The A.V. Club on Palin's remarks about Duck Dynasty's 1st Amendment rights

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Sarah Palin and others protest the revoking of Duck Dynasty star's First Amendment rights to be on a TV show


By Sean O'Neal •

Dec 19, 2013 • 12:03PM

Yesterday A&E was dismayed to discover that Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson had espoused the sort of ignorance it had hoped would remain safely locked away somewhere, in the surely hours upon hours of unused footage left after producers cut around him espousing the fun kind of ignorance, which A&E has ridden to such ratings success. But in light of Robertson’s views on the unholy illogicality of gays and buttholes, of which A&E now realizes it was largely aware, the network has been forced to suspend Robertson indefinitely from the show. “We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson's comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and are not reflected in the series Duck Dynasty,” said the network, which has prided itself on always taking care to ensure its hit show only reflects the kind of backwardness that doesn’t draw the condemnation of GLAAD.

Anyway, as you might have predicted the second a “real folk” TV star invoked Jesus, before implicitly linking homosexuality to bestiality and terrorism, Robertson’s suspension has already garnered a lot of vocal support from conservative and Christian groups, who have called upon other “real folk” to stand up for the rights of their fellow, salt-of-the-earth, reality TV show millionaire, which are being so unfairly trammeled by the cable network that will nevertheless continue to stoke his family’s fame and fortune. “Everyday people will not stand for this, they know bullying and violation of religious freedom when they see it,” reads one such petition launched by the Christian shopping guide Faith Driven Consumer, which definitely knows how to write inflated sales copy, in its unintentionally (?) insulting summation of what all these “real folk” really know.

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