DISQUS

El Pagino · 8 months ago

As a native of Nashville, TN, i am deeply offended when someone points out how racist and backward much of our State's population is. Y'all just don't understand the virtues of being ignorant and aggressive. You also have no idea how humid it's going to be in a few months. Dammit.

talidapali · 8 months ago

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! And as a resident of Knoxville, I see your humidity and raise you one Stacy Campfield.

SSASDRAWKCAB · 8 months ago

And as a resident of the Tri-Cities, I'll see your Campfield and raise you one Matthew Hill

JustWondrin · 8 months ago

As a resident of Kingsport, I'll see your Matthew Hill and raise you one Ron ramsey AND one Jason Mumpower. Tennessee Republicans are SO embarrassing!

MNPundit · 8 months ago

I sometimes wonder if Marty Peretz is a nazi.

Joneses · 8 months ago

I had to read this about 4 times, I know it true but it's still kinda funny.

Why? He's the same guy that in 1999 introduced the road kill bill (that allows for eating of road kill, and before you insert your joke, I'm willing to bet that whatever state you live, you have a similar law).

Now I'm intrigue to find out about California and similiar bill(s).

Back to the subject in hand...It's a slap in the face, but hey, the GOP are known to associate whomever they disagree with to Nazi or anything bad that comes from that period to time.

Apphouse50 · 8 months ago

Why is it that it's always guys with names like Dewayne and DuWayne that spew this garbage? (With apologies as necessary, of course, but really!)

LeeBurl · 8 months ago

Let this bozo know how you feel:

sen.dewayne.bunch@capitol.tn.gov

Indigo · 8 months ago

These low-income ranters didn't learn how to use a dictionary in grade school so they pick up the naughty words they heard on the playground. The word "Nazi" is an insult expression, that's all they know about it.

Curiously, they're more eager to toss around the Nazi-word insult without understanding who the Nazis were or what they stand for today while, on the other hand, they rarely throw out the word "Communist" as an insult and seem to think that although "Socialist" is an insult similar to "liberal" but that the really insulting thing to call people they don't like is "Nazi."

How cute that their little round Cromwellian heads do not fathom the notion that the values they espose are the traditonal Nazi values.

PattyP · 8 months ago

That's because their understanding of Nazis is limited to episodes of Hogan's Heroes.

Ed Drone · 8 months ago

You mean, "Ze know nozzink?"

Ed Drone

Indigo · 8 months ago

Uf-da!  You're right!  I hadn't thought of that.

Southern Beale · 8 months ago

Aw heck, that's how we roll here in Tennessee! We also have a Tennessee GOPer voting against a resolution apologizing for slavery, because, he says, ""it was a really long time ago."

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 8 months ago

Big Gulp servings of sugary soft drinks are obviously too small for that pig.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

Or the little piglets he's trying to ensure develops diabetes.

Deacon_Blues · 8 months ago

I tell my Chicago native wife on a daily basis that I want to move out of Tennessee (I'm a native Tennessean) and back to her home city, which I love. Tennessee politicians (on both sides of the aisle, with the exception of Steve Cohen) are corrupt, ignorant, and just plain stupid. It's no wonder our state is just about last in any category you care to name.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Yeah I live in TN also. I would love to get out of here. Am from Maryland where people are more open minded. My husband was adopted from Germany when he was a child of 5. He was brought here to TN when his parents retired from the military. The kids would call him a nazi all the time. Can you just think how it was for a young child who wasn't even born until way after WWII. I am proud of my husband. He gave back to this country which he loves and is a citizen. He hates it here also but we moved here cause his parents were old and sick. We still are here because we have a child and grandchild. That is all we have. The rest of my family is in Md. If I had to do it over I wouldn't of moved here because my mother-in-law never appreciated what I gave up til the day she died. I was always there for her even when she got up in her 80's and had to wash her and change her diapers. She always talked about the other 2 daughter-in-laws that lived in other states and never here. Not even when her husband died. Yep I sure wish I never moved down here. Well at least I have a wonderful grandchild that is the joy of our lives, even if she sounds like a redneck.

Deacon_Blues · 8 months ago

Well, speaking as a native Tennessean, there are lots of nice people here, but our politicians continually appeal to our baser instincts. Or they do the bidding of the lobbyists (hence our stupid liquor laws). I've about convinced my wife to at least retire to Chicago -- we won't see our kids as much, but they can come visit, and one doesn't live here anyway.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

You have a point about the politicans. I think you can find that in any state.

JustWondrin · 8 months ago

As a native Tennessean, and one who has travelled all over the country, I have seen this kind of stupidity everywhere. It usually gets more notice if it's somebody from Tennessee, though. I love it here and wouldn't move anywhere else to actually stay. I've spent a lot of time in Miami and LA, and there were some really ignorant rednecks there. We spend a lot of time in South Carolina, and you know that's a pool of dumbass.
But, the more you speak out about the right things to do, and the truth, the quicker it will change. Don't just write on blogs where most people already agree, write letters to the newspapers, or write on the newspapers online sites, where the comments come up immediately. GET LOUD!!!

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

You don't have to tell me about it. I have called my senators office, congressman office and I even called Zack Wamps office to tell him what I thought about his comment that healthcare was a priviledge not a right. He wasn't even in my district. You bet I call. I live in a very small, small town and people here are not as open minded like they are in the bigger cities in TN. I do love where I live because its quiet and I like that. My family is in Md and I miss them alot.

Personal Failure · 8 months ago

Wow, that guy in the background with the red striped tie is totally worth watching the video for. His reactions are priceless!

AdmNaismith · 8 months ago

Never mind that kids shouldn't be drinking soda at all.

Rufus · 8 months ago

Yes, indeed, the best and brightest serve as our politicians.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

There must be a way of offering these racist bumpkins a state where they all could live away from the rest of us. They would be happier and you know we would be. They are mainly, what is wrong with this country. Find one state that will secede and give it to them. I'd be willing to go back to 49 states if it would assure us that these mouth-breathers were out of our hair. Embarrassing is too gentle of a word to describe them. ;-)

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Lets send them to AK.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

;-) Since there are a few from which, we could choose, perhaps, since there are so many in the state of Tennessee, that should be the one to accept more people who think just like they do. It's a thought.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

But Alaska is a bigger state. Some of these people think government is bad so lets send them to AK where they can fend for themselves. By the way not all Tenneasans are bad people. Many are hard working and don't even realize that their policitians are screwing them over unless you tell them.

Ginger_FL · 8 months ago

Alaska wont' work...to many natural resources they can destroy.

I think we take DEATH VALLEY and turn it over to them. That way they can't ruin very much and they won't have any natural resources to exploit.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Ms Ginger that is a great suggestion. I am for that.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

I agree, this is never a black or white discussion or good or bad. For those who are continuing to vote these buffoons into office, then stay, but all the others should find another state since it looks like Tennessee is going to be the state where the retrobates are going to end up. ;-)
( at least in my pseudo-secedeing scenario. )

Actually, every state has their percentage of people not unlike the "good senator" throwing about "nutritional-nazi" in the chambers. They are too old to educate. ( or they just don't want to change )

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 8 months ago

part of the problem is 'tradition'... its hard for them to see themselves as rednecks, racists and bigots when everyone they know acts the same way and have for generations.

that's why the word 'progressive' has become a curse word down there... it means change, or evolution. which, of course, they don't believe in.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

All good points. It's too bad they continue to begat and begat and begat the next generations.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Yeah, sometimes its inbreeding.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

I understand it's hard to identify a suspect in a crime scene when they all have the same DNA.;-)

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Now that is funny

Butch1 · 8 months ago

My pleasure. . .

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Ya'll welcome now.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

Well, that's down right neighborly of ya'll. ;-)

Ginger_FL · 8 months ago

Welcome to MY world....REDneckIstan
These idiots will come right out and TELL you whether they are a REDNECK or HICK

Blows me away....Ignorance is rewarded. LOTS of money for sports programs to the point they hire COACHES and turn them into TEACHERS !!

Yes that's right....it's more important to keep a coach on the payroll and make them an unqualified teacher than to HIRE a Qualified teacher.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

I live in TN and I can tell you this wackadoodle doesn't even realize what he said. It is just sad to see porky insult someone for asking a perfectly good question. I don't understand why he had to say that. I hope he is admonished for it.

Joe Blow · 8 months ago

Well he should have called him a nazi pig!

That would have hurt!

okojo · 8 months ago

Whoa John! yes Mr. Bunch used the wrong choice of words, whether he was addressing State Senator Burke or anyone else, but Burke voted yes on the bill as well. If anyone seems to need a "nutritional nazi" it is State Senator Bunch. I am not one to parse words, but "Nutritional Nazi" is a bit different than "Nazi". It doesn't mean I condone Senator Bunch's choice of words, but I do think there is a difference..

cowboyneok · 8 months ago

Yes, the Republicans in Tennessee are bad, but I'll call and raise you with our lovely Republicans in Oklahoma ANY time! Talk about a bunch of neanderthals!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 8 months ago

yeah but... at least you KNOW how bad they are.

I'm in California... which, until the election anyway, I considered a liberal state.

the hidden bigots are sometimes worse.

cowboyneok · 8 months ago

You have a very good point. I like knowing who my enemies are. I hate it when I think they are an ally then throw me under the bus. Its MUCH better when they are obvious enemies.

michaelt · 8 months ago

my wife is from tenn. so i know there are decent people there.


they are just greatly outnumbered.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 8 months ago

The most decent of all: Dolly Parton

Al Gore's OK, too.

Kevin · 8 months ago

to balance the idiocy of the joke he was attempting to make - he did come back and apologize after someone told him...

lucky hussein · 8 months ago

soft drink and vending of any kind should never be allowed in schools..

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 8 months ago

In DeWayne's World:

Feminist: Feminazi

Nutritionist: Food Nazi

Gay Person: Gay Nazi

shano · 8 months ago

Let us keep pumping the younger generations full of HFCS laced with mercury.

I swear, Big Agra makes us sick so Big Pharma can sell us pills.

Diabetes is a modern epidemic in this US America. Autism is a modern epidemic in this US America.

Think mercury in corn syrup (subsidized by the government, no less) and HFCS might have something to do with this?
Do not eat this shit-it is poison, and we are poisoning our kids with these corporate products.

Just look at this man, Bunch. Does he look like a healthy man?

KLG · 8 months ago

Nutritional Nazi is not the same as Nazi, but I'd be willing to bet that the corpulent state senator uses the word "jew" as a verb and has not a clue that he shouldn't.

Ginger_FL · 8 months ago

I don't approve of any of the school food and really hate the idea of giving out candy and soda to kids.
Try sitting in a movie theater next to 2 ten year olds loaded up on AMP !!!
There should be an age limit to purchase that crap !!!

Older_Wiser · 8 months ago

Bunch was just trying to get one of his buddies a better school concession, folks. Of course, he knew he was insulting Berke at the same time, so he got a two-fer. Southerners go for the cheap shot a lot...thinking it's clever.

ChrisM70 · 8 months ago

Perhaps I don't understand the finer points of Tennessee politics, but at the end of the video, it looks like they BOTH voted YES.

He couldn't have been that much of a "nutritional Nazi" if he ended up voting FOR the bill, could he? I guess he really didn't oppose it that much...

Roadkill Bill · 8 months ago

I am a native Tennessean, and lived there until a few years ago.

The most amazing part of the clip is the guy that cringed, Sen. Tim Burchett.

Why? He's the same guy that in 1999 introduced the road kill bill (that allows for eating of road kill, and before you insert your joke, I'm willing to bet that whatever state you live, you have a similar law).

He also introduced a billing wanting to ban all books from public schools that had references to homosexuality. He quickly withdrew the legislation after realizing that the Bible would be on his list of banned books.

The fact that he realized his colleagues mistake is truly amazing. I must have underestimated his political savvy. No, he's still an idiot.

SouthernYankee · 8 months ago

Don't laugh but my husband's cousin who is a redneck would pickup a dead animal in the road. No really he would.

hauksdottir · 8 months ago

We usually think of roadkill as snakes or squirrels, but what do you do if a deer crashes into your car? That happened to a ranger in Yosemite a couple decades ago. He turned it into venison, and threw a feast for his friends. That is better than wasting it!

If you just find something on the side of the road, you probably should use the Field Guide to identify it before throwing the meat into a crockpot. If you can't identify it, you don't want to know. ;^)

I'm surprised that there would be laws about it. I can see restaurants avoiding food with unknown provenance (otherwise, they might end up accidentally serving somebody's yapping doggie with mint sauce). But if you live in a rural area and your goats or cows wander off? You might as well make the best of it.

Now, banning the Bible from public schools is a great idea. Slavery, murder, incest? Hasn't the south suffered enough?

roystah · 8 months ago

lol oh lord. where do i start.

This guy can't tell the difference in nutritional values of a 8oz can of soda vs a 12 oz can of soda. That's pretty amazing. Also explained his figure. lol

Yeah of course if someone wants MORE sugar, he/she can purchases TWO cans to circumvent that issue. Except with the high obesity rate in this country I had no idea we were in campaign to encourage school kids to drink more soda.

FloJo · 8 months ago

Anon-

Yeah, I love it when I'm called a Nazi. It's a real endearing term. Especially if you're Jewish. Idiot.

texasbob · 8 months ago

C'mon now. Talk about making mountains out of molehills. The GOPer may be an idiot but he did not call the Jewish delegate a Nazi. He said "if you are going to be the nutritional Nazi police," in which phrase the word "you" meant anyone, not the questioning delegate. The GOPer's point about kids evading limits on can size by simply buying more cans was perfectly valid. I suppose you think that Seinfeld's "soup Nazi" episode was anti-Semitic? Regrettable as it is to use the term loosely at all, "Nazi" in this context has come to mean someone overly zealous, and this appears to be how the GOPer used it....not as a was to call the Jewish delegate a Nazi. There is so much wrong with this country and especially with the GOP that trivial and nonsensical attacks such as yours in this instance do "the reality-based community" and public discourse in general no good. They're just signs of zealousness, lack of a sense of proportion, and poor judgment.

Julie · 8 months ago

Bunch just cashed his big check from the soda pop lobby. Bunch says something about giving more access to more vendors on campus...I don't want them to have access to my children with their poison drinks. Look at all the fat kids, and fat senators we have in this country hiking up everyone's insurance rates with their obesity related health problems. The nazi statement was a dick response to a valid question.

Battle-chooser · 8 months ago

I'd be careful about making too much of this. Choose your battles, John A. I find myself more concerned about Mr. Bunch's motivations relative to those who stand to make a profit from 12 oz. soda cans...and the question of whether such products should be sold in middle schools in the first place. (And at the same time, it looks like Mr. Bunch might be addicted to refined carbohydrates himself.)

JackDallasQueer · 8 months ago

Mmmm...let's do the math here...FAT...white...and name is Dewayne??? Yup...looks like white trash to me.

Ed Boudreau · 8 months ago

This site seems to be Jewish sensitive. The guy used a term that is used widely in the US and not with reference to the Holocaust but to a form of authoritarian government. This site seems more like a FOX for Jewish causes..

Joe Millraney · 8 months ago

I would have to wonder had there been no Jewish member of the Senate would Mr. Bunch have made such a comment to the remainder of his colleagues? Is it that easy for frustation to give way to name calling...certainly from a term that would illicit such shock? But then again, small minds think small!