Posted on 08/25/2013 11:34:43 AM PDT by smoothsailing
August 25, 2013
Jeannie DeAngelis
The president is impugning the Republicans as well as radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, but maybe he should blame the Robertsons of Duck Dynasty.
As President Obama’s poll numbers have plummeted to a point where only 47% of those low-information likely voters still approve of his job performance, an A&E cable reality show featuring a close knit-family of God-fearing, pro-life, gun-toting, beard-sporting, patriotic entrepreneurs from the backwoods of bayou Louisiana is growing in popularity weekly.
Much to Barack Obama’s chagrin, the Robertson family’s God-and-country values evidently appeal to the nearly 11.8 million viewers who tune in. That’s why a show that embraces everything Barack Obama rejects, and personifies everything he spurns, is poised to make cable history.
The fact that a family from West Monroe, Louisiana, is gaining more and more recognition proves that besides their “guns and religion,” Obama’s vision and values are not the same vision and values most Americans cling to.
Phil Robertson, patriarch of Duck Dynasty, was a college football star that turned down an offer from the Washington Redskins because it interfered with duck season. Phil went on to build a mom-and-pop business and called it the Duck Commander.
Then, after Phil’s son Willie graduated from business school, he helped his father turn Duck Commander into a multimillion-dollar operation. As a result, the Duck Commander now employs half the Robertson’s neighborhood.
That kind of selfish, self-centered, small-business-owner attitude is exactly the type of behavior the president has attempted to discourage for the past five years.
What could be worse for Barack Obama than a family who’s made a fortune selling duck calls fashioned out of salvaged swamp cedar wood somehow managing to capture the level of attention that Obama himself craves?
To make matters worse, his rivals are prayerful, bullfrog-eating, deer-hunting men with ZZ Top beards, pickup trucks, and red, white, and blue bandannas.
The president probably doesn’t realize it just yet, but without ever mentioning Barack Obama’s name, Duck Dynasty American dream hijinks have subtly exposed his liberal drivel for what it is: drivel.
Yet President Obama, who actually tells people that he still “got some game,” continues to perceive himself as the patriarch of his own dynasty.
When not adjusting his newspaper crown he remains very busy pushing a healthcare system no one wants, demanding Americans’ tax dollars pay for abortions most of them reject, and running around the country like a hyperactive schoolboy. Obama remains indefatigable in trying to convince a nation who disapproves of almost everything he does, that progressive liberalism is the way to go.
One would imagine that if Press Secretary/Presidential Propagandist Jay Carney were asked what the President thinks about the Duck Dynasty phenomenon, Carney would likely say the President hasn’t watched the show. And why would he? The Robertsons’ redneck rags-to-riches story illustrates the totality of everything Barack Obama has tried to either destroy or demonize.
Rest assured, if the president’s popularity continues to wane expect Obama – much like he did with Rush Limbaugh – to try to point the finger of blame at Duck Dynasty and their rebellious audience for encouraging the Republicans in Congress to thwart his plans to move America “FORWARD.”
All white Christian men are to blame.
Seems like a good match - the T.E.A. Party and Duck Commander ...
Expect Axelrod to tell us this ‘free speech virus’ has to be curbed.
Holder is investigating why none of the brothers are black.
DD is the polar opposite to Obama. The show is about love - family, friends, God, country. Obama hates, insults, lies and divides.
The Robertsons are smart, unpretentious, humorous and interesting. Whereas Obama is...
There are lots of alphabets that can be turned loose on this family. When done they won’t have a tent to put up on the side of the road if they wanted to. Better to bleed them slowly over years and years till they have nothing left.
Has, will, and can be done. Examples are all over the country.
Till they get the billionaire label and can pay off the politic-whores then you get your live free card.
Happened to Google till they made the right payoffs.
Even though google is evil they still demanded and got the extra tribute.
Or you can just outright buy your own politic-whore and then you’re fine.
Please, let’s not give him any more ideas who to blame.
Not really. Their duck calls are an excellent product. Someone asked them to be on a duck hunting show on cable -- Duck Commander on the Outdoor Channel. Then they did a Buck Commander show about deer hunting, also on Outdoor. They had proven audience appeal, and as you can see, Willie has a great eye for marketing; so voilà, Duck Dynasty was the next step.
Willie and his wife adopted a black child years before Brangelina, Sandra Bullock and Madonna did. They weren't doing it to be fashionable, but because they learned of a child in some unfortunate circumstances and they did a good thing.
-— DD is the polar opposite to Obama. The show is about love - family, friends, God, country. Obama hates, insults, lies and divides.-—
Phil has more wisdom in his pinky than The Commie and the Yeti combined.
No, not at all.
Donkey Kong cannot come soon enough!
No, it was never intended like that at all.
“My lib relatives really like that show”
Well, that is very interesting!
Perhaps they are looking down on them and making fun?
Can you translate what you wrote into English for me, please?
Not up on the lingo.
Thanks.
The grumpiest of them doesn’t like the show, the wife really talked it up. I’d never previously heard of it.
Hilarious!
I def enjoy it and like Uncle Si.
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