Posted on 12/18/2013 11:20:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Phil Robertson came under fire after making anti-gay comments, causing the former Alaska Governor to tweet those "taking on" the reality star are taking "on us all."
Sarah Palin has come to the defense of embattled Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson. After A&E placed Robertson on indefinite hiatus for making anti-gay remarks, Palin tweeted her support of the reality star.
"Free speech is endangered species; those 'intolerants' hatin' & taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion take on us all," she tweeted.
On her Facebook page, Palin posted a picture of herself with members of the Duck Dynasty family....
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Both numbers are staying busy!! Hope their lines are melting.
SPECIFICALLY, what in that comment do you disagree with?
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.
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
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.
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.
...”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...
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?
Thanks
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
God bless and protect Sarah!
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
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.
Guess you’re not PC enough.
Jeez, this PC crap is definately the death of common sense.
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.
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.
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.
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