# TV Land pulls 'Dukes of Hazard' show due to Confederate flag **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601 "2015-07-01T13:38:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BOBBYGRV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/1 "2015-07-01T13:38:52Z")
[http://www.wgrz.com/story/life/tv/2015/07/01/confederate-flag-gets-dukes-of-hazzard-yanked-from-tv-land/29571785/](http://www.wgrz.com/story/life/tv/2015/07/01/confederate-flag-gets-dukes-of-hazzard-yanked-from-tv-land/29571785/) > The Duke Boys have been in trouble with the law since the day they was born, but now they’re now feeling the wrath of Confederate flag protesters. > TheWrap has confirmed that TV Land has pulled the 1980s-era comedy _Dukes of Hazzard_ from its lineup because it featured a car — called The General Lee — that prominently displayed the flag on the roof. > Warner Bros, which produced the show, recently announced they would cease production of all merchandise bearing the flag, including reproductions of The General Lee. > Now the show itself, which ran for seven seasons, from 1979 to 1985, is being yanked. > [![http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9065941e142eb769bb76794c742e08d1e14ee558/r=300/http/www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9065941e142eb769bb76794c742e08d1e14ee558/r=300/http/www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/89a374f196ca9f4222c3eca98eea8045825433a8/c=231-0-1431-1200/local/-/media/2015/06/24/USATODAY/USATODAY/635707399117888888-EPA-USA-HOLLYWOOD-LEGENDS-AUCTION.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/d/e/de0a2eb86f0a3b558cd4f615f3d678f12d905bd9.jpeg)](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/06/24/no-more-dukes-of-hazzard-toys-with-confederate-flag/29210683/) > The move comes amid renewed debate surrounding the divisive flag. Protesters around the country have called for states like South Carolina and Mississippi to remove it from public grounds in light of the racially-motivated mass shooting at a black church in Charleston last month. > Ben Jones, who played mechanic Cooter on the show, recently came to the defense of the flag in a Facebook post, and in a USA TODAY opinion piece. > “Our beloved symbol is now being attacked in a wave of political correctness that is unprecedented in our nation of free speech and free expression,” wrote Jones, who also served as a congressman from Georgia and now is a national spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. > Jones currently operates a chain of _Dukes of Hazzard_ stores and museums called Cooter’s Place. He said that despite the move by Warner Bros, he will continue to sell Confederate flag products. > “Cooter’s is going to continue to sell our Southern symbols as long as there is a Cooter’s,” Jones wrote. “I will fight these people until hell freezes over, and then I will fight them on the ice.” > After the Charleston church shootings, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the flag’s removal from the state’s capitol grounds, and the state’s legislature has voted to debate the motion for removal. A flurry of similar moves elsewhere in the south soon followed. I’ve been pretty quiet about this whole flag thing, because really it annoyed me, but not enough for me to say anything. This move just seems over the top though. You’ve been airing this show for how many years and now suddenly there’s a problem? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/2 "2015-07-01T14:00:41Z")
Banning an object like a flag in some attempt to stop hateful people and hateful actions is entertaining… ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/3 "2015-07-01T14:51:00Z")
Freedom of expression… unless someone is offended. ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/4 "2015-07-01T15:13:27Z")
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. ---
**Author:** ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/5 "2015-07-01T15:53:46Z")
![http://www.youngcons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11667028_10103134325827859_1188958042_n.jpg](http://www.youngcons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11667028_10103134325827859_1188958042_n.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/6 "2015-07-01T16:35:41Z")
I WAS PRETTY WHATEVER ABOUT THE WHOLE THING UNTIL THIS HAPPENED. TOO FAR. ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/7 "2015-07-01T17:33:48Z")
Country of pussies we are becoming. WTF happened to us? I’m so fucking sick of who is offended by what everyone says, does, writes, wears, smokes, drinks, eats, watches, attends, acts, supports, carries, displays, owns, builds, drives, buys, visits…pretty much everything. Fuck em all. This country used to walk around with its pants off displaying iron balls and crushing the skull of anything in its way. Now we’re a nation of panzy asses controlled by bleeding hearts and drooling personal injury attorneys who have to send everyone an apology for emitting odorous flatulence. But…I digress. ---
**Author:** ![NYstanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@NYstanger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/NYstanger)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/8 "2015-07-01T18:49:54Z")
> [@fairgentleman Z](#): > Everyone knows aliens built the pyramids. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/9 "2015-07-01T19:07:47Z")
No actually aliens fucked monkeys and made slaves (humans). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/10 "2015-07-01T20:54:18Z")
> [@NYstanger](#): > > Everyone knows aliens built the pyramids. Solid > [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > No actually aliens fucked monkeys and made slaves (humans). 😃 Also solid. haha ---
**Author:** ![King](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/king/32/7329_2.png) [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/11 "2015-07-02T06:52:23Z")
this country is full of a bunch of pussies. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/12 "2015-07-02T07:19:14Z")
I am a big fan of Bubba Watson and he has a Duke boys car, does that make me racist? ---
**Author:** ![Quattro\_Krant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac91a4/32.png) [@Quattro\_Krant](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quattro_Krant)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/13 "2015-07-02T07:53:09Z")
Can I still give it a tug while thinking of Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke? ---
**Author:** ![Bakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bakes/32/7469_2.png) [@Bakes](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bakes)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/14 "2015-07-02T10:13:43Z")
At least we know CMT won’t yank it from the airwaves. > [@LZ](#): > > Banning an object like a flag in some attempt to stop hateful people and hateful actions… Brought to you by the same people who pushed (& passed) for the SAFE Act. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/15 "2015-07-02T10:16:56Z")
If TV Land stops running a show nothing was banned. Some people just want to act like Homeland security on the orders of the FCC raided TV land and seized the tapes. ---
**Author:** ![91MR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91mr2/32/7217_2.png) [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/16 "2015-07-02T11:17:21Z")
> [@Quattro Krant](#): > > Can I still give it a tug while thinking of Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke? No, pretty soon that will offend people too…any day now, this world is going to implode… ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/17 "2015-07-02T11:28:18Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Banning an object like a flag in some attempt to stop hateful people and hateful actions is entertaining… Exactly Removing a TV show is NOT going to make anyone less racist. I agree that maybe we shouldn’t fly the flag on state buildings, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gus/32/5112_2.png) [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/18 "2015-07-02T12:59:33Z")
“One nation, under pussies” ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/19 "2015-07-02T13:23:09Z")
Everyone is pissed cuz saying its just a flag but you burn the american flag and everyone loses their shit. ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tv-land-pulls-dukes-of-hazard-show-due-to-confederate-flag/272601/20 "2015-07-02T14:16:56Z")
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