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Cancel All Reality-TV Shows : They’re boring, unfunny, and across-the-board lame.
National Review Online ^ | 12/21/2013 | Betsy Woodruff

Posted on 12/21/2013 7:26:47 AM PST by steelhead_trout

Enter Duck Dynasty, a magically lucrative institution that simultaneously 1) is a reality show and 2) features conservative Christians. It was a money-printing machine for A&E until — who could have predicted? — one of its redneck stars did something one may have expected a redneck to do and our nation faced its greatest peril since, say, the Cold War. Has Western civilization ever confronted such an existential imperilment as the suspension of man-on-man-sex-eschewing Phil Robertson? A pretty big sector of the Internet submits that it has not.

There are perfectly understandable reasons to be upset about Robertson’s suspension. But I, for one, am thrilled about it. I only wish A&E had gone further and suspended everyone on that stupid show, and also suspended everyone on all their other reality shows, and that all the other channels on TV that have reality shows had suspended all their stars too. Barring that, I wish great success to the Liberty Patriots who are boycotting A&E over Robertson’s suspension, and I hope all other Americans, regardless of their patriot status, will join the A&E boycott, and that the A&E boycott will spread to include all the other channels that show this kind of nonsense, and that we can finally just get rid of it all for good, forever and ever amen. I want everyone suspended. I want every channel boycotted. I want every show shuttered, and permanently. I want to watch it burn.

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KEYWORDS: boobtube; cheaptv; duckdynasty; hollywood; homosexualagenda; philrobertson; popculture; shlock
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To: Sir_Ed; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Sir_Ed, you are mistaken. "MythBusters" is not Reality TV... it is a documentary--

Right, Bender, like one of my... awards winning documentaries.

Gadzooks! I just threw up... in my mouth a little--

No, I threw up in my mouth... a lot!

Well, Ed, are you happy... now????

101 posted on 12/21/2013 4:35:28 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

He would be IF “Sons of Anarchy” were a reality show, I’ll betcha!


102 posted on 12/21/2013 4:47:51 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Howie66; Sir_Ed; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; ...
Re: He would be IF “Sons of Anarchy” were a reality show, I’ll betcha!

Howie, shame on you! We all know Sir_Ed and Wilbur both know really good Reality TV Shows... when they see them.

I'd say you got it straight from the horse's mouth but then I'd... feel really stupid--

103 posted on 12/21/2013 5:01:59 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

Hey Bender your little horse friend MR ED is on Antenna TV on week day I saw him on episode where he hit off Sandy Koufax

He is lucky that wasn’t Don Drysdale pitching to him

Drysdale would bean him


104 posted on 12/21/2013 5:38:20 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine
Re: Drysdale would bean him

Yeah, Seven, but I'd get on base... wouldn't I?

105 posted on 12/21/2013 5:49:47 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Sir_Ed
Glad to hear it had a Righteous ending that strove to convey a good message about bad behavior having bad endings.

Thanks for the back story.

106 posted on 12/21/2013 5:50:10 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: steelhead_trout

The easiest way to cancel programming is to quit watching those programs. The market will determine the outcome.


107 posted on 12/21/2013 5:53:13 PM PST by dforest
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To: Bender2

Lucky for him it wasn’t Nolan Ryan LOL!


108 posted on 12/21/2013 5:58:24 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Bender2

Mr Ed it is true you have peanut butter spread in your mouth get you talk LOL!


109 posted on 12/21/2013 5:58:59 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: steelhead_trout

Betsy Woodruff - don't like, don't watch, Ms. Elitist.

110 posted on 12/21/2013 5:59:06 PM PST by kcvl
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To: steelhead_trout

I always liked watching Whale Wars, to root for the Japanese whalers.


111 posted on 12/21/2013 7:04:16 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: kcvl

She is kinda cute, though, and, unlike the Fox Girls, sees no need to be a suicide blonde.


112 posted on 12/22/2013 8:55:10 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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