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January 12, 2005
Blue American values
Marshall sheriff's official Web site airs anti-gay stance
An Alabama sheriff -- whose first name I won't mention -- has a variety of anti-gay and "traditional values" crap up on his official website. I won't publish his opinions either, but here's a link. According to the Marshall County Commission Chairman, "He is a Roy Moore clone. Take Rush Limbaugh, Roy Moore and Buford Pusser and roll them together and you get [name omitted]." Scary. From a description of how he runs the jail and his office, he apparently thinks he actually is Buford Pusser, or at least Joe Don Baker.
I Am Not Making These Up:
1. One of the four major towns in Marshall County is Arab.
2. It is linked to the county seat (Guntersville) by Alabama 69.
Posted by Mac Thomason at January 12, 2005 09:28 AM
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Hrm... you think this guy might more vigorously investigate a crime involving homosexuals than he would one involving just straight people? I also notice his fondess for the 40's and 50's, an era noted for racial segregation and repression of civil rights. Think he might investigate a crime involve blacks more vigorously than one involving whites only? I think these are valid questions.
Posted by: Michael Edward Bowen at January 12, 2005 11:02 AM
Another question: What's he going to run for next? Congress? Maybe I'm unduly cynical, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at January 12, 2005 11:16 AM
Joe Don Baker. bahahaha
Posted by: Susan at January 12, 2005 11:27 AM
Thought you'd appreciate that one. JDB has played Big Jim Folsom, but frankly this guy isn't even little jim folsom.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at January 12, 2005 11:38 AM
He's probably not even Joe Don Baker in Mitchell, the movie shown in the last Joel episode of MST3K.
Posted by: Haggai at January 12, 2005 02:36 PM
Yes, he was in an MST3K episode. I forget the name, but it's set in Malta. A tough Texas cop goes there to pursue the men who killed his partner. Painfully formulaic, macho and ripe for MST3K-ification.
Posted by: Susan at January 12, 2005 03:19 PM
Duh, I didn't read your post well, Haggai. It was "Mitchell."
Posted by: Susan at January 12, 2005 03:20 PM
He was in two -- "Mitchell" and "Final Justice". The first was the last Joel episode; the latter is the one you're thinking of, Susan.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at January 12, 2005 03:42 PM
Right. Wow, you must have them all on tape. "Final Justice." I should have remembered a title that cheesy.
Posted by: Susan at January 12, 2005 04:21 PM
Most of them, except the first season. I have Mitchell on DVD, though.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at January 12, 2005 04:53 PM
Yeah, I was a little confused there--I remember Mitchell, and it certainly wasn't set in Malta. :)
Posted by: Haggai at January 12, 2005 09:35 PM
Looking at the remarks the guy makes, I have to wonder if we're witnessing a bit of band-wagon grandstanding in our state, a case of nauseating one-upsmanship to see who can get the most ink.
First, of course, came Roy Moore, the standard to which all fearful, angry, southern white male homophobic and racist misogynists aspire. Then Gerald Allen with his campaign against literature. Then Ashley "slave to fashion" McKathan. Now this creep.
I think the scariest part is that someone who looks back fondly on 1950's Alabama is still given authority (not to mention a firearm) by the state.
Posted by: Susan at January 12, 2005 10:15 PM