GOP Congressional Candidate: Duck Dynasty Star Is 'Rosa Parks Of Our Generation'

[Capt. Obvious]

A Republican congressional candidate in Illinois puts 'Duck Dynasty' patriarch Phil Robertson on par with Rosa Parks.

In a fundraising email to supporters, Ian Bayne, who is running in the Republican primary to challenge Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) in the 11th District, compared Robertson to Rosa Parks. The fundraising email began: "Today, Ian Bayne called Phil Robertson, star of the A&E series "Duck Dynasty," the 'Rosa Parks' of our generation."

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"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians," Bayne wrote in the email. "What Parks did was courageous."

Bayne added in the email that "what Robertson did was courageous too."

Exactly the same

Yes, possibly losing your reality tv show is the same as getting arrested, beaten, dogs, hoses, etc.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. You are

f*cking kidding me right?

This is what happens when we allow even one ounce of white washing. I have no doubt that by the time I'm 80 if people like this have their ways it will actually be poor black people in the South who imposed Jim Crow on white folks.

No doubt at all.

This is the insanity that is permeating the world now.

[atreides1]

28. You know what?

I really believe that this is already happening "poor black people in the South who imposed Jim Crow on white folks.", and has been for years!

Which is why Teapublicans in the South have such a strong following...those voters actually believe that blacks were better off!

[JustAnotherGen]

29. I 100% agree

And it's not just in the South. It's all over America. They are no longer just in the South. They are everywhere.

[TeamPooka]

2. Promoting a reality TV show is the most courageuous action a redneck can take.

[Rex]

3. Is it just me, or does the stupid seem to be rising?

Better get to higher ground...the stupid is advancing rapidly!

[malaise]

30. Sadly it's not just you

They're now stupid on steroids

[politichew]

4. Jesus fucking Christ.

Someone stop this planet. I want off.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Or at least out of this country of self-absorbed idiots. That would work for me

:bounce

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Oh, good grief. This is just getting ridiculous!

How can a sane person make such a comparison?

[LibertyLover]

25. Pardon me for mentioning this but

putting "GOP Congressional Candidate" and "sane" in such close proximity just isn't going to end well.

[Arkansas Granny]

31. Good point. The backlash could very well be dangerous.

[Mike Daniels]

6. Seems like someone needs to take a drug test post-haste

How out of your gourd do you need to be to make a statement this idiotic?

It's getting to the point whether I don't know if some of these clowns are really this stupid or just laughing to the bank as they cynically tell their audience whatever they want to hear.

[ryan_cats]

7. Oh great, will they start naming streets after him?

Oh great, will they start naming streets after him?

I am shocked at how some people have no clue about history. I have a hard time believe people are this stupid but unfortunately, they are.

[Blanket Statements]

8. Ohhhh please...they really are taking this to the extreme

[riversedge]

9. Uck. The real problem is that he and his followers actually believe

what they spout!!

[City Lights]

10. LOL, yeah right.

Another clueless fuck running on the GOPee ticket.

[Initech]

11. And Jesus wept I believe is the next verse.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Rosa Parks stood up for black working people...

Phil Robertson stood up for assholes.

Pick your hero.

[upaloopa]

13. Yea I remember when Rosa was happy singing on the bus

Back in the sixties.

[PoliticalPothead]

14. Just when you thought the GOP couldn't get any stupider.

They compare a civil rights icon to a redneck bigot. Absolutely disgusting.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Well they recently compared apartheid to their fight against Obamacare.

[Turbineguy]

15. It's the sort of thing you have to say

to be noticed in crazyland. Anything less, you just blend right in.

[Johonny]

16. Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians except the following Christians

adulterers (which Matthew includes divorced so 50 % of married people)
idolaters (So pretty much anyone that buys Duck Dynasty merchandise)
homosexual offenders (So pretty much the priesthood)
the drunkards (67 % of Americans drink alcohol)
slanderers (good bye FOX news)
the swindlers (and the GOP)
the greedy (The guy has 15 million so good bye to him).

Besides that he stood up for persecution of Christians. You know the non-drinking, never divorced, poor, non-idol worshiping ones. So basically no one. Every other Christian you can pretty much persecute according to the man.

[LanternWaste]

18. As a Presbyterian, I'm trying to feel persecuted by his suspension for bigoted remarks...

"Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christian...

As a Presbyterian, I'm trying to feel persecuted by his suspension for bigoted remarks, but it's just not happening...

But then again, I do avoid using my faith to rationalize any ugly or vulgar remarks I may say.

[LiberalAndProud]

20. Foster must be looking forward to the debates.

[1StrongBlackMan]

21. Rosa Parks? ...

What? Not, Nelson Martin Luther King-Ghandi?

[kiranon]

22. That's just sad. Such ignorance or intentional ignorance

by someone running for office is a disgrace. The "persecution of Christians" is their attempt to reframe anti gay and anti African American remarks. IMHO.

[NV Whino]

23. He's going to be real upset when he finds out he's black.

[NightWatcher]

24. I never read the Rosa Parks interview in GQ about how her millions of dollars were treating her

[d_r]

26. give the guy a break

he meant "B. B. King," but it got confusing for him.

[jsr]

27. The GOP House will fund a statue to honor the fake redneck

[Gothmog]

32. The GOP idiot is dumb enough to be part of the Texas GOP delegation

I have heard some stupid crap from the Texas GOP delegation but the above statement is up there

[rhett o rick]

33. What is being overlooked is that the right wing attack defending dipshit Robertson is

being waged against a strawman. They are acting like they are fighting liberalism. They are too stupid to realize that the liberals support Robertson's right to speak his tiny, bigoted mind. It was A&E that fired him. And it has nothing to do with the content of what he said but the possible loss of profits.