Posted on 12/22/2013 9:28:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Something amazing is happening in America. An awakening. More people showed support for Phil Robertson (the star of “Duck Dynasty”) in 24 hours than signed up for Obamacare in its first few months. Which means at this point in time, Americans are starting to come to the conclusion we’d be better off with a duck hunter in the White House than Obama. Heck, we couldn’t possibly do any worse.
Hollywood really stepped in it this time (must have been duck poop). The result is ironically, Christians are coming out of the closet! In other words, the tables have turned. Middle America is waking up from the shock, disarray, intimidation and distractions of the Obama years. We're not scared of the PC police anymore. We are free to express ourselves, and we don't really give a "duck" what Hollywood, or Obama, or the thought police thinks about our opinions. Which must scare Hollywood to death.
A duck hunter has inspired us. Emboldened us. And what middle America is saying out loud is, “We have rights too. We deserve free speech too. We’ve had enough of your oppression and intolerance towards our values and beliefs-and we’re NOT going to take it anymore.”
A&E claims the “indefinite suspension” (ie firing) of Phil Robertson is about “branding.” What they are insinuating is they couldn’t possibly allow a close-minded, Neanderthal gay basher to remain as the face of their billion dollar brand.
Well guess what? The new brand for A&E is "the Christian-hating, Bible-bashing, intolerant TV network." Funny enough, they would have been better off with the gay bashing brand. Because the new brand is dead on arrival…or in other words, "This duck won't hunt."
This isn’t a gay rights issue. I have never cared what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. The firing of Phil Robertson, star of “Duck Dynasty” is a free speech issue. It’s symbolic of the biased, one-sided way the media and leftist elites treat free speech. People have every right to express opinions considered “progressive” or “politically correct” nowadays. But the same rules don’t apply to salt-of-the-earth, apple-pie, middle Americans who believe in God, country, guns, and yes, the Bible.
You mean Christians and conservatives don’t they have the right to free speech just like Hollywood leftists? You mean Christians or conservatives don’t have the right to express their views in the workplace, without fearing for their jobs?
Phil Robertson only expressed his personal opinions. Those opinions are shared by millions of Christians not only in America, but across the globe. Agree or disagree, he had every right to express that opinion, without losing his job.
I may disagree with the exact words he chose, but I stand hand-in-hand with Phil to support his right to say it.
Oh by the way, Phil is a reality TV star. His success and popularity is based on his opinions. A&E fired a reality star for having controversial opinions? Are you kidding me? A&E executives need to quickly visit the nearest psychiatrist.
The Duck Dynasty scandal is about intolerance. But the intolerance is on part of Hollywood and A&E. The star of a reality show is allowed to have opinions. If you don't like them, you have no right to ban them. That's intolerance. That’s tyrant’s behavior. That’s McCarthyism. That’s the attitude of police states we find in countries run by tyrants like Stalin, or Fidel Castro, or Huge Chavez, or the old East Germany. Is this what America has become under Obama?
I don't have to agree with Phil Robertson to stand behind him. I support free speech. If it can happen to Phil, it can happen to anyone of us. I'm a TV and radio personality. I have opinions. I won’t change them, or back down. If you don't like them, change the channel. That's called FREEDOM.
But Hollywood wants Christians in the closet…silent…fearful…intimidated. Obama, Hollywood and the leftists are petrified of free thought. They keep their modern day Tammany Hall going through intimidation. They cannot afford to allow conservative or Christian values to be affirmed by a pop culture celebrity- for fear it might start a trend. It might stir up the masses. It might encourage conservatives to speak out. It might embolden Christians to quote the Bible without fear. Hollywood cannot allow that. Because they know it could get out of hand. Americans might actually be inspired to fight back. Someone might escape the thought-police plantation.
A duck hunter may have just lit the spark that started a revolution. Phil Robertson just went from TV phenomenon to American hero. Christians have been unchained. We are free to speak our minds. And we're not going back in the closet.
I think Hollywood just "ducked themselves."
Yes! We are thinking along the same lines, no doubt. Even today conservative people in and around Hollywood when off the record admit that there is a bias against anything and anyone that is or who is not Communist / Socialist / "Progressive" / Marxist in their beliefs!
Wayne: Two things to add to your fine column.
1. Don’t leave us Jews out of this fight. It is a fight for American culture, our way of life, our rights to our religious beliefs, and free speech. I’m in for the duration.
2. Please don’t say that were are “behind” Robertson. That’s GLAAD’s position. We stand BESIDE brother Robertson.
"course"? Really? Where exactly do you get that quote about "course"? If you are going to quote someone, and literally specify it as a "quote", please do not substitute your own wording in place of the alleged quote.
Too many times in the past have two different alleged quotes been attributed to too twosomes of twos and flummoxed thereby.
Oh, and "looser" is not the same as "loser", before you begin.
Just FYI, for U2C, ASAP, FWIW. (IANAL, BTW).
The Robertsons know who the real “QUACK” is in America, and he lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Wash. D.C.
Obamacare - Dead Duck
Kathleen Sebelius - Super Quack
Ezekial Emanuel - Uber Quack
Michelle Obama’s menu for children - “milk and Quackers”
The way Obama thinks, “QUACKED” in the head!
Hey, noob, we’re all full up already on grammar police.
Right you are—the obligatory bow to “civility.”
Pretty rich. Comes right back down to the old GOP line: “I liked what McCarthy was trying to do, but I despised his methods.” Now we’ve got to listen to Rove saying that Robertson was within his rights to say what he believed but, oh, the crassness and crudity were beyond the pale.
Well, McCarthy was hunting commies, not ducks; and Robertson was merely describing what the Bible condemned.
Maybe the GOP (I have no hope at all for the dems and their acolytes) ought to consider the crassness and crudity of communism and the gay agenda instead of hip-shooting the canaries in the coal mine.
I have been saying the very same thing for years. For far too long now, 'tolerance' has broken down for most normal people as "you accept whatever I do, in the name of 'tolerance', and I will stop shouting 'Intolerant Redneck' as a compromise!"
No disrespect to all Godfearing much-appreciated true Rednecks out there.
And that "tolerance" has now turned into "Mandatory Acceptance".
Or, in far too many cases; "Compromise".
As in "I think you should be proud to eat this cow patty and accept it as normal, and you do not. So we will compromise, and you will only eat half of the cow patty. That's bloody fair, innit?"
Yes.. I have no time for anybody who doesn’t appreciate McCarthy’s work.
AND his methods.
What is with zis "we", Froggie? Do you not look at the source at all, you with the strange mouse in le poket? Oui, if you did, you would know that the only "we" we have here is not yet learning of how to wean itself off of ze patois.
Clymer.
But when California's election laws required all donations above $100 to be made public, and people found out she was one of those that gave a pittance in support of Prop 8, well then they protested the restaurant and tried to have her fired.
These cases are truly borderline cases. Technically as an employee of the restaurant she is an ambassador for that restaurant just like NFL players are ambassadors for the NFL. But if the restaurant can deem her a bad ambassador for publicly donating money to Prop 8, then I suppose they can fire her.
How ironic if it turns out that the Constitution allows corporations to spend as much money as they want to bribe whatever congressmen they can, while their employees, the true citizens of the US, are discouraged from spending their money or time to publicly support people and causes they like for fear of losing their jobs with these same corporations.
To A&E network, the MSM, Hollywood, leftists,and assorted homosexual perverts: Duck you.
The problem for the liberals is that homosexuality is an issue that can’t be resolved. And they seem to believe that everything can be.
There seems to be a desperation, not just an anger behind their mentality. A lot of them, especially the radicals, must have been the ones who were picked on or ostracized in school. They still want everyone to like them. Unfortunately for them, the most society can do is leave them alone.
Right now we’re all angry at the world. But I sense liberals are angry at truth.
Excerpt of official statement by the Robertson family:
"While some of Phil’s unfiltered comments to the reporter were coarse, his beliefs are grounded in the teachings of the Bible."
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/20/4704423/the-robertson-family-official.html#storylink=cpy
“How ironic if it turns out that the Constitution allows corporations to spend as much money as they want to bribe whatever congressmen they can, while their employees, the true citizens of the US, are discouraged from spending their money or time to publicly support people and causes they like for fear of losing their jobs with these same corporations.”
well first, I guess one thing is I just wished we could put to bed the notion this is a free speech issue. its not, and I think it hurts conservatives more than liberals to allow that to be misconstrued. liberals abuse it.
once that is in place, we move on to being fired for cause. as a country maybe we need to address that. if it ever got to the point, using the nfl again, that it was well accepted that when a player makes a statement its only his point of view and not the nfls, that would be progress in not having “the freedom of speech” to be controlled by corporations.
Add to that that I also write for a living in whatever spare time I have, and the editors and spellcheck people are much more brutal in their summation of any and all mistakes.
Hmmm. Part of that should read: "...to two twosomes of toos (also's, for you hating-of-correctness persons -yes you, mon enfant on Le Politic du Grame')..."
Oui, I am most able to self-edit when I am not in ze typing of too fast at times...
For what? Screw Washington.
Demand al-a-carte cable offerings. Screw bundled cable.
Kill your cable/satellite and switch to a streaming service. I pay only $19/month for Netflix, HuluPlus, and I have an annual Amazon Prime subscription.
But despite the “grammar” aside, I do indeed side with you on the McCarthy opinions. Good on ya, Struth!
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Excuse me, but are you on drugs or something? I have no idea why you suddenly decided to pick a fight with me over a word that you thought I quoted in error.
I've just presented you with documented evidence that I quoted the Robertson family correctly, and you're still ranting away like you've overdosed on bath salts.
Seriously. Get a grip. I know I spelled the word 'coarse' incorrectly the first time.
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