Albemarle-based musician, and

from YES! Weekly - August 19, 2020

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Albemarle-based musician and comedian Stuart Baker is su ering national backlash after calling Dolly Parton a “bimbo” and “slut” and accusing her of “surrendering her race and culture” in response to Parton’s support of Black Lives Matter. Baker is best-known nationally for voicing Early Cuyler, the drunken head

Ian McDowell of a country clan of dysfunctional mollusks on the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies, which was created in

Contributor 2005 by Jim Fortier and Wake Forrest University alumni Dave Willis (Aqua Teen Hunger Force). The show was recently renewed for a 13th season, but it will be without Baker, who was fi red on Friday. As a musician, Baker has enjoyed a strong regional following for his “rockabilly vampire” persona Unknown Hinson, which he created on the Charlotte-based public access T.V. show The Wild Wild South in 1992. He has been a popular draw at such Triad venues as The Ramkat and The Blind Tiger. He last performed in Greensboro on May 1 and was rescheduled for July, and canceled due to COVID-19.

On Aug. 13, Dolly Parton told Billboard Magazine, “Of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” That night, Baker responded to Parton on his Stuart Baker Unknown Hinson Facebook page with a series of now-deleted public Facebook posts: So, now this freak titted, old Southern bimbo is a BLM Lover? Remember, slut, Rednecks made you a Millionaire! Yeah leave. Leave Liberals! Unfriend me, please. Because I don’t want you UN-AMERICANS around! Have fun becoming an Eloi or something without a thought of your own where you bow down to the ALLKNOWING-MINORITY! HAVE FUN forsaking your own race, culture and heritage. Have a nice time! Dolly is on her knees sucking one. On her knees, like everybody else. Surrendering her race and culture like everyone else for popularity gain. If you’re white, wake up!

On Saturday, Baker posted an apology, which was also subsequently deleted. That same day, the Ohio-based company Reverend Guitars, which has been o ering an Unknown Hinson signature guitar model, replied to a post about Baker on the company’s Facebook page: We are no longer associated with Unknown Hinson. We have stopped production on his guitars and we have removed him from our website.

On Sunday, Squidbillies creators Willis and Fortier tweeted the following statement: ‘antifa.’ A while back, someone sent me

comment. ! an email that a deranged neo-ConfedWe are aware of the extremely o ensive and derogatory social media posts made late last week by Stuart D. Baker. The views he expressed do not refl ect our own personal values of the show that we and many others have worked hard to produce over the past 15 years. For those reasons, production of ‘Squidbillies’ will continue without Mr. Baker, e ective immediately. On Monday, Baker made another Facebook post: Folks, I’ve been fi red from my Cartoon Show, lost my endorsements and my chance of ever being booked by any Music Venue as Unknown Hinson again. I just hope you assholes are happy you took a good Man and talent down. You succeeded. Be proud that you ruined a person’s life all because of the Freak Show called “Dolly Parton and BLM.” Thanks a lot. I gave my best to you assholes for 30 years. I guess you just love to kick someone when they’re down. That’s so twisted IAN MCDOWELLis the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfi ction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

sheri or police o¢ cer always arrests both parties.

Sheri Johnson moves forward, stepping between Ayling and the couple. At that point, the video ends.

Ayling told YES! Weekly that, after she turned o her video, “other anti-racists started pointing out that the woman in the video was getting in my face, trying to start a fi ght. Terry Johnson said that I started it.”

She also gave the following description:

“The husband of Ms. Baird said something like, ‘if you come at my wife ever again,’ and Johnson tried to prevent the anti-racists from coming to help me. I turned away to track Johnson because I was more interested in videoing him than the aggressive racists. I have that part on video too, and Johnson’s comment that I started it, but I didn’t tweet it because it also has the faces of some anti-racists.”

In the same Twitter message, Ayling gave YES! Weekly the following statement:

“If you do get ahold of Johnson, you may want to ask him why he thinks I’m erate sent to Johnson, a bunch of other LEOs, and journalists accusing me of terrorism and saying I was an ‘antifa leader” (which has been a common accusation ever since neo-Nazi Daniel McMahon started stalking me obsessively. McMahon is currently in prison, but before he was arrested, he communicated with a ton of locals and sent them info on me).”

Daniel McMahon of Brandon, Florida, was arrested by the United States Justice Department in September of 2019 and indicted on counts of “willful interference with a candidate for elective o¢ ce, biasmotivated interference with a candidate for elective o¢ ce, threats to injure interstate commerce and cyber stalking.”

The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a man on Aug. 12, who has long coordinated death threats, harassment and personal information exposure throughout the country, including toward University of North Carolina students and faculty. His threats toward Ayling and other UNC students and faculty have been covered in The Daily Tarheel and The Tampa Bay Times. The Alamance County Sheri ’s O¢ ce has not responded to YES! Weekly’s several calls and email requests for comment. The woman claiming to be “Elizabeth Baird” could not be reached to and perverted. Again, thanks! I’ll remember you bastards! !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfi ction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.