Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Chuckie Watch 86: Chuckie, the Super Bowl and guys in uniform

So, Chuckie got to play at the Super Bowl this year!  I hear he done good, too.  I didn't watch the pregame show.  Gretchen Wilson that played with him is really a good singer.  Her song "Redneck Woman" even mentions ole Chuckie.

I guess since the Super Bowl had to show it was more moral this year, after Janet Jackson's famous appearance last year, they figured Chuckie would be a safe choice for sure.  A bearded boop instead of a nekkid boob?  (And she had a pastie on, it wasn't really a nekkid boob anyway.)

In fact, Chuckie wrote a pregame blurb about his appearance Hats Off To Jacksonville Florida  02/07/05.  Yes, I know that was the day after the game.  But, you know, Chuckie's not really down with this whole "e-speed" business.  He seemed to be much more excited about seeing all the security and guys in uniforms and stuff than he was about appearing with Gretchen Wilson:

Of course we had rehearsals Friday and Saturday for our Super Bowl performance, which required a lot of moving around in a town which has been locked down tighter than a drum, with streets closed and barriers blocking entrances. ...

This is all post 9-11 security and absolutely neccessary. ...

Since the stadium is right on the water, the local police, the Coast Guard and even the border patrol have boats patrolling the Saint John’s River.

There is said to be a forty-mile no fly zone around the stadium but that doesn’t apply to the surveillance planes and fighter jets securing the airspace.

Heck, after a couple of more years of the Bush dynasty in power, and they may invite Chuckie to do the halftime show by just standing there and ranting to the crowd about how everybody has to obey Dear Leader Bush along with detailed descriptions of the ways that enemies of the State should be dismembered.

That's not so far-fetched, y'all.  One of the key moments in the buildup to the treasonous riots that Mississippi officials and private goons staged against the integration of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1962 was an appearance by Governor Ross Barnett at Ole Miss football game and ranting to the crowd about defending Mississippi's sacred right to persecute blacks.  Here's an account from some admiring white-supremicist hate site, Nationalist.org:

[In 1962] Minority James Meredith is forced into the University of Mississippi at bayonet point by President John F. Kennedy. The entire State of Mississippi rebels. The Confederate flag is central to the protests against oppression by minorities, tyranny by government officials and intrusion by communist-instigated agitation. Clean-cut, all-American youth raise their fists -- and their flags -- in defiance. Governor Ross Barnett, in Mississippi's Finest Hour, waves his own Confederate flag at the Ole Miss football game. In one of the most dramatic events in history, Barnett declares: "I love Mississippi. I love her customs. I love her people." Observers say that every white man in the state would have laid down his life at that very moment for freedom.

One of Chuckie's most famous songs says, "Be proud you're a Rebel 'cause the South's gone do it agin."

So, don't be surprised at Super Bowl 2007 if ole Chuckie's there channelling Ross Barnett.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"The Confederate flag is central to the protests against oppression by minorities, tyranny by government officials and intrusion by communist-instigated agitation."

Jeez, they actually believed that?  Wow.  I don't really know what do say to that other than it's really stupid.  

Anonymous said...

"Believe" may be too strong a word.  But nobody can whine like self-pitying white guys.  And the Mississippi variant may be the most intense of all.  Oh, man, these guys can *whine* like you've never heard.  Even Serbians and Croatians complaining about each other couldn't top them.

You might say that whiny white guys have a "culture of victimization." And that sense of being persecuted and victimized actually is a common element of authoritarian thinking, irrational as it often is.  And the white-supremacist fringe can get seriously irrational.

Kind of like Chuckie does, as a matter of fact. - Bruce

Anonymous said...

He performed at the Superbowl?  It was probably pre-show because I didn't see it and that's good, whew.