We recently received a postcard promoting an Internet business called "Buddy's
Old-Fashioned Web Site." The postcard declared, "America's favorite redneck
offers his thoughts on the current crisis." On his Web page, Buddy offers up
nuggets of Will Rogers-style wisdom like "I can't help wonderin' if the
Congress and the administration woulda got so worked up about all this, and
decided to go to war, and put up 40 billion dollars for this thing, if these
terrorists had blown up, let's say, a bunch of buses, somethin' the
Congressmen probably never ride in like they do airplanes. It's just natural
to relate to what you can relate to -- like dead Americans rather than dead
Serbians, Libyans, Iraqis, Palestinians -- you get the idea." Ranking redneck
officials, not known for their tolerance of foreigners, have cautioned that if
Buddy keeps talkin' like that, he's likely to lose his tobacco-spittin'
privileges.
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