Phil Robertson (of Duck Dynasty) Calls STDs "Revenge of the Hippies" at CPAC

[Initech]

Phil Robertson is very concerned about the rate of sexually transmitted infections in America.

Robertson, one of the stars of A&E's "Duck Dynasty" who was suspended from the show in 2013 after making anti-gay remarks, appeared Friday at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference to accept the Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award from Citizens United.

Addressing the annual gathering of conservatives, Robertson hit on a number of popular right-wing talking points, including his allegiance to the Bible and his disdain for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). The speech took a turn, however, when the "Duck Dynasty" patriarch began lamenting the United States' high incidence of STIs.

"You lose your religion, according to John Adams, and there goes your morality. We're almost there," Robertson said. "I hate to admit I got my facts from the CDC the day before yesterday, 110 million, 110 million Americans now have a sexually transmitted illness."

Robertson was citing a 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis that found 110 million men and women currently have sexually transmitted infections.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/phil-robertson-cpac-stds_n_6770838.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20Voices

These people are like a bad parody of fundamentalist Christians.

[randys1]

1. bigot

[spanone]

2. they gave this racist bozo an award, jeeeeeebus!!!!! ..and look at the name of the award!

... appeared Friday at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference to accept the Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award from Citizens United.

[Initech]

3. That is a thing that exists.

[Chimeradog]

18. sickening

This says it all....


Sad that low information voters in rural south still watch this fakery. this is Robertson's true factual background also. A millionaire and tv fraud:



http://smellslikechlorine.com/2014/06/05/phil-robertson-quarterback-lsu/

[Terra Alta]

4. so according to this nutcase, 1 in 3 Americans have an STD.

I'm sure a good number of that "110 million Americans" are professing Christians.

But yeah, it's all the hippies' fault.

[marym625]

5. aren't they also

Fundamentalist Christians?

[Initech]

6. Yeah the joke I was trying to make is that they're so batshit insane...

That it makes them look like a bad parody of fundamentalist Christians.

[marym625]

9. Sorry

I was thinking, is there a difference between reality and a parody when it comes to them?

[RKP5637]

7. Oh no, never, they are 1000% disease free, they pray away diseases, don't

you know! These people are such damn fools it lowers ones IQ just listening to any of their babble.

[marym625]

10. Too bad anyone listens

If no one did, we wouldn't have to think about them and become collectively, dumber.

[RKP5637]

14. Sadly we have to observer them as they are highly dangerous to the survival of a democracy! n/t

[marym625]

16. Oh yeah. Most definitely

[edgineered]

8. Let's not forget the exclusion of these people:

NYC, Orthodox Jews in talks over ritual after herpes cases

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4990a0f866bc43a49dd8329f96a5cf92/nyc-orthodox-jews-talks-over-ritual-after-herpes-cases

[Warpy]

11. He's a typical southern good ole boy, sent to college on a football scholarship

but wondered why the world was changing to the point that "losers who didn't even make the team" were turning out to be successful.

I will always hope that CPAC is the dying gasp of the southern culture that produced it, a toxic blend of misplaced nostalgia, rabid fundamentalist religion, a long history of making decisions based on spite, anti intellectualism, and the unshakable belief that everybody else in the world is wrong.

The big cities down south have changed. The small towns and rural areas are still dominated by the Robertson types.

[Wella]

12. You may not like the messenger, but the CDC numbers are correct:

http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/sti-estimates-fact-sheet-feb-2013.pdf

CDC’s new data suggest that there are more than 110 million total STIs among men and women across the nation. CDC’s analyses included eight common STIs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B virus (HBV), herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis, and trichomoniasis.

The CDC also claims that 20 million NEW cases are added each year. This would mean that the current number stands at 130 million.

Considering that the population of the US was 315 million in 2013 and is currently 317 million, you have the following:

Percentage of Americans with STDs:

2013: 35%
2014: 41%

We're quickly approaching a nation where a full half of the population will have some form of STD. This is terrifying.

[MrScorpio]

13. He blames "The hippies"

I blame biology.

[Wella]

15. The sexual revolution has played a part, at least according to this study:

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
Volume 13 Number 3 Fall 2008
http://www.jpands.org/vol13no3/malhotra.pdf

The author is:
Sheetal Malholtra, M.B.B.S., M.S
Epidemiologist for the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin, Tex. Contact: [e-mail]

[MrScorpio]

19. So, it was the Hippies who were responsible for the Sexual Revolution? nt

[Wella]

20. Most of the sources I have read credit the pill, the sexual revolution,and the size of the baby boom

generation for the increase in STDs in the 1970s. Our current rates seem to have more to do with the increasingly younger ages of sexual activity (junior high) and the increasing variety of sexual practices (group sex, an increase in anal sex, etc.) according to sources. The oversexualization of American culture certainly plays a part in this as well.

[Yupster]

27. Any stats from before the 60's?

Hard to compare without before stats.The 110 million is frightening though.

[Wella]

28. I'll look. It's hard to find them on the CDC website.

Good point.

[LanternWaste]

41. Damn hippies fighting the confederacy. Damn hippies fighting Jerry.

In a two-year period during the Civil War, the Union Army documented 100,000 cases of gonorrhea. During World War I, the Army lost 7 million person-days and discharged more than 10,000 men because they were ailing from STDs.

Damn hippies fighting the confederacy. Damn hippies fighting Jerry.

[Warpy]

29. Hippies had pretty much gone out of business 40 years ago

although a few of the back to the land types were still trying to make a go of farming here and there. Mostly, the hair had been cut, the beards shaved off, women had relearned how to walk in heels, and everybody had gone to work to feed their kids, just like every generation before them.

This clown needs to find somebody else to blame for all the loathsome diseases he's caught because he can't keep it zipped.

Maybe he needs to look in the mirror.

[Euphoria]

34. +1 for sentiment.

+1 for quality of writing. Nicely done.

[Yo_Mama]

25. Biology hasn't changed - sexual behavior has, to some extent.

I would think the pill has a lot to do with it, but the plague of STDs in the US is real, and the numbers are most certainly not going in the right direction.

From the CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/sti-estimates-fact-sheet-feb-2013.pdf

Abstaining from sex, reducing the number of sexual partners, and consistently and correctly using condoms are all effective STI prevention strategies.

[MrScorpio]

35. I would think that if we invested in both sex education, healthcare and condom more available

This problem wouldn't be as bad as it is.

Simply compare the corresponding numbers between states that invest in those programs to prevent unwanted pregnancies versus the states that don't.

I'm would hazard to guess that states with active programs also share lower rates of STD cases.

[mercuryblues]

31. With those

numbers wouldn't it be nice if someone, anyone could come up with an idea to teach young people about safe sex? It could happen at schools, where young people attend in great numbers. Start clinics and fund them to help lower income and teens to ashamed to go to their fundie parents for medically accurate information about being sexually active. We could name this place Planned Parenthood.

Instead we get abstinence only and medically inaccurate info given and clinics defunded and legislated into closing because of their "religious" beliefs. Then he has the fucking gall to blame it on everyone but people like him. I hope he buys Hell, Michigan. It will keep him cool in the afterlife.

[MrScorpio]

36. Thank you. nt

[mercuryblues]

39. You are welcome n/t

[Chimeradog]

17. Do not watch

that idiot shills show...Phil Robertson now is part of "newz" Americas should talk about?


Only time I saw him is a garbage commercial for Zaxby's chicken in the south, he represents YET another reason why I no longer watch any tv except for actual films and link/fstv.

Reality trash=Frauds

[Initech]

21. They're the redneck Kardashians.

Another family who is inexplicably popular.

[Chimeradog]

22. Yes....

and therein lies the tragedy of some

Americans who watch this trash...dumbing down agenda well according to plan.
It boggles my mind who can sit through and watch this garbage....and not believe it is all scripted fakery

It truly does amaze me.

[Initech]

26. To quote the late great Bill Hicks:

"They are demons set loose on the earth to lower the standards."

[Lars39]

23. I bet he's against sex ed in schools.

[Tanuki]

32. He's probably also against mass HPV vaccinations.n/t

[Lars39]

33. Yes!

Or against anything that would actually help people.

[Yo_Mama]

24. Some people have multiple infections, so one-third of Americans is not correct.

But the CDC did estimate 110 million infections from just 8 common STDs.

[bemildred]

30. And Phil Robertson is the revenge of too much inbreeding and bad food. nt

[L0oniX]

37. There are hippies living in his beard.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

38. Why is a duck call maker/reality TV persona the headliner event of a political conference?

That says more about CPAC than anything else.

[NCTraveler]

40. Old but good.