Andrea Mitchell of NBC News has apologized for appearing on MSNBC and blubbering about Obama’s visit to Bristol, calling Bristol a real redneck area sort of bordering on Appalachia country… (by Appalachia country, she means on over into Tennessee where us Deliverance type people live.)
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J. Todd Foster called Mitchell on the insulting remark. [...]
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Posted in Blog on Apr 25th, 2008
So what they’re saying is – the customary habits of Southern women, which include chain-smoking Virginia Slims, eating foods fried in Clover-Leaf lard and popping nerve pills to help suffer the fools around them, is effecting their overall life-expectancy?
Huh, and all this time I thought the primary reason we tend to die young was because [...]
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Times-News reports that Longtime Hawkins County storyteller “Doc” McConnell is on track to become Tennessee’s first-ever “Tennessee Storytelling Laureate.”
A resolution creating the office of Tennessee Storytelling Laureate and designating McConnell as its first appointee advanced in the House State Government Subcommittee Wednesday.
The resolution noted that McConnell, a Rogersville native, has made significant contributions to Tennessee’s [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2008
Open the pages of Secrets, Lies and Pies by Fall Branch author Lisa Hall, and you will find yourself smack dab in the middle of Coleman, Virginia. The town is small, but the talk is big! Whether it is the dish on a hot celebrity couple or the latest local scandal, it seems [...]
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