Ducking A&E

In another shot across the bow of the culture wars GQ magazine sent a reporter to....well report on the Duck Dynasty clan.
And it seems he got just what he was looking for. If you read the preamble to the article the first thing that jumps out at you is that the interviewer isn't exactly a neutral observer.

How in the world did a family of squirrel-eating, Bible-thumping, catchphrase-spouting duck hunters become the biggest TV stars in America? And what will they do now that they have 14 million fervent disciples? Our Drew Magary toured the Louisiana backwater with Phil Robertson and the Duck Dynasty gang to find out

As you read the rest of the article you see that the guy can barely contain his disdain for what he perceives as backwater rednecks (of course not having it occur to him that they are very happy and successful backwater rednecks).

Eventually he asks the question that produces the mother lode: What, in your mind, is sinful?

What I find interesting about this is why would a bunch of effete leftists give a tinkers damn about a show about a family that made it's fortune by doing what they love and live for faith and family?
Of course you can't dismiss the disdain that they feel about the family's insistence about not hiding their faith so they realized that a few choice quotes can take them down a notch or 2.
The author of this hit piece probably tinkled himself a little bit when he got the money quotes.
Simply put, in my opinion, this was a trap. A chance to possibly purge an embarrassing show about people who believe in God,guns and country.
The "gay" rights groups were notified who then fell in line to condemn Phil's opinion and then pressure A&E to do something about it. So they suspended him from the show.
Then the crap storm happened.
A facebook page set up almost 24 hours ago to support Phil Robertson currently has 947 K likes and growing, it should go over a million sometime this evening.
As much as everyone wants to make this about 1st amendment free speech rights A&E is a private company and has the freedom to determine what is and is not acceptable. But seeing as how the Robertson family is wealthy anyway they don't really need A&E, however Duck Dynasty is A&E highest rated show....ever.

What this is about is the free market, if the rest of the DD clan stands behind Phil and decides to walk away the question becomes can A&E give up the ratings and money that DD brings to the network.

You have to wonder if the suits at A&E are so stupid as to pander to what is really a small minority demographically that, until GQ wrote their hit piece, couldn't have cared less about Duck Dynasty.

The Robertson Family Official Statement

OK for Me But Not for Thee

I gotta tell you, sometimes I'm appalled by the disdain the commie liberal media has for common Americans. The unhinged left has been screeching non-stop for draconian gun control in this country since the Newtown, CT. shooting. I mean like from the very second it happened, before we even knew who or how many the cries for more gun control started.

From celebutards to brain dead democrat politicians who jump on any band wagon the media starts pulling hoping to get donations into their reelection war chest.

Some of the most shameless has come from the lick spittle liberal media.
On NBC's meet the press David Gregory went after NRA's Wayne LaPierre about armed guards placed in schools to protect the students.
All so he could high five with his effete, elitist commie buddies and brag about how he "showed LaPierre" what's what.

He also demonstrated how the law doesn't mean squat to liberals or the media.

 David Gregory Violates DC Gun Law On National TV



He gets to wave around what anyone else would be arrested for, somehow I don't think he'll end up being held accountable for doing so.
Then there's this other interesting little tidbit.

Gregory Mocks LaPierre for Proposing Armed Guards, but Sends Kids to High-Security School

But when it comes to Gregory's own kids, however, they are secured every school day by armed guards.
The Gregory children go to school with the children of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. That school is the co-ed Quaker school Sidwell Friends.
According to a scan of the school's online faculty-staff directory, Sidwell has a security department made up of at least 11 people. Many of those are police officers, who are presumably armed.
Moreover, with the Obama kids in attendance, there is a secret service presence at the institution, as well.

Unbelievable, this guy berates someone who advocates that all children should have the same security that his children enjoy, along with taking away rights under the law that he feels he can ignore.
The gun grab advocates don't care one wit about anyone else's children but their own, ya know because David Gregory's and all the other elitist snobs children are way more important than those of the unwashed masses.

How are these clowns even relevant to this debate?