No more hotbed of hillbillies

OMG wrote:

Aw, gee, and I was looking forward to seeing the Palin-family on his show.
Let's see, the Plain-clan, Sarah - knocked-up as a teenager while unwed, went to six schools in as many years and wound up getting her bachelors from a po-dunk school in po-dunk Idaho.'Worked' as a sports' caster in a po-dunk Alaskan-village - on and off {mostly off} while she had four kids. She served as a mayor in that po-dunk Alaska-village for a little while and then - this former po-dunk 'beauty-queen', ceased the opportunity to bite the hand that fed her to take over the Governor's position in the state {only just} that has more reindeer than people. Having made the decision to bring a Downs' child into the world {her fifth kid}, she then decided that her commitement to 'family values'- what with a special needs infant at home and a 7 year old as well, translated into her fundamental{ist} ability to become Vice President and - possibly, President/Commander and Chief of the United States. All the while, her unwed daughter of 17 years of age is now already 5 months pregnant and her teenage son is off to join the battle in Afghanistan. Yep, if EVER there was a family that's suited to appear on the Jerry Springer Show it's the Palins. White American Trash from po-dunk nowheresville.
Now, this is a potential first-family for American we can all get behind --- Give me a break!!!

Robert Lee wrote:

Ahhh yes, another article that denigrates trailer-dwellers and stereotypes hillbillies. The last American cultural sector for whom the media elite fail to treat with political correctness. I wonder if the reporter would have used the "N-word," "D-word," or "K-word if she happened to see a Springer episode that featured African-Americans, lesbians, or a Jewish family battling it out. The vast majority of what the elite refer to as "hillbillies" or "rednecks" are hard-working common folks -- city, town, and rural -- who are proud of those monikers because it implies regional pride. Hillbillies are not all toothless banjo-pickers from the north Georgia hills any more than every young professional living on the north side is a Yuppie.

Larry Berrry wrote:

I await the day the show is dragged off the air. It's a farce and an embarassment - as it has been from day one. People should be ashamed for watching or participating in it.

A Hillish Bill wrote:

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That's really unfair to the article. The article didn't really seem to have an agenda one way or the other - it was (gasp) just reporting. If you want to identify a source for your perceived 'denigration', look to the show itself: it has been giving - no, more likely, it has been reveling in giving - a bad name to various lower socioeconomic and/or non-urban elite groups for over a decade. It has encouraged all the insidious and generally incorrect stereotypes that you mention. But you are making a straw man by pushing the blame on the trib and you are creating a false dichotomy by suggesting that the denigration of those groups - by the trib or anyone else - implies an acceptance of only 'yuppie' urban city dwellers. Cynically, I'd remind you that there are many other 'acceptable' groups besides Lincoln Park residents! Less cynically, I'd simply suggest that you're guilty of a non sequitur.