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Posted on 02.02.13 by Danny Glover @ 3:53 pm
Millions of Americans fear that President Obama is going to infringe their Second Amendment right to bear arms. Guns and ammunition have been selling so fast that Walmart is now rationing them to address the demand. Obama wants to restrict access to guns, but he first he has to win the PR battle. That’s why he’s talking about how he shoots skeet “all the time” at Camp David — and why he released a photo to appease the skeptics who doubt that claim. 
Sorry, Mr. President, firing a shotgun occasionally won’t earn you any street cred among rednecks who cling to their guns ever tighter when politicians like you start plotting to weaken gun rights. You’re no Paul Ryan. Update: The picture of Obama as skeet-shooter-in-chief is great ammunition for Photoshop fun. Here are a couple of spoofs from my Facebook news feed today:
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Posted on 10.30.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:42 pm
The girl in the photo is Kim Stafford, and she’s not from Alabama. She grew up in Massachusetts and attends an liberal arts university in the western part of her home state. The school doesn’t even have a Greek system, and she’s a registered Democrat who plans to vote for Obama next week. But the reason Stafford has become the subject of Internet ridicule is because people who don’t know any actual rednecks are so willing to believe the worst about those rubes from places like Alabama or West Virginia or even Pennsylvania. I suspect that somewhere along the Internet chain, a liberal with a chip on his shoulder about the tea party movement decided to add fiction to Stafford’s satire. He or she added phony details about the photo to get other redneck haters riled, and voila, an Internet legend was born. Stafford has tried to rebut the lies on her own blog, one with a vulgar phrase that captures the essence of redneck bigotry, but the Internet meme persists. People will believe what they want to believe about rednecks. As for me, I’d rather be an enlightened rube than an uniformed dupe who clings to fables. Filed under: Hatin' On Rednecks and News & Politics and People and Photography and Rednecks and Technology and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.11.12 by Danny Glover @ 12:47 pm
For the record, Vice President Joe Biden did not invite a biker lady to sit on his lap. He did the gentlemanly thing and pulled up a chair so she could get her picture taken with him. A smart photographer captured the candid moments after the posed picture, and people on Twitter started a rumor about something that didn’t happen the way they saw it.
Sadly, I fell for the Twitter hype about the photo. I’m glad to have heard the rest of the story. Also for the record, pizza entrepreneur Scott Van Duzer did hug President Obama during a campaign trip to Van Duzer’s Florida restaurant — and people are protesting the pizza shop over the hug. Obama haters flocked to the website Yelp to give Big Apple Pizza negative reviews for political rather than culinary reasons.
As an American, I support people’s right to register any political protest they desire, but I also reserve my right to expose some such antics for what they are — petty politics. Van Duzer, a Republican who voted for Obama in 2008 and plans to do so again, is right: “There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.” Scott Van Duzer appears to be a good man, and he is doing good work through his own foundation. He shouldn’t be catching business grief for hugging, or even voting for, President Obama. Disagree with his political views if you want — I do — but leave his business out of it. If I lived in Fort Pierce, Fla., I would be heading to Big Apple Pizza to buy a pie and show my support for the right of small businessmen to freedom of political speech and action. As a conservative, I cannot expect the same — remember the Chick-fil-A uproar — but this is a clear opportunity to “treat others the same way you want them to treat you” (Luke 6:31). Filed under: Business and Food and Human Interest and News & Politics and People and Photography and Religion Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 09.05.12 by Danny Glover @ 6:44 pm
This gem just surfaced in my Facebook news feed:
We need a sign like it at our local pavilion, where on Labor Day a skateboarder decided to do jumps while wearing baggy jeans. His pants fell to mid-thigh every time he hit the ground, exposing his plaid boxers for everyone else to see. Tacky! Filed under: Culture and Just For Laughs and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.29.12 by Danny Glover @ 12:40 pm
Speaking of Obamacare, this clever photographic mash-up is making the rounds online, forever memorializing CNN’s goof in reporting that the Supreme Court overturned the mandate that all Americans buy health insurance:
The photo is based on this celebrated historical photo of President Harry Truman proudly displaying a newspaper that reported his defeat when he actually won re-election in 1948:
But what I really love about the Obama-as-Truman photo is that my name (by way of the actor who shares it) found its way into the story: “The mash-up was made by a dude who was punched in the face by Danny Glover when he worked for us.” Filed under: Government and Media and News & Politics and People and Photography Comments: 3 Comments |
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Posted on 04.27.12 by Danny Glover @ 12:53 pm
That’s what one of my Facebook friends said yesterday when sharing this snapshot, captured by CU Independent photographer Andy Duann after a bear wandered onto Colorado University’s campus:
Head to the CU Independent’s article for more photos of the bear incident. And while we’re getting cheap laughs at the expense of falling bears, watch this decade-old clip of a bear hitting a trampoline, which Shephard Smith plays regularly on his Fox News show: Filed under: Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Media and News & Politics and Photography and Video and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.28.12 by Danny Glover @ 2:50 pm
When I was a child, my Dad decided to go high-tech one Christmas and buy my country-born-and-raised grandfather a Polaroid instant camera. I remember the first picture Grandpa ever took as he held the camera at his waist and pushed the red button. The result was a blurry photo of nothing in particular in his tiny living room. I doubt Grandpa ever used the camera again! I thought of that Christmas Day as I watched this video of a German daughter asking her aging father what he thinks of the new iPad she bought him: Thankfully, my own Dad isn’t so far removed from modern technology that he would use the iPad Mom bought him for Christmas last year as a cutting board. Then again, he doesn’t get to use it nearly as often these days because Mom is addicted to “Angry Birds.” Filed under: Entertainment and Family and Just For Laughs and Photography and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.26.12 by Danny Glover @ 6:37 pm
My son and I camped outside our local Best Buy all night back on March 15-16 so we could be first in line to get the new iPad. We needn’t have bothered. No one gathered outside the store until two hours before Best Buy started distributing tickets. I wasted a day’s vacation because I could have purchased any of the iPad options I wanted on my lunch hour. But the adventure wasn’t a total waste. The technology site Mashable published these two pictures I took, one in line and the other inside the store:  
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Posted on 02.28.12 by Danny Glover @ 7:50 pm
When things break in the D.C. subway system, the world’s brightest engineers gather in a room to brainstorm the best solution. And when all their genius ideas fail, they resort to the most reliable redneck repair — duct tape!
This photo is from the Metro Center station, the hub of the entire subway system. I also saw another duct-tape repair in another station. Filed under: D.C. Commuter Diary and Government and Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.12 by Danny Glover @ 10:15 pm
If you’ve spent any time on Facebook lately, you’ve likely seen a flurry of photo essays that contrast the perceptions people have of various jobs, political beliefs and aspects of culture with the realities of those topics. It’s the latest Internet meme — “What people think I do vs. what I really do.” These images have made me chuckle because they are relevant to my career or life: 
If you hate this meme, or all Internet memes, you’ll appreciate these ironic contributions that bash the meme while also fueling it:  
And if you love it all and want more visit my board on Pinterest. Filed under: Business and Culture and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Photography and Social Media and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.06.12 by Danny Glover @ 5:51 pm
This snapshot, posted to Instagram by Douglas W. Ray of the digital marketing firm Three Ships Media, has been plastered all over my Facebook news feed for the past two days. I got a kick out of it, so I thought I’d share it here:
Social media isn’t really all about donuts (or other foods) and the people who eat them. But like everyone else, I’ve posted my share of updates, tweets and photos about my dining experiences. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at? Wray’s list of “Social Media Explained” has inspired others to expand it. UPDATE: Three Ships Media told the story behind how its inside joke about social media and donuts went viral. Apparently Punxsutawney Phil deserves the credit:
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Posted on 01.25.12 by Danny Glover @ 11:30 am
We’ve been down this road before on this blog — twice, in fact. Apparently road-painting crews (and our “home-shcooled” son) have trouble spelling the word “school correctly.
The latest example, as reported by Fox News:
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Posted on 12.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 3:14 pm
But first a bit about Pinterest: As the name implies, the site is a place where you “pin” pictures of the people, places and things that “interest” you. But this virtual pinboard also has a social aspect to it. After you pin photos to your topical boards, other people can “like” them, “repin” them to their own Pinterest boards or comment on the photos. The network is especially popular with women, who use it to create collections of recipes, clothes and other items. But as I poked around the site today, I realized that it’s a great forum for creating photo essays and themed albums on topics that interest me, too — sports, politics, West Virginia and, of course, rednecks. I decided to make my trial run on Pinterest a fun one by pinning photos from past “Redneck Humor” entries on this blog. (One potential benefit is new readers.) I also scoured the Internet for other photographic displays of redneck humor and pinned several of them to my board. This photo album is a win-win for both you and for me. It makes it easier for rednecks who love to laugh at and with their kinfolk (in spirit, if not reality) to find “snapshots of happily uncultured American life” in one place. And It’s much easier and quicker for me to pin multiple photos to Pinterest than to blog about each photo individually. When it comes to redneck humor, pictures tell the story far better than my words anyway. So if you have not done so yet, click on over to my new Pinterest board and get your fill of redneck laughs. And if you’re so inclined, request your own invite to Pinterest and repin or like the photos that make you laugh the most. Filed under: Blogging and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Social Media Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:35 pm
During the legislative season, Paul Ryan is a budget geek in Congress. But when hunting season comes, he’s a whitetail wonk and a sharpshooter in the wilds of Wisconsin. The proof is in this picture that Ryan, R-Wis., posted to his Facebook page today:
“I butcher my own deer, grind the meat, stuff it in casings and then smoke it,” Ryan told Politico. “Not much to it.” That, my friends, is an enlightened redneck. Filed under: An Enlightened Redneck ... and Government and Hunting & Guns and People and Photography and Rednecks and Wildlife Comments: 4 Comments |
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Posted on 10.31.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:27 pm
Sometimes we West Virginia University fans have a twisted sense of humor. Our “Backyard Brawl” rivalry with the Pitt Panthers brings out the best of the worst within us.  The Mountaineers win the “Front-Porch Pumpkin Brawl”! Filed under: Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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