winging it wrote:
814,000!!! hhahahaahaha we are driving the fudgepackers back into their caves!
Some context, then: if a network TV show got 814,000 viewers, it'd be cancelled. Pitbull, a rapper universally acknowledged to be terrible, has 40,000,000 likes.
Do I have this straight?
One of the minority guys on a loosely scripted TV show (designed to poke fun at his select minority) pokes fun at another group. The folks who produce the show don't like their character bashing minorities outside the scripted one and they stop him from doing it on their show. Now the folks who watch the show that bashes his minority won't watch the show until the character on the show gets allowed to bash his choice of minorities.
Yes?
The main thing I find irritating with this whole thing is the folks labeling it a "Free Speech" issue.
The guy on ducks can say whatever the hell he wants. A & E can decide they don't like what he said, that what he said is as poor reflection on them and suspend him or whatever the hell they did assuming that it is covered in the contract he has with A &E.
It IS NOT a free speech issue.
Say whatever you want. Don't whine like little bitches when what you say has consequences.
Democrats can't handle the truth.
"The 67-year-old "Duck Dynasty" star was suspended by A&E Wednesday for calling homosexuality sinful — and putting gay people in same category as terrorists. While those quotes quickly went viral, it wasn't his only brow-raising statement in the interview; he also implied that African Americans were happier living under Jim Crow laws."
Next up: Someone asks chess player if rooks should move diagonally. Rooks' rights are denied as chess player says no.
I work for a Fortune 50 corporation if any employee at my company said anything remotely similar as this individual that person would be fired shortly thereafter. I am sure A&E has similar policies thus the suspension. If you work for a company with similar policies and you do not agree with them you should quit. Stand by your intolerant beliefs and put your money where your mouth is.
I am liberal on most issues.
If this is supposed to be a reality show and this is what he really thinks, they should show it or else it's fake.
Suspending him for being real doesn't make sense.
Showing what he says is a bit of a service to broadening our views.
I am totally against the boycott and it makes me more interested in hearing this man talk.
Walker Red wrote:
I work for a Fortune 50 corporation if any employee at my company said anything remotely similar as this individual that person would be fired shortly thereafter. I am sure A&E has similar policies thus the suspension. If you work for a company with similar policies and you do not agree with them you should quit. Stand by your intolerant beliefs and put your money where your mouth is.
Liberals are funny. They claim to be "tolerant" and "inclusive", yet they are only tolerant and inclusive IF you agree with them. Do you think people who support abortion - murdering an unborn child - should be fired? I don't agree with the pro-abortion crowd, but don't expect them to lose their job over their stance.
I am a gay liberal male.
I haven't watched the show as I can do without watching rural hicks in action.
That said, I'm not surprised by hearing what the guy said, and would be totally fine with him staying on the air continuing to spout that ignorant crap. I mean it is a show about redneck hunters....
And to the person calling out the guy from the fortune 50 company. Big companies have zero tolerance on any of that kind of crap.
You can't bash folks for their religion, not having a religion, sexual orientation, sex, race etc.
In some ways they are the most tolerant, in that they dont' allow any intolerance towards anyone.
I guess he had more to say... wrote:
"The 67-year-old "Duck Dynasty" star was suspended by A&E Wednesday for calling homosexuality sinful — and putting gay people in same category as terrorists. While those quotes quickly went viral, it wasn't his only brow-raising statement in the interview; he also implied that African Americans were happier living under Jim Crow laws."
http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-duck-dynasty--star-phil-robertson-digs-his-hole-a-little-deeper-by-also-stinging-african-americans-173821415.html
The quote does not say they were happier under Jim Crow laws. I would say it is a stretch to get that from his statement. He says he was right there working with African-Americans who were happy and not complaining about the white man. His statement clearly shows a lack of understanding about the day to day life of an African-American in that time period, but it does not imply they were happier, happy does not equal happier.
I like the one comment:
More people have supported Phil Robertson in the past 18 hours then have signed up for Obamacare. REAL AMERICANS #STANDWITHPHIL
There is no homosexual agenda.As a gay man, I don't have a problem with him speaking his beliefs. My problem with what he said is that it shows he is completely ignorant about gays. He compares woman's vaginas to men's anus'. Saying a woman's vajayjay has more to offer. He acts like gay men are attracted to women, but choose to be with men anyway. He implies by his comments that being gay is about sex only. He fails to realize that gay men can't fall in love with women like they can men. He also implies that all gay men are interested in anal sex, and that is far from the truth. Phil Robertson, like his buddy Pat Robertson, are pathetic, ignorant fools who pray to a magician in the sky. What else would you expect him to say.
take back america wrote:
1 million likes!
hahahahahahaha!!!!
the homo agenda is being defeated!!!!!
Stop whining like a bitch when A&E supports gays.
take back america wrote:
AND STOP WHINING LIKE A BITCH WHEN PEOPLE BOYCOTT A&E FOR THEIR HATE AGAINST HIS BELIEFS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! GOES BOTH WAYS FUDGEPACKER!!
not a free speech issue wrote:The main thing I find irritating with this whole thing is the folks labeling it a "Free Speech" issue.
The guy on ducks can say whatever the hell he wants. A & E can decide they don't like what he said, that what he said is as poor reflection on them and suspend him or whatever the hell they did assuming that it is covered in the contract he has with A &E.
It IS NOT a free speech issue.
Say whatever you want. Don't whine like little bitches when what you say has consequences.
doperjoe wrote:
the power of Dumbfukistan is not to be underestimated.
this is how 30% of the US thinks/feels, which in and of itself is disturbing. But this is what the inbred slackjaw morons want, so I say give it to them.
Why are you so intolerant of conservatives? I find your views offensive, and I would like an apology.
too funny wrote:
Walker Red wrote:I work for a Fortune 50 corporation if any employee at my company said anything remotely similar as this individual that person would be fired shortly thereafter. I am sure A&E has similar policies thus the suspension. If you work for a company with similar policies and you do not agree with them you should quit. Stand by your intolerant beliefs and put your money where your mouth is.
Liberals are funny. They claim to be "tolerant" and "inclusive", yet they are only tolerant and inclusive IF you agree with them. Do you think people who support abortion - murdering an unborn child - should be fired? I don't agree with the pro-abortion crowd, but don't expect them to lose their job over their stance.
No, of course not! If you worked at an abortion clinic and supported the doctors performing the abortions I could not think of a more inclusive gesture. Thanks, I get that a lot. I must be funny.
If Robertson compared homosexuality to bestiality, then he also compared sleeping around and adultery. But I don't really think compare is the right word here. He called out all kinds of behavior that the Bible lists as sinful.
And I wish GLAAD could explain what lies he told? He offered his opinion based on his religious beliefs.
A&E knew this family had conservative beliefs and wore their religion on their sleeves before they aired this TV show. A&E has sent a strong message that discrimination is neither a Christian nor an American value. So now GLAAD and A&E executives are the arbiters of Christianity and American values? It took MSNBC about a week to suspend Alec Baldwin for what were clearly hateful comments. Of course, GLAAD had no problem with Baldwin, because he's a liberal.
It is good to speak one's own mind and to share a valid observation. Too bad the political Leftist do not tolerate anyone's view but their own.
I am Mexican and watch the show. I think all this crying about words are stupid. Everyone was mistreated at some point grow up and move on. If you don't like his remarks don't watch the show. Obama and his cry baby nation.
PC Police out of control wrote:
If Robertson compared homosexuality to bestiality, then he also compared sleeping around and adultery. But I don't really think compare is the right word here. He called out all kinds of behavior that the Bible lists as sinful.
And I wish GLAAD could explain what lies he told? He offered his opinion based on his religious beliefs.
A&E knew this family had conservative beliefs and wore their religion on their sleeves before they aired this TV show. A&E has sent a strong message that discrimination is neither a Christian nor an American value. So now GLAAD and A&E executives are the arbiters of Christianity and American values? It took MSNBC about a week to suspend Alec Baldwin for what were clearly hateful comments. Of course, GLAAD had no problem with Baldwin, because he's a liberal.
It is good to speak one's own mind and to share a valid observation. Too bad the political Leftist do not tolerate anyone's view but their own.
+1000
I don't think this has anything to do with what he wore, on his sleeve or elsewhere. I don't care what his religion is .... He deserves to lose his job over those remarks he made, as did Martin Bashir, or Alec Baldwin, and dozens of other folks. Where were you conservatives calling for Martin Bashir to NOT lose his job?
This has nothing to do with free speech. Robertson is still a free man.