Home Daily Rant | You Don’t Like My Accent?
Virginia

Daily Rant | You Don’t Like My Accent?

Chris Graham

The flap over Creigh Deeds’ stuttering is turning into something more. Commenters on the AFP and other websites are saying the way Deeds talks is an indication that he’s, well, stupid. AFP editor Chris Graham thinks it’s a anti-Mountain Virginia bias thing, and details his upset to that effect in today’s Daily Rant. AFP Video. Length: 2:19.

Support AFP




Chris Graham

Chris Graham

Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to Substack or his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

Latest News

softball
Etc.

Letter to UVA President details concerns about culture in UVA Softball program

cade cavalli
Baseball

Cade Cavalli says he’s sorry for ‘sit down, boy’ epithet: Whatever

Whether you want to buy the apology from Cade Cavalli for his use of the racial epithet “boy” to punctuate a strikeout of Willson Contreras or not, it is what it is.

summer heat overheat temperature weather
U.S. & World

Tips for beating the record heat if you’re heading to DC for the Fourth

Not that there’s a good reason to be in Washington, D.C., for the Fourth of July, but if you’re headed to the nation’s capital for that stupid fake state fair, be prepared for record heat.

interstate 81 i-81
Virginia

Shenandoah County: Tractor trailer strikes disabled vehicle, killing motorist

newspapers
Local

24 years and counting: AFP marks anniversary of July 2, 2002, launch

Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith
Local

Augusta County: Ways our citizens can hold our law-breaking sheriff accountable

mailman delivering mail in mail truck to mailbox
Local

Augusta County: One dead in head-on collision with USPS box truck