Why Kentucky Can't Ever Have Nice Things

(Headline shamelessly stolen from Page One.)

To summarize the piece from a Cincinnati television station that guards its teensy copy like it was sacred foreskin:

A gunstore owner in notoriously racist repug northern Kentucky displayed one of those lighted portable signs with the detachable letters reading, in part, "the president is a nagger."

When, mysteriously, the sign was changed to read what the pearl-clutching virgins at the tv station refer to as a "racial epithet," the gunstore owner was shocked that anyone would do such a thing.

Yeah, bullshit. The fact that "someone" changed the second letter of the last word from an "a" to an "i" is irrelevant. The gunstore owner knew goddamn good and well that people driving by would get just a glimpse at the five-line, 17-word sign and would, of course, read the last word as "nigger."

The gunstore owner put up a sign that he wanted everyone to read as "the president is a nigger." That's because the gunstore owner thinks "the president is a nigger."

And he got away with it because everybody who saw it before the actual, irrelevant letter was changed and read it as "the president is a nigger" thought the gunstore owner was just the cleverest thing in the world.

Next time you hear somebody put down eastern Kentucky, you be sure to say: well, in the mountains they may be uneducated and poor and unhealthy, but in northern Kentucky they're racist fucktards.

Via Wonkette.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....