Johnny Rebs blame/thank Dan Ruth for the giant Confederate flag
December 29, 2008 at 12:14 pm by Wayne GarciaThe Tampa Bay chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has criticized former Tampa Tribune/current St. Petersburg Times op-ed contributor Daniel Ruth before because of his anti-confederate flag columns (he called them “narrow-minded simpletons” in this one), but this is a new high/low: the group has erected a sign thanking/blaming Ruth.
The group’s e-mail blast on it reads as follows:
On behalf of the Jubal A. Early Camp 556 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, we wish you a Happy New Year!
Our Confederate Memorial Park located near the I-4 and I-75 intersection in east Tampa is nearing completion. Please be advised that we have scheduled the dedication ceremony of the Confederate Memorial Park for Saturday, April 25, 2009 – the day before Confederate Memorial Day.
Please note the attached photograph. The sign reflects the following: Future Home of Hillsborough County’s Confederate Memorial Park, an effort of the Florida Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans “Flags Across Florida,” www.tampascv.org <http://www.tampascv.org/> , www.tampaflag.info <http://www.tampaflag.info/> . We would like to acknowledge Mr. Daniel Ruth, columnist for the Tampa Tribune, who, through his arrogance, intellectual and moral dishonesty, and insensitivity, was the real catalyst for the creation and development of this project.
In memory of Compatriot Bart Siegel, 1958-2008. “Heritage or Hate … Let’s Debate” – Bart H. Siegel
December 29th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Ruth is gone, and good riddance to bad rubbish.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The wretched ruth served a useful purpose after all.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Mr. Ruth’s constant attack on those who revere their Southron/Confederate past did indeed help to invigorate the apathetic and inspire the committed to further efforts.
It just goes to show that sometimes one’s enemies are one’s best friends. However, alas, often the opposite is true.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Daniel Ruth is a clown. He ought to live in Gib-town with the rest of the circus and sideshow performers. His op-eds are a collection of ludicrous jokes, slightly above the level of writing on shithouse walls, but not much.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hurrah for our Southern MEN! The Jubal A. Early Camp 556! I wish there were a million just like ya!
December 30th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
?Now that Dan Ruth and his vitriol have succeeded in poisoning the water cooler at the Tampa
Tribune, and all the pink slips have been placed in the Christmas Stockings; I am looking
forward to watch him sink the Good Ship SS St. Pete Times. Mr. Garcia, let this be a lesson to
you, and your standing among your fellow men. Why be such a whore? Do you really think that
you should get a paycheck because you do not know the difference between your vices and your
politics? Do you really think such a moniker will play well when you meet your maker? Once all the old lions of slanderous, slovenly journalism have passed away, perhaps a new Generation of
men such as Ernie Pyle may yet arise. Meanwhile, enjoy the just desserts: indolence, shame and
obesity.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
You dumb saps, you raised the Confederate flag for a journalist?
You guys are a mockery to any sense of Southern pride, and remembrance of Southern dead.
This Stephen Colbert video remains an accurate illustration:
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/2008/06/11/colbert-on-the-confederate-flag/
December 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
In addition, I knew your Compatriot Bart Siegel, too well.
“Arrogance, intellectual and moral dishonesty, and insensitivity” would be a fitting epitaph.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
The Confederate soldiers were the sons and grandsons of patriots of The American Revolution !
They are the true defenders of the Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution, NOT the Yankee war criminals on the other side.
Hope you are doin’ well Mr. Ruth. P.S. “Bloody Bill” Rides !!
December 30th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I don’t know who “Keith” is, but like all cowards and moral illiterates, he hasn’t signed his name. God help us all but he is a sign of what this nation has become: stupid, ugly, bigoted, hateful and worthless – very appropriate given the man he apparently supports, Daniel Ruth.
Keith (or whatever your name is), Bart Siegel was a thousand times the man you can ever hope to be and I would suggest that you should be ashamed but looking at our present culture, one doubts that you even know what shame is.
Fortunately, however, there are still people who are all that you are not: decent, Godly, moral and intelligent. The the men and women who raised the Tampa flag did so in defense of America’s founding principles which this sorry nation long ago abandoned to pander to the poverty pimps, race mongers and professional politicians.
Ronald Reagan once said that politics was the SECOND oldest profession and that it really wasn’t all the different from the FIRST oldest profession. Doubtless you are ignorant of what that is just as you are ignorant of so many other things – like civility and honor. Look it up; you might learn something. But then, I doubt it very much from what I’ve seen here.
December 31st, 2008 at 12:13 am
Didn’t Bart Siegheil er Siegel go the way of Kurt Cobain? Guess he was willing to stand by the big ole flag, huh. And what’s the purpose of slamming Dan Ruth for telling the truth? Stings like a bitch, don’t it!
What I’d really like to see is a famous rapper “sample” the Confederate flag design and change its colors to black, yellow and green. That would really piss the goobers off and hopefully neutralize the subject once and for all.
December 31st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
These so-called sons of confederate Veterans (small caps on purpose) are nothing but modern day, KKK, racist pigs.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I don’t know who Valerie Protopapas is, I have never heard of you despite the fact that you have penned your name to an ignorant rant.
“Stupid, ugly, bigoted, hateful and worthless” could well describe the current strategy of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans. Bart Siegel was no son of the South, philosophically or physically, he was a fundamentalist Jewish guy from New Jersey who like all fundamentals, hated anyone who was not exactly like him, and he let everyone know. And yes, he took his own life.
The local SCV is on the wrong path, remembering the Southern dead does not equate to creating a carnival-like atmosphere of hate, stupidity and ignorance. You desire to be the flag bearers of the South, but the South you longingly remember as you sip your Buds, never existed. Y’all are nothing more than the latest group to use the often sad story of the South towards your own myopic ends, for that you should be ashamed, but I know you aren’t.
Regarding improving our current culture, you might try being a force for the good and the right and the just, rather than just making things worse.
The people who raised the Tampa flag have nothing to do with the honor, decency and courage that is, was, and ever shall be The South. You are dividers that live by the sword, and you’ll perish by your own sword.
I’ve just read the Reconstruction Trilogy of Thomas Dixon Jr., “Ecology of a Cracker Childhood” by Janisse Ray, and Douglas Blackmon’s “Slavery by Another Name”. You maudlin saps have no clue to what the real South is, go back to your re-enactments, play acting, and historical fantasies.
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
As a Southerner who has spent much of his life in the North (Pennsylvania and Ohio) I want to express my sincerest gratitude to the Florida Sons of Confederate Veterans for their gallant efforts in defending our proud and noble Southern heritage.
January 7th, 2009 at 11:34 am
It should be called “The Confederate Memorial Trailer Park.”
January 10th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
My ancestors kicked your ancestors butts!
Why do Y’all keep bringing it up?
Losers!
February 20th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
A merry heart goes all the way