Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

Suspending him was a financial decision by the network because they didn't want pressure put on advertisers who then might pull their ads from the show and thus cost the network money.

But that pressure goes both ways as was demonstrated when Christian groups decided that they didn't like the show GCB (otherwise known as Good Christian B**ches) and put immense pressure on advertisers to pull their ads from the show. Instead of just not watching something they didn't like they decided that nobody else should be allowed to watch it either. But now that the shoe is on the other foot it is somehow an attack on free speech? Hypocrisy at its best.

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

I've never watched the show as I dislike all so called 'reality TV' but they are not tramps. They have had a family business for years which makes and distributes various hunting products (duck calls, etc.) and they were multimillionaires before they ever appeared on the show.

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

Thank you for that. When I opened the thread I was wondering "rugby? ice hockey? golliwog?"

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

Awesome TV show - political correctness gone mad! I don't share the same opinion as him but it doesn't bother me that they are his views.

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

Scalia Calls “Duck Dynasty” Decision Unconstitutional


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...tcid=obnetwork

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

It's a slippery slope don't you know

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

Except that he is not being stopped from expressing his views. He is free to express them and A&E are free to fire him. But even after being fired he can still express those views.

And this little clip shows just what those views are:

http://www.heavy.com/entertainment/2...eo-homophobia/

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

I think the NYer article was tongue-in-cheek.

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

I didn't read it...having an issue with links at the moment (downloaded an ad-on for my browser and things have been weird since I did).

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

So much this :goodpost:

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You mean the part at the bottom where it says 'Get all the fake news delivered to your inbox by The Borowitz Report':D

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:rofl:

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

But surely this is the problem with this type of tripe? It's a N. American version of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding...terrible lowest denominator rubbish, but fine viewed from the back of a cushion....then some sad group of souls start to identify with 'em, and they are suddenly 'heros' and we have to live with their ghastly homespun ramblings.

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

I take it that you have never watched it. The comments being discussed were not stated during the show.

Re: Phil Robertson suspended
 

No, I did know the views wern't on the show, because I saw all the furore about it in the news and then looked it up. However, had the man not been on the show, nobody would have asked him for his views or been in the slightest bit interested.