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Gary

Social climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

Dec 19, 2013 - 02:50pm PT

Some moron on the TV has moronic ideas? Yawn.

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Dec 19, 2013 - 02:52pm PT

We aren't surprised...are we?

WyoRockMan

climber

Flank of the Big Horns

Dec 19, 2013 - 02:58pm PT

Is Sarah Palin going to support Martin Brashir's right to "free speech"?

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Dec 19, 2013 - 03:32pm PT

On the advice of a couple of friends, who apparently entertain more easily that Heidi & me, we tried watching an episode.

I couldn't believe the characters, and I've spent plenty of time around redneck culture. Heidi bolted after about 5 minutes, but I lasted most of the episode, wanting to believe that something that matched my low-life sense of humor might appear.

Never again. Do people like that actually exist?

Branscomb

Trad climber

Lander, WY

Dec 19, 2013 - 03:37pm PT

White trash comes into a lot of money, then they start thinking they know something. Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, etc etc etc. The American dream, baby! A virtual Horatio Alger in camo!

crankster

Trad climber

South Lake Tahoe, CA

Dec 19, 2013 - 03:55pm PT

It is not an act.

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Dec 19, 2013 - 03:57pm PT

Moose, please link and quote the "racist" things which you think that Duck said.

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Dec 19, 2013 - 03:59pm PT

Moose, please link and quote the "racist" things which you think that Duck said

It's plastered all over the news media. Just go to CNN's home page.

tornado

climber

lawrence kansas

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:01pm PT

He is a right wing,born again christian. What did you expect? He has a right to free speech ,his beliefs, and opinion So now you know where he stands. If you do not like it don't watch the program, buy Duck Commander products, or Ducky Dynasty merch.

crankster

Trad climber

South Lake Tahoe, CA

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:15pm PT

Amen, eKat.

Norton

Social climber

the Wastelands

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:23pm PT

I think the point here is that one needs to understand that the senior Mr. Robertson is basing
his opinions on ONLY his personal experiences.

For examples, because he is a heterosexual and very probably has never spent any time reading or even trying to understand homosexuality, he therefore makes conclusions with very limited information.

Same with "blacks", because he personally ONLY witnessed "happy" black people working in the fields he concludes that well, they are just fine, and their lives were ok and happy and all this
"welfare" like food stamps and stuff just really did no good and did not makes their lives better.

And that really is the issue, isn't it?

Mr Robertson, like so many other people, comes to sweeping conclusions effortlessly and easily,
because it is easier to do that then spend the time and effort actually learning and questioning.

And by choosing to have a lazy intellect, he is going to hear other people exercise their right of free speech by calling him uninformed, misinformed, and just plain ignorant.

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:23pm PT

Thanks, I hadn't seen that quote before, only the one about his Christian beliefs as it relates to gays and bestiality.

This is the quote being discussed in case the article gets moved or disappears: (On growing up in pre-civil-rights-era Louisiana)

..."said that during his Louisiana childhood, he picked cotton with African-Americans before “entitlements” and “welfare” came along, and never saw “the mistreatment of any black person. Not once.”

“Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers,” he told the magazine. “I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. 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.”"

GDavis

Social climber

SOL CAL

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:25pm PT

Ron Anderson, defender of bigotry and ignorance!

The dude compared homosexuality to adultery, rape and bestiality. I'm sure he's laughing as he's suspended.

I'm all for it - I think he shouldn't be suspended. If you are ignorant, please - be ignorant. As publicly as possible. I hope he draws a line deep in the sand so that people who share those ignorant beliefs are seen as the disillusioned children they are.

The world needs Phil. Like a bug zapper for idiots.

JEleazarian

Trad climber

Fresno CA

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:38pm PT

It's no more offensive than your typical night on MSNBC or The Daily Show.

But it's offensive to different people. Those worked up over MSNBC could care less about what Robertson believes and vice versa.

The truth remains, it's entertainment, and lots of entertainers have lots of beliefs that are out of the mainstream. And I admit, I consider those beliefs in selecting by whom I choose to be entertained.

He can say what he wants in the U.S., and his potential viewers can select whether or not to view him based on what he says. To that extent, at least, it remains a free country.

John

anita514

Gym climber

Great White North

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:39pm PT

why is it only stoopid white trash get shows?
why can't normal people get a show? like some small business owner, or some regular person with a regular job?
why is it only the freaks and goofs get shows?!?!?

tornado

climber

lawrence kansas

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:42pm PT

^^^I like the Wild Alaska show on Discovery. Those people seem pretty cool.

edit: I meant the The Last Frontier Alaska

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Dec 19, 2013 - 04:46pm PT

So when he says, "Phuque a duck" it is actually code for gay sex?

I think that the show is all a set up, but at the same the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Many rednecks really are that stupid.

This guy should have been gagged long ago.