Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Publicly Bashed Gays for Years -- A&E Knew All About It

[Tx4obama]

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Phil Robertson Publicly Bashed Gays for Years -- A&E Knew All About It

A&E knew all about "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson feelings toward gays when it hired him -- because the guy openly preached that gays were going to hell years before the series started.

Take a look at the video (on the link below) of a 2010 sermon at Berean Bible Church in Pennsylvania ... it's pretty much your typical bible-thumping drill. Phil calls gay people shameful, perverse, heartless, faithless, senseless God haters ... destined for the burning pits of hell.

So with that backdrop ... A&E hired Robertson ... then allowed him to do an interview with GQ where it HAD to know the reporter would ask questions about his feelings toward gays ... and then when he answered honestly A&E punished Robertson.

Robertson may be misguided, but A&E is being dishonest for feigning shock about something it definitely knew all about.

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http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/19/phil-robertson-2010-sermon-homosexuality-gays-homophobia-a-and-e/

[NYC_SKP]

1. I saw that, surprised that it didn't surface earlier...

K/R

[FarCenter]

6. How many gays watch Duck Dynasty?

[JaneyVee]

9. Duck Dynasty seems like it watches gays.

[nomorenomore08]

13. Yeah, because only gays could ever give two shits about gays...

[el_bryanto]

23. I think the point was that A&E only cares about viewers - they aren't a charity nt

[nomorenomore08]

34. Valid point. And as I said before, slandering a whole group of people who've done nothing wrong

is bound to invite a backlash. Certainly in 2013.

[FarCenter]

10. A&E is a joint venture of Hearst and Disney

Home of Peter Pan, the 7 vertically challenged bachelor miners, and Belle, who got it on with the Beast.

[Erose999]

28. A reality tv star who got famous for inventing a whistle to make ducks horny so people can murder

them better wants to talk to you about the norms of human sexuality, in the context of a book written by bronze age goat herders and translated over half a millennium ago by multiple delegations of men sworn to celibacy.

Did I mention the show airs on the same network as Dog The Bounty Hunter, Intervention, and Hoarders?

[joeybee12]

3. Sort of makes you wonder if they wanted him to go nuclear...

No [publicity is bad publicity...the braindead will be sure to watch every week now.

[Lex]

4. I'm sure he signed a contract

that has language about not spouting off his bullshit while pocketing a check from A & E.

He did and they fired him.

[RedCappedBandit]

5. Their motive is profit.

They don't care about his views. They care what the public thinks about their programs.

Fortunately for us in this case, capitalism just happens to work in our favor. I'll take it.

[Kurovski]

7. Oh that A&E

Dump the whole show already.

They pretty much have to.

Especially when even more duckshit floats to the surface...and it will.

Or maybe a son will come out...tomorrow. Betch'er bottom dollar that would up the ratings.

[Tx4obama]

8. Kick! n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. The plot thickens. Lol

[Tx4obama]

12. I haven't seen it played on the news today - maybe they're saving it for tomorrow?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

14. Why are you assuming they knew all about him? They are a network. Not a production company.

They, along with other networks, buy reality TV episodes from producers. They don't necessarily vet a show's "characters" the way a politician's choice for political appointee might.

It seems you are drawing a lot of conclusions about A&E.

[Tx4obama]

15. You are assuming I wrote the article headline - I did not.

[politichew]

16. Here's a chilling video of one his sermons...

Lamenting women for abortion, trashing atheists and 'Muhammadists'

[Tx4obama]

18. The Video below is his anti-abortion sermon/rant

[a kennedy]

24. Yikes.....

[firsttimer]

17. Boycott A&E and all the stupid reality shows

If people stopped watching all these idiotic reality shows they might just go away.

I'm still trying to comprehend how Real House Wives stays on TV

[groundloop]

20. Real Housewives (and Duck Dynasty) stays on TV the same way Mitt Rmoney got 47% of the vote....

We have a large number of stupid, uneducated, gullible people in this country.

[Puzzledtraveller]

21. never seen it, don't care

they could still show the program or not, most of the viewers probably agreed with him anyway. I see this as A&E's problem. They knew they were putting profits ahead of their stated values before the first episode aired.

[Autumn]

22. Did he really say Blacks were happier under Jim Crow in his interview?

I haven't read it but a friend commented to another on FB who was saying she respected his honesty that yeah, the ass is real honest like when he said Blacks were happier under Jim Crow he must have been stoned in the 50s and 60s. The news covered it last night but nothing was mentioned about that,

[Ligyron]

25. Yeah, and a bunch of supposedly Black people on Yahoo are defending him. eom

[Tx4obama]

33. Article below

'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson Claims Black People Were 'Happy' Pre-Civil Rights

"Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson made headlines this week for his anti-gay sentiments in a GQ interview. Now another statement from the interview -- this time about the black community during the pre-civil rights era -- is stirring more controversy.

GQ's Drew Magary sat down with the "Duck Dynasty" patriarch for a candid interview about his road to fame. The 67-year-old journeyed from substance abuse to devotion to God to small-screen celebrity, all in the backwoods of Louisiana. According to Robertson, growing up in those Louisiana backwoods in the pre-civil rights era was not bad for black people.

“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person," Robertson is quoted in GQ. "Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field.... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/phil-robertson-black-people_n_4473474.html

[ehrnst]

26. Seems like a GREAT way to get some free publicity, once you think about it.

I wouldn't be surprised if A&E was using him in this way - or perhaps he's smarter than he appears and participated.

[Blue Owl]

27. Bet he likes lickin' terlits, too

n/t

[closeupready]

29. Personally, I would NEVER work for a homophobe.

Nor a racist, or bigot of any kind. If it came out after the fact in crystal clarity fashion as it has in the case of this guy, I would be so out of there/finding another job.

[MNBrewer]

30. Yep, and morons like Andrew Sullivan who claim that

his redneckishness was merely a persona are wrong (so predictable in A.S.'s case).

[Dead Man Texting]

31. A&E has gone to shit over the past decade

As have Discovery and NatGeo.

[hifijohn]

35. amazed

I'm amazed people are shocked, I mean just look at the guy, what do you think is going to come out of his mouth??

[Vashta Nerada]

36. I'm shocked. SHOCKED!