It looks like Phil Robertson’s suspension from “Duck Dynasty” may be just for show. Entertainment Weekly learned that on Jan. 15, A&E will begin airing new episodes of the show that include scenes featuring the “Dynasty” patriarch.
“The network also hopes the media and fan furor will cool down over the holidays and that tensions over shooting future episodes can then be resolved,” Entertainment Weekly reports. “There’s no negotiation to have; we’re doing the show,” an inside source told them.
After A&E’s suspension, Robertson’s friends and family came out in support of him. Sources told E! News that the family was “very serious” about leaving the reality show after Robertson was placed on hiatus. “[Phil] is the reason for their success—they’re not going to abandon him. They’re also not about to let anyone threaten their religious beliefs,” the source told E!. The family released a statement on the Duck Commander website saying, “We are disappointed that Phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith.”
I've known guys who were somewhat like Phil or Si and hunted with them. A few were friends of my dad and there was never a dull hunting trip because one way or another the persons antics lead into some misadventure. Ever see four guys try to catch a half grown coon and get it aout of a log? Ever see a guy on back country hiking/fishing trip try to take on a black bear with a Derringer? Those were trips I was invovled in. Just one of many where always on the trip things somehow got turned to some side adventure.
As for the Robertsons what you don't see going on behind the scene speaks best of their character. In one episode Mountain Man is in a canoe on a conveyor belt I think. That scence had a lot more going on. Jase and Phil were bewtween the shots talking to Mountain Man as they had when Mountian would drop in on the Duck Call Room off season. The guys in the Duck Call room when not filming {off season} talk about GOD. Their conversations lead to the real salvation of Mountain Man. Go on Youtube and search Duck Dynasty +Mountain Man's Testimony.
Some of their antics are created. It's like So said in his book. My stories are 95% true. You figure out what part is and isn't LOL. BTW Si is married 40 years grown kids and a son with Aspaughers who is career Army himself.
The guy isn’t a dummy by all accounts. He has worked with the garbage A&E network for years. He had to know this was going to happen, I mean come on.
Not that the Duck Dynasty story isn’t important, it provides a rallying point. But while the cable reality show story is happening, two more actual states of the union have been black-robed into accepting ‘gay marriage’ within a matter of hours of each other, one of them had an actual amendment that a federal judge overturned. If the decision stands that’s 17 states that have or soon will accept ‘gay marriage.’
But look at the ratio of coverage between the two stories. No way does this happen 10 years ago. I don’t think it’s a good sign, in my opinion. A cable reality show star getting fired for thinking homosexuality is a sin vs. two whole states accepting ‘gay marriage.’
FReegards