A Friendly Disagreement

By Kleinheider Posted on May 9, 2008 at 12:46 pm

R. Neal hits up a fellow progressive blogger for poking at bit of fun at West Virginia voters:

The scene is from the movie Deliverance. It was filmed on the Chattooga River, which is the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Obama won both of those primaries. Other scenes were filmed in North Carolina. Obama won that primary, too.

The “banjo boy” was a child actor selected during a casting call at Clayton Elementary School in Clayton, Georgia. He did not actually play the banjo. The recorded banjo playing was performed by Eric Weissberg, who studied music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Juilliard School of Music. (Coincidentally, Obama also won the Wisconsin primary.)

So in the final analysis, the political humor backfires given the strong Obama connection to “dueling banjos.” Political humorists should find a better vehicle for poking fun at West Virginia voters.

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