I think the real demographic he is trying to reach is those actual people that sell propane and propane accessories.

Holy mother of God on a propane valve.

Watching Democrats trying to figure out Red Country voters is funnier than watching a dog trying to figure out a doorknob.

The funniest thing about this clueless NYT article is the subtext... "'perhaps, through careful academic deconstruction of 'King of the Hill,' we will learn the secret Jesusland code that will allow us to communicate with these ignorant racist Christer WalMart-apes, and enlighten them to oppose the holocaust at Gitmo."

Cripes, this entire farce article would make a hilarious story line for KOTH, if it weren't so self-referenced.

I love KOTH and have since it first came on the air. It's conservative without being preachy about it, and it's genuinely funny. The writing is very sharp -- far better than The Simpsons was at the same point, and that's saying something.

What I like most about the show is how decent it is. Hank hews to the old values of a good day's work for a good day's pay; subdued but honest patriotism; religion (but not too much); and a tolerance for...well, just about everything. His best friends are a conspiracy freak, a loser, and a Lothario with a speech impediment; his neighbor is an annoying Laotian; and his son often just ain't right.

KOTH is one of the best shows on TV, I tell you what.

"when they start trashing the park where he likes to go camping and drinking with his buddies, he's incensed," Easley said.

If that isn't a Liberal put down I don't know what is. As if the only time a southerner cares about the environment is when he's ankle deep in beer cans and trash where he and the other buffoons go drinking and picnicing! He's such a hypocrite and a selfish slob he only cares about the environment when it affects him directly!

"This is the first show about Southerners since Andy Griffith that didn't make fun of the South," he said.

And yet it does. All the Liberal stereotypes are still there, they're just more subtle and less in-your-face. The white male charachters are universally ignorant, childish, often mean spitited and always "common" in the worst sense. This may actually be funny, but it is a falsehood based upon old Liberal stereotypes and it reinforces them. As one who came from the North and now lives in the south, I can see all the assumptions and stereotypes that northerners have about southerners and how false they really are.

... "King of the Hill" avoids mentioning political parties and tries to examine social issues rather than indoctrinating viewers.... "You can't find an issue that's bedeviling our society that we haven't dealt with,"

Of course not, that's what Liberals do! They try to change the world through pontificating from the bully pulpit of television.

Easley attributes the show's popularity with its viewers to a lack of what he calls political snobbery.

Only a right-to-the-bone Liberal political snob could have such an astounding lack of self awareness that they can't see their own political snobbery.

Monty I agree 110% and I would just add that Hank is tolerant until he's had enough then "I am going to kick your ass" . Beautiful.

The fark-tards are in the midst of another leftie-rightie political feud, which of course completely misses the point of KOTH: it's not about being Democrat or Republican. It's really about being rural and suburban. It's about living in that vast plot of flyover country between L.A. and New York. It's about plain food, plain talk, NASCAR, high school football, cookouts, and Church on Sundays.

It is, in short, what American life looks like in most small towns everywhere.

(One of my favorite shows was the one where Hank agrees to go with Peggy to a Boggle tournament just so he can go to a mower show. Any show that can work in a joke about the "Snapper precision mowing team" and "King Mulch" is okay in my book.)

Hank is decent because most people really are, and it is refreshing to see on TV. It is a sad but true commentary that decency on TV is so unusual.

When I was young, stupid and Liberal (yes, I confess it, I was once sort of Liberalish) I loathed Andy of Mayberry. But as a sober conservative Christian, I can see now how decent, kind and truly tolerant of the little foibles and universal human weaknesses it really was.

I like South Park. It takes some real shots at Liberalism while not reinforcing Liberal stereotypes. I wonder if the ACE has anything to do with it, like those little ACE & Karol pix for Rightalk. I'm sure he'd love to.

Iowahawk

'perhaps, through careful academic deconstruction of 'King of the Hill,' we will learn the secret Jesusland code

Great line that! And so true.

PS - Hows El Diablo? Gideon said to tell him hi and to make sure he doesn't lay down with any more dogs and catch anything again. (I saw him in a dream, I no longer partake of the pipe).

BOBBY: Maybe it's just like you said: to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish. We just have to think like hippies.
HANK: That is impossible.
BOBBY: Come on, Dad, just try. Okay: I'm a hippie, and I'm naked because I smoked all my clothes.

Hank stole my bitch.

In what freakin alternative universe is Hank Hill NOT a Republican? Oh, not a card-carrying member, but that's the way he votes.

Or does "Democrat" mean "Republican lite" in Texas? I know it used to ...