“”Phil Robertson lives in a huge gated compound on the edge of town “”
THEN why is his home on the TV show shown as an average ranch style home with outdoor sheds/barns? Is that what they build for gated communities in Louisiana? Granted the boys have pretty terrific looking mansions but Phil?
Don’t tell me we’re going to find out that the portrayal of the family is totally bogus. I started watching the show when I first saw the elder Robertson living like the rest of us in spite of his multimillionaire status.
Because he has a huge gated compound doesn’t mean he has a huge multi-million dollar home. They may very well live in the ranch house with the sheds, but it’s a large gated property (I read 20,000 acres) and it’s fenced.
The headline is misleading in my opinion but then again, it’s just a guess on my part.
I understand your point about crudeness.
I'm not a fan of Duck Dynasty for reasons similar to yours, as well as others. Also, while I've got no problem with hunting, it's not my thing. There's nothing wrong with the premise of the show, I'm just not their intended audience.
But that's not the point. The Duck Dynasty family is not being attacked because of crudeness, or because they are, using their own words, “white trash.”
They are being attacked because the head of the family cited Scripture and took a biblical stand against homosexuality.
If Robertson were a hard-drinking, hard-living, and hard-talking Marine or coal miner or truck driver or whatever other stereotype you want to cite of a secular conservative who made no claims to godliness but who got in trouble because of criticizing homosexuality, he would still be worthy of support. And that would be true even if his language were laced with much worse stuff than anything Robertson says.
The leftists are apparently willing to destroy a major cash cow for the A&E Network because open criticism of homosexuality cannot, in their view, be allowed on network television. As a private company, the A&E Network has every right under the First Amendment to decide whether or not to broadcast Duck Dynasty, and we have every right to act accordingly, i.e., telling A&E Network what we think of their decisions.
That — a zero-tolerance policy for criticism of homosexuality — is the issue, not whether or not the Duck Dynasty patriarch has a pottymouth.
Also, as GeorgiaDawg32 pointed out, the reporter's idea of a “huge gated compound” may have something to do with the fact that he writes for the British newspaper, the Daily Mail. I'm not sure how many “gated compounds” exist in Monroe, Louisiana, but I'd be inclined to think he's referring to something we would consider to be a ranch with a big fence and a gate. In choosing his words, the reporter may have used words which have a different nuance of meaning on his side of the Atlantic than ours.