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‘Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Pajama Boy’: Two Americas?
The Daily Caller ^ | December 18, 2013 | Matt K. Lewis

Posted on 12/19/2013 2:03:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 12/19/2013 2:03:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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That isn’t really true. There are not two Americas. There is one America and one anti-America and never the twain shall meet.


2 posted on 12/19/2013 2:13:55 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: MestaMachine

Well put.


3 posted on 12/19/2013 2:15:49 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

.....just another facet of the attack on Christians. A set up, lead by GQ, to dampen the success of a very popular TV program where each episode ends with a prayer. They never stop.


4 posted on 12/19/2013 2:16:26 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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The writer makes a good point that the outrage is driven by country/city differences as much as the Christian/atheist dichotomy.

I'll add the conflict of plain-speaking versus polite dissembling.

5 posted on 12/19/2013 2:23:03 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Yeah. The truth has a funny way of being...the truth...and it is usually pretty straightforward.


6 posted on 12/19/2013 2:31:43 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Phil Robertson is in very good company. Jesus and Christianity's opponents used to denigrate Him and his rough-hewn apostles regularly. “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” [John 7:15] He and His disciples spoke the unvarnished truth; Robertson speaks Biblical truth.

Dennis Prager has written about the two irreconcilable Americas.

7 posted on 12/19/2013 2:34:28 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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Sacrificing truth on the alter of political correctness is what the left does and what it demands everyone else do as well.


8 posted on 12/19/2013 2:35:55 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: MestaMachine

When you make your point with very few words it is a powerful thing.


9 posted on 12/19/2013 2:40:19 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: Doogle; 2ndDivisionVet; All
Email the Robertson family; tell them to stand strong and united behind a father who spoke Biblical truth. “We love to hear from our fans! Drop us an email at fanmail@duckcommander.com .”

Email A & E at feedbackaetv@aenetworks.com . Tell ‘em you’ll be happy to dump both the network and its sponsors for its craven cowardice in kowtowing to the hectoring “Free speech for me, but not for thee” whimperers.

10 posted on 12/19/2013 2:55:05 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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"The mobs of great cities add just so much to support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body,"

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get plied upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."

Thomas Jefferson

11 posted on 12/19/2013 3:16:05 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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What I don’t get is why a Christian would do an interview with such a godless, metrosexual magazine to begin with. You have to know that they will bait you with such trap questions.


12 posted on 12/19/2013 3:43:04 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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Perhaps Phil knew full well he would be expressing the truth about homosexuality. Maybe he wanted this boil lanced.

Phil basically said (except for the whole vagina vs. anus part) what all Christian preachers should be saying from the pulpits of America (and Canada). Are they now guilty of “hate” speech as well? What would the lavender mafia do with the truth-speaking preachers of the world?


13 posted on 12/19/2013 3:53:08 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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>> today’s acceptable norms.

Acceptable?? To whom?

I don't set my standards of acceptable conduct by the whims of effete urban socialists. Indeed, their conduct is generally UNacceptable in my part of WEST Virginia. Today's Acceptable Norms here include that faggotry is repulsive and sinful.

14 posted on 12/19/2013 3:55:35 AM PST by NorthMountain
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I don’t think it’s two Americas as much as it’s two spirits.

Very rapidly, the spirit of anti-Christ is taking over what once was a unified, God-fearing, Judeo-Christian nation.


15 posted on 12/19/2013 3:55:52 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I do hope the rest of the family will support Phil in this matter, acknowledge the truthfulness of his words, & have A&E drop the whole show.

The big loser will be A&E. Phil & his family don’t need the money.


16 posted on 12/19/2013 3:56:01 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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so....a Christian talks about his faith and what is acceptable and what isn’t - and he’s suspended...but any nut case anti-US - pro-death of babies is given any amount of air time to spouse their opinions and beliefs....uhm...

Seems like the shows popularity illustrates where the majority of viewers concentrate their belief system - and it’s not around the gay movement or abortion rights... A&E is in it for the money and could care less about promoting Christian values...same as TLC and their pedophile show Toddlers and Tiaras...


17 posted on 12/19/2013 4:00:21 AM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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I loved the authors comment about Phil being “rhetorically unequipped”. Made me laugh. Phil knew exactly what he was saying. He doesn’t CARE about political correctness.


18 posted on 12/19/2013 4:00:50 AM PST by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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“I don’t think it’s two Americas as much as it’s two spirits.”

Anyone who has watched daytime TV will quickly realize there are two Americas; normal people have nothing in common with people that are fed this stuff all week while we work our butts off. There is 0 common ground.


19 posted on 12/19/2013 4:05:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: rhema

emails done...


20 posted on 12/19/2013 4:06:50 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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