The duck and jackass dynasty

[damnedifIknow]

I got the gist of the "Duck Dynasty" thing after my first and only viewing: bunch of rural jackasses who somehow struck it rich get brought into our living rooms to be laughed at by the rest of us aristocrats.

Well, all right. When the archetype first appeared on television via the "Beverly Hillbillies" it was also enormously popular, but also taken as an illustration of how TV was living down to its condemnation by FCC Chairman Newton Minow as a "vast wasteland."

In any event, A&E knew what it was doing when it put these people on the air, so its show of indignation in "suspending" one of them for speaking out against gays and the aspirations of African Americans falls a little flat.

What's truly ghastly, however, is the reaction of a couple of political figures. Sarah Palin's opinion isn't worth the eleven words I've just written to dismiss it. But Bobby Jindal still holds down office as the governor of Louisiana. That raises the question: Has it become acceptable again for an American politician to embrace unashamed bigotry? "

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-duck-20131221,0,6012046.story

[RKP5637]

1. It's very eye opening when the governor of a state endorses this racist and bigoted behavior.

Palin on the other hand is a zero, a failure at everything she's tried, an absolute zero in the big picture of improving humanity, rather, she chooses to be a bigoted and homophobic racist with these comments.

[hifijohn]

2. no kidding

Its like saying a saw a dog yesterday and it was barking! just take one look at this guy and what do you think is going to come out his mouth??