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.
The writer is just jealous of the people who managed to get their image licensed onto something that is sold in about every walmart, target, kohls, convenience stores, sporting goods stores, on and on and on.
The “hillbillies” are some of the most brilliant marketing geniuses ever.
*Ain’t no hills in southern Louisiana Cher*
I see plenty of people here have pointed it out. Only a Marxist would call someone who is from an area no higher than 50 feet above sea-level a “hillbilly”.
Miserable stupid pathetic morons.
Rolling Stone Magazine is a propaganda piece for the anti-American, anti-Christian, junk culture destroying our society.
How can they be Hillbillies since they live in the Louisiana swamps and probably have webbed toes?
A hillbilly is born with one leg shorter than the other so they can walk around the hills and still stand straight. One direction only.
I was born on the High Plains.
In Europe, “right-wing” is a generic insult.
In this country, “hilbilly” is a generic insult with no connection to geography.
My family is 8 generations West, by Gawd, Virginia
Mountaineers are always Free
I wear that label proud, I do
Some of the most intolerant and non-diverse people I have ever met, were liberals. Their modus operandi is hate. They apply hate labels to everyone, as in, racist, sexist, islamaphobe, homophobe, xenophobe (I don't even know what this last one refers to but they use it all the time to disparage others).
Everything in the world seems to offend them. Almost every word in the English dictionary is considered by them to be a "dog whistle" of some kind, masking the real intent of the speaker or writer. They are very thin-skinned and their "micro-aggressions" are endless. Fragile, self-loathing, miserable people.
That's why I don't know any liberals anymore. Over the last twenty years, I have weaned my self off of them completely. I stay as far away from them as possible.
Life is much more pleasant and enjoyable without them.
*In this country, “hilbilly” is a generic insult with no connection to geography.*
Thanks for clearing that up for us ;>)
See posts 6 and 26. I posted to you only because you started the thread.
If you ever want to be schooled on the left and how depraved they are, watch one episode of Vanderpum Rules. It’s the worst of the worst. If your children watch this show you should be concerned.
Vanderpump Rules and the left = the men act like women and the women act like men.
LoL Yep, no hills.
#42 Forbes estimates in 2013 that the Robertson family’s merchandise is around $400 million from deals in that past year alone. How much more since I do not know.
Jann Wenner who started Rolling Stone in 1967 is worth $700 million. The magazine in 2014 has a circulation of 1,468,263
Wiki on him or it:
Born Jann Simon Wenner
January 7, 1946 (age 71)
New York City, New York, United States
Spouse(s) Jane Schindelheim (1967–1995)
Partner(s) Matt Nye (1995–present)
Conasses are Acadians (cajuns) and are primarily located in SW Louisiana. West Monroe is split by I20, not far from Mississippi River and is in NE Louisiana. They are more properly rednecksalthough they don't work outdoors in the sun.
I went to high school with people like them and my wife worked part time in the La Tech athletic office when Phil and Terry Bradshaw were there.
What ever happened to them being sued over fake rape stories?
Rolling Stone, convicted of fake news reporting.
I sense you’ve drifted from your birthplace.
They aren’t hillbillies, they’re 100% Louisiana coonass.
like that's a bad thing...
It ain’t stoners...it’s something else....this ain’t 1968
It’s either
Gay activist...my first guess......
Libtard urban anti Christian Jewish bigot from millenial to early boomtard
Jann Wenner the chicken hawk fits both bills there...the publisher
Or it’s a minority thing of some sort
Or it’s a stoned hipster least likely today
Im banking on first two scenarios
Rolling Stone did have a couple decent writers over the years
Of course mad man Hunter....entertaining and self deprecating unlike today’s earnest lefties
Craig Vetter......
Jon Kronauer....
Both great adventure writers
PJ O Rourke.....
Chet Flippo is a country writer of good standing which is all the more incredible considering he started in the Haight
I knew him in grocery store howdy level. RIP
Ralph Gleason could at least wrote well about music.....
Cameron Crowe and Joe Esterzhaus ditto
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