Duck Dynasty guy's vile, yet unsurprising views on gays and civil rights

[Liberal_in_LA]

Duck Dynasty guy's vile, yet unsurprising views on gays and civil rights

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Duck-Dynasty-guy-s-vile-yet-unsurprising-views-5075149.php

"Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson told GQ, unsurprisingly, that he doesn't get the whole gay thing.

"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men," Robertson told GQ's Drew Magary in the magazine's Janurary issue.

He then went on to describe, in detail, why he, a self-proclaimed vagina-loving man, doesn't understand the attaction.

So there's that. Oh, and also, he explained why blacks were happy during the Jim Crow days in Louisiana.

"Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash," Robertson said. "They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people'—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues."

After getting called on the carpet for these gems, Robertson released an

[LordGlenconner]

1. Ill be glad when these dumb shitheels

Are relegated to obscurity again. Sick of the schtick. Sick of people talking about it. Sick of hearing them talk period.

[XemaSab]

2. Back in my day

Negroes was happy pickin' cotton for dey w'ite folks!



(Now let's see a show of hands: who is actually surprised that southern rednecks turn out to be southern rednecks?)

[arcane1]

3. Yes. homosexualiy leads to men sleeping with lots of women. Makes perfect sense.

And if black farm workers didn't complain to their white bosses, that means they were happy!

[Aerows]

37. It's as perfect sense

as lesbians will want to sleep with men so that they can have kids and go back to their lesbian spouse. I was unaware that I had an abiding need to become impregnated by men and so forth.

[JI7]

4. glad i never watched that crap and never became a fan of them, i could even understand honey boo boo

being popular because she is a little kid . but never got these guys.

and honey boo boo supports gay rights.

[closeupready]

5. Celebutante nonsense - no end to it in our tabloid media, is there?

[Mopar151]

6. Maybe Phil is making the standard "class or race" argument

LBJ used to say "Where I grew up, we was all one color - broke!"

[Tom Ripley]

7. A dumbass redneck with money is still a dumbass redneck

[Logical]

8. I cannot believe people watch this show. nt

[grasswire]

9. my white, suburban, northern, educated retired librarian sister...

.....has fallen in love with the show. She's a teabagger, too.

I sneered at her.

Now that I hear about the homophobia and racialism, I know why she likes the show.

[Decaffeinated]

10. As someone who does watch the show...

I would say that they have never addressed the issue.

[Kingofalldems]

39. Well now you know.

I guess as a Democrat you will stop watching.

[Decaffeinated]

42. If they start bringing it up on the show I probably will...

Not very likely I think though...

[Logical]

13. Great point! Nt

[Gothmog]

12. I do not understand the appeal of this show

I have tried to watch it and end up changing the channel. I do not understand the appeal of this show

[SomethingFishy]

15. Me neither... But I don't understand 90% of TV...

From the Karaoke shows, Idol, Voice, X Factor, to the Housewives who are apparently now "celebrities", to these "Swamp" reality shows, to the DNA test results shows my wife watches incessantly (Maury, Steve Wilkos etc..) TV is a wasteland of really stupid shit.

Were it not for HBO Showtime and AMC I probably wouldn't watch TV at all.

I did like this clueless bit about "the blacks": "They're singing and they're happy".

[Logical]

16. One of the greatest scenes ever! Funny!! nt

[BlueJazz]

17. "Person of Interest" is worth watching.

[SomethingFishy]

19. Cool, I'll check it out...

Always looking for something good I just started Breaking Bad, had never got a chance to watch it so I am hitting it up on Netflix.. Will check out POI when I finish BB..

[Glitterati]

22. Oh yeah! This is the only show I actually set my schedule by

I love Person of Interest.

[JI7]

25. what is that about ?

[BlueJazz]

30. Fairly involved. A super-smart intelligence geek (older dude) plus an ex-cia man and woman.

The geek has a "machine" that knows where and when everything is going to happen.

..and they set out to "Right" any wrongs.
A LOT more than that but you get the idea..


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/

[okaawhatever]

38. Sarah Shahi the female cia character is the great-great-grandaughter of Fath Ali Shah former

ruler of Iran from the Qajar Dynasty.

[BlueJazz]

45. I knew that. No I didn't

That IS rather cool.

[deutsey]

48. I've never seen it and, after this, I intend to keep it that way. n/t

[quinnox]

11. Never heard of him

Sounds like a good thing at that.

I do know who the Kardashians are though. Ah, Reality TV culture...

[JI7]

14. fucking idiots, why the fuck would black people complain to those who they depend on for money

and knowing they are already viewed as less than equal.

[BlueJazz]

18. Oh Yes...It's always smart to cause your captors to get super-pissed off with you.

Sarcasm..of course.

Blacks were slaves but not stupid.

[WinkyDink]

20. "I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash," ?!?! "they were happy"---YasSUH, BOSS!

[KatyMan]

23. which sounds like he meant

he was white trash (still connotating superiority), but they was jest trash....

[WinkyDink]

46. Exactly!

[Marrah_G]

21. Their facebook fans are just as bigoted.

[Capt. Obvious]

24. Go read the comments section of the GQ article

Christian fans out in force!

[shenmue]

26. Wow

And I thought he was so easy-going and friendly.

[nomorenomore08]

27. Smile in your face, talk shit behind your back. Everybody does it, but Southerners

seem to have perfected it.

[Botany]

28. Don't forget that Obama is responsible for crime in Chicago too.

Robertson also shares an interesting rationale for voting for Mitt Romney over President Obama, saying he favored the candidate because he was from Salt Lake City, a safer city than Chicago. "Where would I rather be turned around at 3 o'clock in the morning?" he said. As Magary points out, Romney, though a Mormon, hails from Boston.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-gays-sin-black-people-civil-rights-20131218,0,4998406.story#ixzz2nqxn9jne

BTW for the little I have seen of the show it is so fake it is not funny ..... "Oh my I dropped my wedding ring
into the swamp .... what will i say to my wife?"

[LittleBlue]

29. I don't get this Duck Dynasty thing

I saw someone wearing a DD shirt and saw a poster for sale.

From my understanding, these guys live out in the woods and make duck calls. What am I missing that's so amazing about a family of duck hunters? That doesn't seem very interesting imo

[SoCalMusicLover]

31. Because You Are On Upper End Of Intelligence Spectrum

Unfortunately, the majority of Americans are on the lower end of the scale.

Remember, stupid folk are citizens too, and the majority of them have nothing better to do than watch shows on tv which were designed to reach, at most, their low level of intellect.

[jmowreader]

41. They make a LOT of duck calls

Phil Robertson was the starting quarterback for the Louisiana State University Tigers for two seasons but gave up his shot at NFL riches - he was recruited by the Washington Redskins, when the Redskins were still good - because football conflicted with hunting. How good was he? When Robertson was still on the team, Terry Bradshaw (the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls) was second on the depth chart.

In 2012, these guys' company had $40 million in revenues. Plenty of it comes from licensing, but they make a shitload of money selling duck calls.

People watch this show for the same reason they watched the Beverly Hillbillies: to city folk, country folk are hysterically funny.

[panader0]

32. "no one was singing the blues'??

Where, exactly, did those blues come from?

[jmowreader]

35. If you had to pick cotton next to Phil Robertson, you'd have the blues too.

[okaawhatever]

40. IKR, that was my first thought. Apparently he's not familiar with the origin of blues music. rofl nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

33. This is a publicity stunt

Call the Duck Dynasty crew what you want. Two things are true: they know their audience, and they aren't idiots. The remarks they made promote the show in the minds of people who make up their key demographics. Those who are offended represent demographics that don't watch the show anyway. There will be a counterfeit apology; howls of outrage; calls for a boycott; graphics on Facebook circulating about God-hating liberals demanding that A & E cancel the show, and how you should "like and share" if you love Jesus and are happy, happy, happy about what Duck Dynasty represents.

Meanwhile they sell more DD emblazoned stuff at Wal Mart.

[OmahaBlueDog]

47. I called it yesterday, and I'm already seeing this circulating this morning

I'll say it again: this is a publicity stunt. He knew exactly what the reaction would be when he said those things to GQ, and he knew it would fire up his fan base.

[jmowreader]

34. I've noticed one common thread among those who've gone off the deep end

Santorum did this and so did Phil Robertson: non-Jesus-approved sexual pairings invariably lead to bestiality. This naturally makes me wonder how they know so much about going Horsley, when they stopped and if they ever did.

[joeybee12]

36. "unsurprising" is the understatement of the week...knr

[Zorra]

43. This ignorant, phony christian, gay hating racist bigot has his very own idiot TV show, about his

family.

And it's super popular with republicans/conservatives.

birds of a feather, as the saying goes.

[Kingofalldems]

44. Those guys screamed freeper republican the first moment I saw them.

Probably the #1 favorite show of the conservative cave dwellers.