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This is so true.....
A&E goes duck hunting, shoots self in foot | Fox News
Talk about defecating in Sarah Palinâs mouth? You are allowed to resign a few weeks later. Be known as an actor with a violent temper and anger issues who even called his daughter a âpig,â you get rewarded with your own MSNBC show. But run afoul of the LGBT police at GLAAD and you are pulled from one of the most successful shows on cable TV.
Thatâs not reality television, thatâs the reality of television, where traditional values are hated even when they bring in big ratings. And liberal attacks are tolerated until even liberals canât stomach the result.
âDuck Dynastyâ star Phil Robertson was quoted in GQ describing how homosexuality is, newsflash, a sin. (He also discussed many other sins, but they donât all have activist defense organizations â yet.) Yes, he did so in his typical folksy way which some might call inartful, but what he said was straight from the book. THE book â the Bible.
And the network execs couldnât stand it, bowing instantly to the gay agenda as practiced by GLAAD. Free markets have nothing to do with TV. Itâs all now about not offending some victim group.
And itâs not about free speech either. TV networks want nothing to do with that archaic concept. They only support free speech they agree with and that most diehard lefties approve.
The conflict was inevitable. Television used to love people from what the media call flyover country. TV scored with hits such as âThe Beverly Hillbillies,â âGreen Acres,â âHee-Haw,â and âMayberry RFD.â Those were celebrations where Americans were reminded of their roots. And when country met city, it was always country that won out with homespun wisdom triumphing over big-city egos and fancy degrees.
But âDuck Dynastyâ comes from another era where TV doesnât celebrate ordinary people, it mocks them. This is the time of âHoney Boo Boo,â and âBuckwild,â the âJersey Shoreâ style shows about rural people. These programs were designed so coastal liberals could watch and mock and feel better about themselves while reading their New York Times. Thatâs likely what A&E bosses thought they had with âDuck Dynasty.â
Boy, were they wrong.
A&E created a show that tried to make fun of rustic rubes and discovered it had inadvertently created the opposite. Instead of Hollywood values triumphing as we watched the starsâ backward ways, traditional values won out every time. They werenât Obamaâs bitter clingers. They cared for each other and kept their faith close. Each episode even ended in a family prayer. Before network execs could try to figure out what John 3:16 meant, they had created a program where faith, family and freedom ruled.
And it became wildly popular.
The bearded stars soon were everywhere, with promotions seemingly in every store. That success didnât matter. The network still wanted to rein in its stars. Back in April, Phil Robertson said the network had even wanted to delete mentions of âJesusâ from the family prayer, trying to bleep the Savior like He was a four-letter word.
A&E didnât want its high-profile stars mentioning Jesus. And it sure didnât want them saying anything else out of the Bible. When Phil did, GLAAD cried foul and that was it.
Thatâs GLAADâs typical strategy. Itâs a hardcore lefty organization that wants to ban opponents to gay marriage from the airwaves â even the news shows. It even helped get liberal Alec Baldwin kicked off MSNBC. It runs its Commentator Accountability Project that tries to brand traditional marriage supporters as âextremeâ and not worthy of TV time. Its list of commentators reads like a Whoâs Who of the conservative movement. Yet to GLAAD, they âdo not accurately represent the âother sideâ ofâ gay issues.
To the left there is no other side. Thereâs only their side. All other views must be silenced.
A&E goes duck hunting, shoots self in foot | Fox News
Talk about defecating in Sarah Palinâs mouth? You are allowed to resign a few weeks later. Be known as an actor with a violent temper and anger issues who even called his daughter a âpig,â you get rewarded with your own MSNBC show. But run afoul of the LGBT police at GLAAD and you are pulled from one of the most successful shows on cable TV.
Thatâs not reality television, thatâs the reality of television, where traditional values are hated even when they bring in big ratings. And liberal attacks are tolerated until even liberals canât stomach the result.
âDuck Dynastyâ star Phil Robertson was quoted in GQ describing how homosexuality is, newsflash, a sin. (He also discussed many other sins, but they donât all have activist defense organizations â yet.) Yes, he did so in his typical folksy way which some might call inartful, but what he said was straight from the book. THE book â the Bible.
And the network execs couldnât stand it, bowing instantly to the gay agenda as practiced by GLAAD. Free markets have nothing to do with TV. Itâs all now about not offending some victim group.
And itâs not about free speech either. TV networks want nothing to do with that archaic concept. They only support free speech they agree with and that most diehard lefties approve.
The conflict was inevitable. Television used to love people from what the media call flyover country. TV scored with hits such as âThe Beverly Hillbillies,â âGreen Acres,â âHee-Haw,â and âMayberry RFD.â Those were celebrations where Americans were reminded of their roots. And when country met city, it was always country that won out with homespun wisdom triumphing over big-city egos and fancy degrees.
But âDuck Dynastyâ comes from another era where TV doesnât celebrate ordinary people, it mocks them. This is the time of âHoney Boo Boo,â and âBuckwild,â the âJersey Shoreâ style shows about rural people. These programs were designed so coastal liberals could watch and mock and feel better about themselves while reading their New York Times. Thatâs likely what A&E bosses thought they had with âDuck Dynasty.â
Boy, were they wrong.
A&E created a show that tried to make fun of rustic rubes and discovered it had inadvertently created the opposite. Instead of Hollywood values triumphing as we watched the starsâ backward ways, traditional values won out every time. They werenât Obamaâs bitter clingers. They cared for each other and kept their faith close. Each episode even ended in a family prayer. Before network execs could try to figure out what John 3:16 meant, they had created a program where faith, family and freedom ruled.
And it became wildly popular.
The bearded stars soon were everywhere, with promotions seemingly in every store. That success didnât matter. The network still wanted to rein in its stars. Back in April, Phil Robertson said the network had even wanted to delete mentions of âJesusâ from the family prayer, trying to bleep the Savior like He was a four-letter word.
A&E didnât want its high-profile stars mentioning Jesus. And it sure didnât want them saying anything else out of the Bible. When Phil did, GLAAD cried foul and that was it.
Thatâs GLAADâs typical strategy. Itâs a hardcore lefty organization that wants to ban opponents to gay marriage from the airwaves â even the news shows. It even helped get liberal Alec Baldwin kicked off MSNBC. It runs its Commentator Accountability Project that tries to brand traditional marriage supporters as âextremeâ and not worthy of TV time. Its list of commentators reads like a Whoâs Who of the conservative movement. Yet to GLAAD, they âdo not accurately represent the âother sideâ ofâ gay issues.
To the left there is no other side. Thereâs only their side. All other views must be silenced.