Comments on: Bias against Southerners evident in coverage of Jamie Lynn story

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:06:49 +0000

Well..being from Georgia myself I have to agree with the Atlanta comment. Although I’d never live in Atlanta ever in my life simply due to the gangs. In Warner Robins we know automatically when someone’s from the ATL. The only time thankfully that I deal with Atlanta is when I fly to Shannon, Ireland.

Barns are more expensive to build than a house most times and you have to pay tax on them too.

Bet y’all didn’t know that!

Southern stereotypes are so funny though. I think I’ve been called a Yank more times than I can count in Ireland and I always got SO insulted when my husband’s family would refer to me as that Yank girl from the states. LOL.

I hope Jamie Lynn just laughs at the hatred emitting from TMZ. They just wish they had down south southern cooking everyday. I wouldn’t trade my sweet tea and biscuits for anything! I miss them so much when I go back to Eireann.

So TMZ can kiss my fanny. (Which has a vulgar meaning in Ireland so don’t ever say it there. Fanny means bum here, but it means woman’s nether region in Ireland!)

So there’s a culture lesson from an uneducated unpolitically-correct “redneck” down-south hick cow-wrestling horse-riding mud-bogging gun-toting truck-driving rebel-yelling southern gal.

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By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:22:16 +0000

Well, trust me, there’s a LOT of money here in Atlanta. Lots. You see nothing but mercedes and bmw’s cruising around.

But, drive out to my neck of the woods and you WILL see your share of toothless rednecks.

Lots of 4-wheel drives and camouflage.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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By: BinFL

BinFL — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:18:26 +0000

Nightbird has it about right - duds and stars everywhere.

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By: Cindy Kennedy

Cindy Kennedy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:17:18 +0000

what’s wrong with a barn anyway?

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By: Nightbird

Nightbird — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:40:41 +0000

I spend time between Nashville and Los Angeles. It’s amazing how BOTH cultures have idiots. For example, there are those in LA who think we are all uneducated hicks, and there are those in Nashville who think Californians are all radical left wing nutjobs. Oh, and everyone is gay, too.

The problem is it’s the superficial phony LA types and the redneck mouthbreathing Southern types that get all the press.

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By: sallysitwell

sallysitwell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:23:06 +0000

TMZ is like the Dina Lohan of celebrity gossip. Annoying, unfunny, and somehow got a television show.

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By: Codzilla

Codzilla — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:50:21 +0000

@Scott, et all: I started in Berkeley and spent the rest of my younger years in Lafayette (insert eye roll here).

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By: Persistent Cat

Persistent Cat — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:47:05 +0000

TMZ isn’t biased towards anyone, it’s just poorly written and so incredibly not funny. It tries to be satirical and biting but comes across so tired and forced.

And it’s not a bias against anyone that doesn’t live in NY and LA, it writes poorly about them too. It writes poorly about everyone.

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By: lanette

lanette — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:51:19 +0000

i hate TMZ with a freakin passion!!!

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By: anon

anon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:20:59 +0000

OMG!!! Cathead biscuits! I haven’t heard that term for years! Thanks for the smile.

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