Posted on 03/31/2017 4:41:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Duck Dynasty was a modern-day version of Mayberry - a television show that celebrated faith and family and ducks. And now the show has ended - the duck blind is closed.
It was back in 2012 that A&E introduced the nation to the owners of Duck Commander – the Robertson Family, of West Monroe, Louisiana.
t was only a matter of time before Phil and Miss Kay and Uncle Si and Willie became some of the most popular stars in reality television show history. Among all of us gun-toting, Bible-clinging, Deplorables – the Robertson’s were beloved.
Each week they welcomed us into their homes and business for heaping helpings of fried frog legs, jugs of sweet tea and a healthy dose of homespun humor.
The Robertson’s never shied away from their devout Christian beliefs – and I deeply respected that decision.
One of the most poignant moments in each episode happened around the dinner table as the family held hands and prayed.
That beautiful moment of Christian fellowship was once considered controversial by A&E staffers, according to Phil.
“So they would just have me saying, ‘Thank you Lord for the food, thank you for loving us, amen,” he told Sports Spectrum in 2013. “So I said, ‘Why would you cut out ‘In Jesus’ name?’ They said, ‘Well those editors are probably doing that. They just think that they don’t want to offend some of the Muslims or something.’”
It’s no surprise that liberals, Hollywood and the Mainstream Media detested the gun-toting, Bible-clinging, duck callers.
Rolling Stone published a profane farewell to the television show titled, “Fowl Play: Saying Goodbye to ‘Duck Dynasty,’ TV’s Worst Show.”
“No show in television history has ever sucked quite like this one,” they wrote. “And if the TV gods are willing, no show ever will.”
Apparently the editors at Rolling Stone haven’t watched “Vanderpump Rules” or anything featuring the “Kardashians.”
The take-down was particularly brutal – calling the Robertson’s a “family of hypocritical Christian-right hillbillies.”
“The show represented the pre-Trump Christian right’s fantasy of itself – a family of hairy but God-fearing bootstrappers bowing their heads in prayer over the dinner table,” the writer added.
It sounds to me like somebody's skinny jeans are a bit too tight.
The mean-spirited magazine went on to accuse our favorite duck hunters of being phonies: “Hell, even their beards looked fake.”
Those are fighting words, right there. Just because you're a latte-sipping liberal doesn't mean you have to be downright rude.
In truth, the Robertson’s are good people, Christian people who spoke truth to a very intolerant culture.
I had the pleasure and honor of getting to meet Phil and Miss Kay and Al and Willie on a number of occasions. And they were just as genuine in person as they were on the television show.
Just a few weeks ago I spoke at Liberty University and had the chance to visit with Luke Robertson, the young and beardless member of the family. It only took a few minutes to understand this young man was raised by godly parents.
I reckon that's why we loved “Duck Dynasty” – they made television family-friendly again. That’s a fact, Jack (as Uncle Si might say).
So I believe it is only fitting to end this column the way the Robertson’s ended their television program – with a prayer.
Rolling Stoned isn’t a newspaper anymore. It became a tabloid publication in the 1980s and now is a dinky sized glossy magazine.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Duck Commander company was worth more than Rolling Stone and those hillbillies who built it are worth more than anyone who works there including Jan Wenner.
One of the few shows we watched routinely as a family.
Has Rolling Stone reported any more fake rapes lately? LOL. It’s an expensive venture.
And opposed progressive rock bands going into the Rock &Roll Hall of Fame, because of course they resent people who have competence, in this case to play their instruments.
This country was built by rednecks and hillbillies!””
And every war that protected our freedom was fought and won by rednecks and hillbillies. We should never forget that. Another war is here now. Evil versus Good.
Dang, before I took a second look, I thought that that was the late “artist” known as Prince.
So what Rolling Stone? You are massively out gunned and can do nothing but stew in your seething hate.
The irony with liberals is that they wouldn’t even root for themselves in movies. This feigned outrage over a right-wing, Christian family on TV is just that.
Think of the plots or lead roles in pretty much every film, ever filmed.
Comedies:
Down-on-his-luck middle class, usually white, under-paid, over-taxed, traditional family man living in suburbia.
Drama:
Overly sexy white guy, mid 30’s. Usually sweet and charming and seeking life in suburbia with sweet, charming, sexy white female with wholesome values...OR
Sweet, sexy, charming white woman wanting a life without promiscuity and seeking a man to take care of her.
Action/Thriller:
Handsome, decorated solider or agent fighting terrorism. Plays with guns. Lots of scary guns. Guns everywhere. Loves his country...a lot. Risks life and family to fight evil.
Lead protagonist always is fighting government intervention. Ever notice no film is based on a protagonist pimping pro-government slogans?
Yet...here we are. A real life sweet, charming family with traditional values and they are quite literally the left’s personal Satan.
Those people would absolutely throw us in prison and kill us for our beliefs.
and having a “blown tranny” in your garage doesnt mean what it use to either....../s
I saw something similar years ago in a humour paperback called the Manly Handbook. It had a drawing of a frontiersman fighting a bear with a knife. It was captioned “This Country was built by Men not Psychotherapists!”
Much better than being leftist perverts like Rolling Stone.
The only time I ever hear of Rolling Stone is when there’s bad news about them. I wouldn’t even know they still exist, if it weren’t for the bad news.
I wonder, where do they get their funding?
Rolling Stone wouldn’t know a hillbilly from a gator
Precisely
I never watched the show. Long ago however I learned while watching The Beverly Hillbillies that I would have preferred the “unsophisticated” Clampetts to say the Drysdales.
Yeah, “heartthrobs” like this guy:
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