http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/12/19/3089521/duck-dynasty-controversy-perfect-media-scandal-2013/
Yesterday, Phil Robertson, the star of A&E’s massively popular reality show Duck Dynasty, about a family that made a fortune selling duck calls to hunters, followed what’s now become a familiar cycle. He was quoted saying any number of intolerant things in a profile by Drew Magary in GQ, condemned by GLAAD, and swiftly suspended by his network for an indefinite period of time.
TheDuck Dynasty story has gone wider than this type of cycle normally extends, with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, normally a supporter of free enterprise, complaining that Robertson’s suspension is an example of how far our society has fallen from First Amendment principles.But variations aside, the Robertson kerfuffle is the perfect scandal with which to end our year in popular culture for what it tells about the lines reality television tries — and increasingly fails — to walk, who has power to marginalize political ideas in popular culture, and how conservatives will try to defend the holdouts they’ve carved out for themselves in mass media.
this 1st amendment needs it's own 1st amendment, it is obvious that free speech is not a good freedom all the time, especially on the republican side where they promote guns and their use regardless to how many dead Americans are in it's wake.
these fringe groups who show up strapped at political events, taunting citizens and most law enforcement for no other reasons then to push the amendment to it's limit and have the ability to kill whoever they want with a pass SYG and because they re-interpret it to apply to early America and it's gun fights,.
The most revealing thing about Robertson’s remarks about homosexuality in GQ is really the extent to which his comments about homosexuality are on-brand for A&E. Jase Robertson told Magary that the three things his family wanted their show to be about were “faith, betrayal of family members, and duck season.”As is clear in the profile in GQ, A&E has tried to walk a fine line between portraying the Robertsons as religious Christians without spotlighting the parts of their beliefs that have the potential to cause precisely the kind of firestorm that resulted yesterday. “There are more things Phil would like to say—’controversial’ things, as he puts it to me—that don’t make the cut,” Magary writes.This dilemma of wanting part of a reality television cast member’s personality, but only the parts that will make you money, is one that faced CBS’s Big Brother this year, too, after discovering that the ways in which a number of their controversial and colorful cast members were controversial and colorful was that they were enormously ignorant racists.
i just have one thing here, right wingers like Scarbourough said there were millions who agreed with them but if that is true an even truer point if they were a majority then when this racist bigoted rhetoric surfaces that the networks side with their sponsors which intimates there are more millions who don't subscribe to that vitriolic hatred as the networks prove.
