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Sarah Palin Defends 'Duck Dynasty' Star: 'Free Speech Is an Endangered Species'
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | December 18, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 12/18/2013 11:20:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Donnafrflorida
The corporate number is 212-210-1400, give them a call and tell them how you feel!

the CEO number is 212-210-9007

Both numbers are staying busy!! Hope their lines are melting.

61 posted on 12/19/2013 6:14:52 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Ransomed; xjcsa
I suspect you both are being genuine devil's advocates.
Here is Sarah's comment:
Free speech is an endangered species. Those “intolerants” hatin’ and taking on the Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us.

SPECIFICALLY, what in that comment do you disagree with?

62 posted on 12/19/2013 6:24:36 AM PST by bramps (Mark Levin: Would Christie, McConnell, and Boehner repeal obamacare? Not a chance!)
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To: mazda77
By the end of the week, we will know all the details. Then we can make learned assumptions instead of just assumptions.

How is the following, which is my post in it's entirety, making an "assumption", whether "learned" or otherwise?

Unless their contract with A&E says otherwise.

63 posted on 12/19/2013 6:29:23 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: bramps

The part where she tweeted about freedom of speech being endangered after A&E put the duck dude on hiatus for his interview. I guess I thought she wanted folks to make a connection between the two, or am I missing something? I could definitely see ‘hate speech laws against gays’ coming to the US and making freedom of speech endangered.

Freegards


64 posted on 12/19/2013 6:37:57 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: xjcsa
I love Sarah Palin, but she’s wrong this time, as are many others. There is no free speech problem here.

She didn't say the 1st Amendment was endangered, she said free speech was endangered, and she's right.

We, and she, are smart enough to know that the 1st Amendment applies to congress.

65 posted on 12/19/2013 6:46:34 AM PST by Washi
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To: gattaca

Sarah is awesome. Phil did have every right to express his opinion and quite frankly A&E have every right to show Phil the door. Everyone is happy with their free speech. Life is good! Duck Dynasty is go on. Season 5 around the corner.


66 posted on 12/19/2013 6:49:38 AM PST by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: xjcsa

...”Also, obviously TV viewers have the right to watch or not watch A&E as they see fit”...

...Or buy products from the sponsors of A & E...


67 posted on 12/19/2013 6:57:59 AM PST by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Washi

I have a lot of things to say, but A&E won’t give me a show or even pay me a decent reality-show-level salary. Whatever happened to free speech?


68 posted on 12/19/2013 7:26:55 AM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: KC_Lion

Thanks


69 posted on 12/19/2013 7:30:00 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Washi

Sarah also said nothing about Phil being suspended by A&E or mentioned the employer A&E specifically but about the ‘hate’ going on for expressing his opinion


70 posted on 12/19/2013 8:12:50 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: KC_Lion

God bless and protect Sarah!


71 posted on 12/19/2013 8:32:40 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Graybeard58

Well has not A&E fired him...so if your fired you can go were you please. ..and considers he own the company the show follows...you cant have it both was...else you contracted to be a slave..
Really Phil and family and his business has no right to run hours long “commercials” on another channel


72 posted on 12/19/2013 8:47:49 AM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: MrB

Oh no, the “couple” walked past 200 bakeries so that they could force a Christian to bake a wedding cake for them. This is their game plan.


73 posted on 12/19/2013 9:21:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: xjcsa

Guess you’re not PC enough.

Jeez, this PC crap is definately the death of common sense.


74 posted on 12/19/2013 10:30:16 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (Wishing all a very Merry Christmas)
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To: saywhatagain; xjcsa
However, the contradiction is no “public” “non religious” entity would be allowed to fire an individual for expressing pro homosexual activities.

California has laws protecting cross dressers, Transgender and the sexually confused. The selective outrage is obvious, consider Bashir's vile comments and MSNBC's slow motion reaction.

One might wonder what percentage of the Dynasty's audience falls into the GLADD demographic? How do the wield such power when I doubt anyone from that demographic watches that show.

75 posted on 12/19/2013 11:09:23 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Moonman62; xjcsa

I think Sarah Palin is making the case for opinion and free speech in the general sense, not the constitutional sense. The Left wants to destroy people for having the wrong opinion

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Exactly. The point is we conservatives disagree with liberals — liberals, on the other hand, will do ANYthing to shut down opposing voices.

While that is not a constitutional issue, it damned well IS censorship.


76 posted on 12/19/2013 1:52:49 PM PST by Peet (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Nextrush
It would be nice if the LGBT activists were really concerned about “hate” and “intolerance” but they are not.

They are like the racist hustlers that only care about white racism.

If one can't condemn all racism, hate and intolerance, one has no credibility.

77 posted on 12/20/2013 2:00:27 PM PST by Kazan
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