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RandySF

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14. It's making its way up the online food chain as well.
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 11:37 PM
Dec 2013

From Slate:

Culture warriors on the right spent the bulk of the holiday season establishing Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty as a martyr because the millionaire was suspended from his television show after making grossly homophobic and racist statements to a GQ reporter. The strategy worked, and A&E reinstalled Robertson to his apparently First Amendment–guaranteed spot on reality TV, which in turn sent liberal bloggers back to YouTube to find more incidents of Robertson saying terrible things about the nonwhite, nonmale, nonstraight portions of the population.

The hunt didn't take long. This weekend bloggers turned up a video from 2009 in which Robertson advises marrying underage girls because they are easier to dominate than those who've graduated high school.

In the video, a Sportsmen's Ministry talk, Robertson laments that good women are hard to find, saying, "Mainly because these boys are waiting until they get to be about 20 years old before they marry 'em. Look, you wait until they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket."

His advice for a happy marriage is to make like R. Kelly and hang out in high-school parking lots. "You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. They'll pick your ducks." (No, "pick your ducks" is not sexual innuendo—Robertson is talking about cleaning the feathers off of dead birds, a miserable task often left to women to perform.) "You need to check with mom and dad about that of course," sage Robertson wisely advises, but he does not explain how to convince the parents of teenage girls to let them marry grown men who are tired of cleaning their own dead birds.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/12/30/phil_robertson_on_marriage_duck_dynasty_star_advised_men_to_find_15_year.html

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Already? I read it here only 4-5 days ago. Scuba Dec 2013 #1
from an msm source or a progressive blog? arely staircase Dec 2013 #2
Likely the latter, though I don't recall. Scuba Dec 2013 #5
this is the first msm story I have seen nt arely staircase Dec 2013 #6
Why do we even care what this guy says? Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #3
you don't have to arely staircase Dec 2013 #4
The right will use it favorite fall back, the liberal media is out to get Robertson and is digging bluestate10 Dec 2013 #8
YOu're absolutely right to point it out, arely.. and to let us Cha Dec 2013 #10
Because there are 15 year old girls in the world, some of them are our daughters, and Coyotl Dec 2013 #9
exactly arely staircase Dec 2013 #13
Miss Kay's early marriage to Phil Robertson made her so miserable that she contemplated suicide. Tanuki Dec 2013 #7
knr nt XRubicon Dec 2013 #11
He said the same thing to his grandson on one of the TV episodes... Tx4obama Dec 2013 #12
he is saying girls make better wives because they arely staircase Dec 2013 #19
Not being blown out of proportion at all MattBaggins Dec 2013 #26
he says by the age of twenty.. alato Dec 2013 #31
Seriously? ljm2002 Dec 2013 #36
Wille Robertson said he married his bride when she was 17... theHandpuppet Dec 2013 #39
They met when they were in third grade. They married 1 year after graduating high school Tx4obama Dec 2013 #46
Indeed MO_Moderate Dec 2013 #45
It's making its way up the online food chain as well. RandySF Dec 2013 #14
girls are always property in low-life societies/repressive-religious societies SoCalDem Dec 2013 #16
I don't mind when the unacceptable is shown to be what it is. delrem Dec 2013 #25
k&r... spanone Dec 2013 #15
OK, teenage girls can be flaky . . . Brigid Dec 2013 #17
His advice was for BOYS not scraggly old men. This issue is being taken out of context. n/t Tx4obama Dec 2013 #20
context is clear arely staircase Dec 2013 #21
That is bull. My aunt got married when she was 14 almost 15, she dominated my uncle her whole life Tx4obama Dec 2013 #22
and that was when? arely staircase Dec 2013 #24
all of my grandparents were married young alato Dec 2013 #33
My great grandparents were in the 1800's. Married as adults. In the 1800's. Bluenorthwest Dec 2013 #41
Because they are more easily manipulated he thinks MattBaggins Dec 2013 #27
I am not a 'dude'. And I support young folks that wish to marry. The law... Tx4obama Dec 2013 #29
how old were you when you wanted to get married and how did it ruin your life ? JI7 Dec 2013 #32
Exacty! That's just plain nonsense! n/t marew Dec 2013 #38
BOYS? DeSwiss Dec 2013 #28
On Mediaite now pokerfan Dec 2013 #18
Matthew 15:11 HoosierCowboy Dec 2013 #23
Just had to look it up madville Dec 2013 #30
A female 13 years old in New Hampshire can marry with parental consent Tx4obama Dec 2013 #34
13 for girls and 14 for boys XRubicon Dec 2013 #40
Yeah, you've gotta catch them before they have a mind of their own or anything (/sarcasm) Rhythm Dec 2013 #35
Wow! marew Dec 2013 #37
exactly arely staircase Dec 2013 #42
fox news arely staircase Dec 2013 #43
christian science monitor arely staircase Dec 2013 #44
Excerpt from your link Tx4obama Dec 2013 #47
so he is joking about the duck plucking but not the taking of childbrides arely staircase Dec 2013 #48
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