Conservatives Should Be Thanking A&E For Suspending “Duck Dynasty”

[JaneyVee]

With a plodding inevitability, the ignorant screams of “free speech” are coming from the usual suspects in the wake of Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty getting suspended for his homophobic remarks in GQ. (He was also mind-bogglingly racist, but for some reason, that hasn’t been as sticky a story, maybe because his racist comments were a little more complex than his homophobic ones.) Sarah Palin, who is quickly making “dumbass” seem like an inadequate descriptor, said this:

"Free speech is an endangered species, Palin, 49, wrote. “Those ‘intolerants’ hatin’ and taking on the Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us."

Look, I get why the usual suspects are whining and moaning that conservative assholes are entitled to have a TV show on A&E to preserve their “free speech”, without bothering to explain when the rest of us get our A&E shows because we also have free speech rights. Feeding off the claim that conservatives are “oppressed” any time they aren’t elevated as superior to the rest of America is their bread and butter. But man, it’s particularly stupid right now. They should be kissing A&E’s feet and screaming bloody murder at Robertson, because A&E was doing not just the Robertsons but all of conservative America a giant favor, and he, out of his petulant inability to know what he sounds like when he opens his yap, couldn’t be held back from fucking it all up.

Duck Dynasty was a major P.R. coup for conservative America because it was free of comments like the ones Robertson let loose in GQ. The show was carefully scripted and edited to make the Robertsons seem like they aren’t bad people, just a little kooky and “old-fashioned”.* It made conservative America look cuddly and warm and fun-loving, instead of what Drew Magary of GQ actually exposed it to be, which is miserable, resentful, and hateful. While I think most conservatives and most liberals understood implicitly that there was a whole side of this family that wasn’t on camera—was anyone really surprised by the GQ interview?—by carefully hiding it, A&E allowed conservative America to play up their own mythology about being decent people, deep down inside.

Now their cover is blown...

The rest: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/19/conservatives-should-be-thanking-ae-for-suspending-duck-dynasty/

[Ranchemp.]

1. Duck Dynasty has not been suspended,

only Phil Robertson has been suspended, filming for the next season will go on.
I don't think Phil really gives a damn about being suspended, I saw an interview where he said he was going to leave and go back to hunting and fishing.

[Lint Head]

2. Phil Robertson has the right of free speech on his own time and his own dime. But, not on the

time and dime of someone else. This is suppose to be a feel good show. (I do not watch it or any other reality shows.)
This show raises his profile and would basically give him a platform to spew his bigotry and hatred. Maybe not directly on the show but
as a personality.

If he wants to spew hatred, he should appear on the Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, Alex Jones, Trinity Broadcasting Network cluster flucks.

[PM Martin]

3. It's the "liberal" media again.

[bigdarryl]

4. Palin is such a hypocrite

She didn't say anything about free speech when the MSNBC host resigned two weeks ago because of going after her

[FarPoint]

5. Lets shut them down!

They indeed carefully scripted their racism and bigotry. Glad their arrogance took over and the truth be exposed.

[old guy]

6. Palin is just auditioning for a job on the show.

She sees herself as a perfect addition, which she would be as she wouldn't have to act.