TVLand quickly and abruptly took off The Dukes of Hazzard due to the presence of the Confederate Flag displayed on the General Lee, but ME-TV has no problem showing Matlock's courtroom scenes that have the Confederate Flag standing between the judge and witness stand.
Has anyone noticed that?
and by the way, TVLand in my opinion is one of the worst channels on the air.
I like tvland and metv. I've not noticed but it's all politics and garbage why one would be and another not. More I could say like the two little morons that didn't know why they were protesting Trump last night and could only giggle on tv but that's where the world is heading.
shareI assume you mean Matlock, right?
Anyways, yes. It is hypocrisy. There is no way to look at that and say it is not hypocrisy. The Dukes are taken off the air, but anything else that shows the Confederate flag stays.
Meanwhile, Smokey and the Bandit, a film with a similar premise and automobile (the license plate had the Georgia state Confederate flag), still airs.
Wasn't in Smokey and The Bandit Part 3 where Buford T. Justice & Junior encounter the KKK on the highway harassing two black chicken farmers?
Buford T. Justice & the Smokey and the Bandit films were more sexist, racist, and foul mouthed, then The Dukes Of Hazzard ever was.
But, yes I agree. Ban it all, or don't ban any of it.
Why pick on The Dukes Of Hazzard and not the rest of it?
It's a shame that people who never watched the The Dukes Of Hazzard are the ones complaining about it. What right do that have to do so?
I assume you mean Matlock, right?
METV did take The Beverly Hillbillies off the air for a few months. Strangely enough, when they brought it back, one of the first episodes played was "The South Rises Again."
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Dotheads? Those are Indians not Arabs you stupid piece of *beep*
We're your mother and father siblings by chance?
Meanwhile u bastards are all ok with the swastikas on hogan hero
shareIf the actors on Hogan's Heroes who were Jewish (Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin, to name a few) didn't mind it why should anyone else?
shareIndeed, they actively experienced the terror by the Nazis and had to leave their home country. They all lost family members, some of them very near ones. I doubt they did this purely because of opportunism.
The recently deceased Robert Clary (Corporal LeBeau) was even a Buchenwald survivor.
I forgot about Clary. Thank you.
shareI watched both as a kid, but I couldn't remember any Confederate Flag in Matlock. Looking at stills now, I even still see barely a flag. But in Dukes the Flag is such a central point, I can totally understand it. It is silly, because as I remember the Dukes never showed any really serious racism (wouldnt wonder if it has some now inappropriate scenes) - I only can remember typical 80s sexism. But yeah, the General Lee is depicted in a very positive light, so to compare it with an allegory to Hogan's Heroes it would be like Colonel Klink is the actual hero of the show who constantly help his prisoners.
shareIn an episode (S02E12, Open House) of Happy Days, Richie has a picture of a Confederate flag on his wall. Nowadays when that episode is broadcast, the flag is intentionally blurred out. Last time I saw it on MeTV, the blurring is so dominant it actually distracts from the scene.
shareActually, the flag on the General Lee (and the one that was banned in real life) isn't the confederate flag... it's the flag of the Tennessee state militia...
Here's a link to the actual confederate flag
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2FdeliveryService%3Fid%3DNMAH-2004-19157-08%26max%3D600&tbnid=a8Jyld5KMwv1FM&vet=12ahUKEwicoIrb5e6DAxUyEVkFHQHjD9QQMygDegQIARA3..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Famericanhistory.si.edu%2Fcollections%2Fnmah_461713&docid=l753HYJaBC5n1M&w=600&h=487&q=the%20real%20confederate%20flag&hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwicoIrb5e6DAxUyEVkFHQHjD9QQMygDegQIARA3
Here's a link to the Tennessee state militia flag
https://scv.org/product/army-of-tennessee-battle-flag/
Aren't you glad that the Democrats and Republicans who are running our country have a firm grasp on history?...
Aren't you glad that the aforementioned lot of people are influenced by woketards who don't know history?...
That’s interesting. But do you think the creators knew the distinction themselves or, if they did, expected the viewers to know?
shareI really don't know. The scary thing is that our "ingenious" elected officials didn't know the difference.
shareI don’t think many Americans, outside of males from Southern states perhaps, will appreciate the distincrion.
shareYou're right. Most people don't know the difference. I readily admit that I didn't know until after the fact, but I'm not one of the politicians who was screaming to have it banned.
It's ironic that the same people who jumped up and down at the banning of that flag (Nikki Haley in particular, who was very vocal about how happy she was) had no clue they were banning the WRONG flag!
A simple google search would have enlighted them... instead, to anyone who knows, they look like mindless simpletons who didn't know how to use google.