Trapped Between Boss Hogg and a Hard Place
Here's former U.S. Rep. Ben Jones, D-Georgia, doing a neat little dance after Crossfire's Robert Novak points out that his knocking a new Beverly Hillbillies-inspired reality show as enforcing Southern stereotypes might be a wee bit hypocritical. Even Cooter, who Jones played on The Dukes of Hazzard as training for his political career, would have seen that coming.
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As if the hillbillies on this show are going to represent any kind of hillbilly reality as it's actually lived anyway....