crust” of Manhattan, whose violent dislike of nearly all “others” is matched only by their absolute revulsion over the Causcasian Christians found in Southwest Virginia.

Elsewhere on this site I posted the below response. It’s not as reasoned or well-mannered as your excellent and professional response, but perhaps I’ve had a bit more time to be exposed to the “tolerance” and “inclusion” of the Obama-loving elites and media that Mitchell represents.

PS- Great gold-digger shot. Harsh? Not nearly enough.

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http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/opinion/editorials/article/mitchell_to_region_sorry_for_stupidity/10526/

Another Obama website:
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

Keep in mind that Mitchell is married to the big government/“conservative” fiscal hero and architect of our current financial disaster. Yet she looks down on the shoeless rednecks of Appalachia.

I grew up in Bristol and have lived in a large Southern city for twenty years. Much of the suburban population here is made up of transients from the Northeast. They are unified in their disdain for Southerners, even as most of them proudly exhibit their “tolerant”, progressive views. Its disturbing to note that many natives of the South will join this bandwagon in order to curry favor, fit in with the elites, or to avoid social ostracism for not being sufficiently evolved.

Twenty years here in a city that just doesn’t “hate” has led me to believe that the only answer may be to revive a serious drive for Southern secession, while enacting a plan to expel the liberal Northern transients along with the associated foreign elements they profess to tolerate and love (but whom they would never stoop to live among).

Hopefully they’ll take the phony Bush-loving, rapture-bunny “conservatives” with them so the South can re-establish the Republic destroyed in Lincoln’s Whig/mercantilist/railroad war.

Thinking Southerners should recognize that this current “democracy” is being led by mob-rule imperialists and psychotic Armageddonites supporting foreign nations over their own with Southern lives and treasure- and abolish them.

Along with Andrea Mitchell.

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