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Published Thursday, July 14, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

NO HOOTERS FOR COOTER? From the I-cannot-make-this-up files comes word from Ben "Cooter" Jones urging fans of the 1970s show The Dukes of Hazzard to boycott the upcoming summer film remake. Plenty of good reasons to avoid the film, to be sure. But Cooter suggests that Dukes was "a classic family show with positive values" -- as in, running moonshine and having your cousin use her sexy short shorts to break the boys out of jail? Seriously? And he wonders why people still use the same stereotypical punchlines about the South...