{"id":25060,"date":"2014-01-12T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T01:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=25060"},"modified":"2014-01-12T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T01:52:04","slug":"hey-hey-were-the-monkees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=25060","title":{"rendered":"Hey, hey we&#8217;re the Monkees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-25076\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25076\" title=\"duck-dynasty-wallpaper\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/duck-dynasty-wallpaper-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/duck-dynasty-wallpaper-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/duck-dynasty-wallpaper-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/duck-dynasty-wallpaper.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-25083\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25083\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25083\" title=\"2346072_orig\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2346072_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2346072_orig.jpg 635w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2346072_orig-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know that there are Mason Dixon lines everywhere, and that there are rednecks everywhere. Anyone who has been to Louisiana or thereabouts knows that it&#8217;s lousy with rednecks and that they do all kinds of things: shootin&#8217; things,\u00a0hunting, fishing, four-wheeling, making moonshine, but also\u00a0wearing Tommy Hilfiger and Abercrombie and playing golf. Is it really a surprise to see pictures of these Dick Dynasty dudes looking like douchebags 15 years ago? The parodic, beard-touting Central Casting hillbillies from Louisiana, are just that, a parody. I&#8217;m sure much of the redneck population in the South consists of Nike shoes wearing, fad-sporting, frosted tips wearing d-bags driving big lifted diesel trucks, littering, and spouting racist shit every now and then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-25073\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25073\" title=\"1d8f7b7ce2abc86a5f1716b31dcb351f\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1d8f7b7ce2abc86a5f1716b31dcb351f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1d8f7b7ce2abc86a5f1716b31dcb351f.jpg 590w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1d8f7b7ce2abc86a5f1716b31dcb351f-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because they&#8217;re wearing linen, or sweater vests, doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re good guys (example: Rick Santorum). But w<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">hile their cultural and political beliefs may be consistent with being &#8220;rednecks&#8221;, that alone was not enough to get them a reality teevee show. They had to be repackaged as real salt of the earth, down home &#8220;true&#8221; Amurikkkans, unsullied by East Coast relativism and West Coast hedonism, who could never be mistaken for effete, blue state, haute-bourgeois\u00a0intelligentsia.\u00a0A bunch of clean cut yuppie d-bags spouting faux Christian homilies and homophobia is the Faux Newscasters gig. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Big money making idea for me: take a well-educated, rich black family, put them in costumes and pretend they&#8217;re &#8220;from the hood.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that there are Mason Dixon lines everywhere, and that there are rednecks everywhere. 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