'Duck Dynasty' Star Also Under Fire for African-American Statements

[DanF]

This is the kind of thread where guys like me are better off just to bite their tongue.

I grew up in the Fifties and I learned that I may be one of the few remaining dinosaurs from a time that is gone and mostly forgotten.

Most people today in the USA don't need or really want to hear from people from those times.

And.....I like this place. I'm better off now just sticking to Swedish Snus.

( but I'm about to take a trip back to My Fifties and enjoy a big long lost love from my old past days: Cigars.)

Dan

[Andy105]

Phil's comments were actually pretty tame, coming from an old, redneck, Christian from Louisiana. He wasn't the Pope, for Chrissake. I think he's showed a lot of class for speaking his mind without resorting to bad words. Anyone who's shocked and surprised at those statements coming from him, should be kicked in the nuts for being stupid. We used to respect freedom of speech, dammit! But then, I'm gettin kinda old and crusty, too....now where's my Red Man?..

[Premium Parrots]

This whole situation makes me sad. And theres just so many dam reasons why. Suspending Phil is so wrong.

[wa3zrm]

Glenn Beck Makes a Very Exciting Offer to the Cast of ‘Duck Dynasty’

“Duck Dynasty on TheBlaze” has a nice ring to it, according to Glenn Beck.
One day after Phil Robertson’s comments about homosexuality earned him an indefinite suspension from the hit series “Duck Dynasty” on A&E, Beck offered the entire Robertson family a place on his own network.
“[All the other networks] will fold to pressure,” he said. “They will all fold to sponsors. They will all fold to money because they are all in over their eyeballs are debt … the only reason why Phil was put on hiatus and not the rest is because it is a money-printing machine.”
Beck said as he sees it, the Robertson family has a choice to make.
“If I am in the Robertson family, I sit down with my family and say, ‘Is this the way we’re going to [let] him be treated? Is this who we are? Are we going to [be] quiet because he has an opinion about the scriptures?’”

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[wa3zrm]

Obama says family on Duck Dynasty seems like ‘pretty fun bunch’
The Hill ^

December 19, 2013, 12:03 pm Obama says family on Duck Dynasty seems like ‘pretty fun bunch’
By Justin Sink
President Obama said the “Duck Dynasty” family seemed like a “pretty fun bunch” in a People magazine interview conducted before Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the reality show family, was suspended from the popular television show over anti-gay comments.
In the People interview, the president was asked who he'd rather spend the day with — the “Duck Dynasty” family or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Obama has previously criticized West's antics, but offered praise for both reality show families in the People interview.
“The Duck Dynasty family seems like a pretty fun bunch, so I can see how that would be pretty fun. Kanye's music is outstanding, though. I've got a lot of his stuff on my iPad. If it was a concert, then I might not mind listening to him,” Obama said.
The comment was made before an interview with GQ's Drew Magary was published Wednesday, in which Robertson called homosexuality sinful and illogical.
“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,” he said.
Gay rights organizations have criticized the comments, and A&E, which airs the "Duck Dynasty" show, suspended Robertson.
Robertson’s comment comes shortly after the president was applauded by LGBT groups for announcing that the presidential delegation to the Sochi Olympics would include two openly gay female athletes — seen as a protest of a Russia's recently implemented anti-LGBT laws.
“In the selection of this delegation, we are sending the message that the United States is a diverse place,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
Carney added that the president has “made no bones about the fact that we strongly oppose and are offended by the anti-LGBT legislation.”
Some Republican lawmakers have protested Robertson's suspension by A&E.
“It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a statement to The Weekly Standard.
Obama has previously criticized Kanye West, who Obama once famously called a “jackass.”
In a recent interview, the president said he was troubled by a shifting culture where kids were paying attention to what Kardashian was wearing.

[wa3zrm]

Phil Robertson's anti-gay comments aren't the only part of his interview with GQ causing controversy.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at tv.yahoo.com ...