It is reasonable and even wise to get worked up into a frothing, self-righteous rage based on nothing more than 15 seconds of heavily-edited footage from Fox News.

In her defense, no food stamp card ever threw a tantrum and cried for hours at a time and demanded candy while constantly pooping and throwing up.

Townleybomb, hate the playa not the game.

"No, I really dont because if they had been there by themselves, I dont know if the boys set the house on for or somebody threw something in there to set it on fire. I really need to get in there to see if my purse burned up. I had my Food Stamp Card and everything in there."


OK you go ahead and walk me through how you think that was taken out of context with evil editing. Or do you think its all fake? maybe she was really crying while saying this and they removed the tears with CG?

Townley: I'm not a fan of Fox News, but this is a local news station that just happens to be on the Fox Network. It's not like it's O'Reilly interviewing the woman on his standard beat of the Memphis area. I've watched the local Fox news in Sacramento for years and never seen the same agenda that is so brazenly presented on the Fox News Network. The story doesn't present much of her side of the story, so yes, maybe there is more to it than what is presented, but regardless of how it's edited that is a very inhuman seeming response to the news that your two and three year old nephews probably just burned to death. This woman would be shown no matter if it was Fox, NBC, or CNN. If a reporter gets this sort of reaction during an interview there is no way they're going to not show it.
I agree that this woman is by far the most evil thing I've seen on this website. Anyone who cares more about her god damn food stamps than her living, breathing, nephews is evil.

I bet abortion wasn't legal when she had her kids.

TTM, you don't know what the reporter asked her between those sentences or how long the interview was. It's obvious it was edited. People are usually dumb when being interviewed, and she's already got a head start.

I agree with Hay Belly.
This one time? I totally saw this video of Bush singing Sunday Bloody Sunday. Only later did I discover that it had been edited together. True story.

For a city with 650,000 people, it's a decent shithole in a few areas. Flat and Hot with a lot of Poverty which most of the upper crust ignores.

South Memphis (or 'souf memphus' as it is known to the locals) is full of a lot of poor people and a lot of them don't have much education.

However, if you are looking for Barbecue, you couldn't have chosen a better city.

Memphis represent!

It's got a decent little downtown area, too, with lots of hole-in-the-wall museums. Also there is a lot of good food here, not just barbecue (which is inSANE, it must be said).

But uh yeah. Kind of a racist old shitbox in several places. If The Wire has taught me anything, it's that Baltimore is worse.

Hyper-aggressive bums.

Pretty much, yeah. Segregated in every way imaginable. An island of the privileged surrounded and completely oblivious to unimaginable poverty, squalor, and suffering. And that's just in Memphis, it gets worse when you look at Shelby county as a whole. It's like a case study in white flight. The fire scenes are always bad in Memphis compared to not Memphis.

But, hey, there's a glorious pizza place off Union and a kickass down-funk cafe off McLean. The barbecue is overrated, though. The place is great if you can turn a blind eye to suffering of fellow humans.

Can't be worse than Detroit, can it?

I think Jerry Lawler would be a fantastic selection for mayor of this.

Camonk, you're in Memphis? If I'd known, I would have offered to buy you a beer or two (at the Flying Saucer, perhaps?) the last time I was out that way.

I am, and I'm getting used to it. Slowly. A couple of my friends here are native Memphians and they keep trying to tell me how cool it is.

Note: they are white people! From Germantown and Cordoba. So uh.

"The barbecue is overrated, though."

If you are going to a place that doesn't have bars on the windows, then you're not having real barbecue.

Well, shit. A friend of mine was stationed out at Millington for the last couple years, so I was in town probably two-three times a year. Oh well!

Are there really this many PoErs in Memphis, or does everybody just have really strong opinions about the place? That's my question.

I'm not in Memphis itself, but am 1 1/2 hours away, with a line of family members pointing to the city, until you get to one of my sisters who goes to college there. So yeah, I go there pretty frequently. Around where I live you have New Orleans and Memphis, and Memphis is somewhat cleaner.

I live in Saint Louis now but I lived in Memphis for a couple of months.

The Exiled seems to think so, and they've been right about everything else so far.

http://tinyurl.com/lo98dw
http://exiledonline.com/memphis-where-the-oligarchs-eat-their- fellow-americans/

Nah, needs uneducated minority tag. Whitey from Colorado could probably play ball with this. We just don't have the news story to prove it yet.

i think you mean her humanity, ROUS.

What kind of man would "cut her grass"?

Nothing to do with that lady is euphemistic for ANYTHING