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In reply to the discussion: Here's Everything We Learned From the Duck Dynasty Controversy Summed Up in Just One Sentence [View all]anti partisan
(429 posts)19. Yes he's a fraud but is he actually destroying lives?
I don't watch the show, but form what I gather, he's a characature of a backwoods hillbilly and is supposed to play the role of an unintentional laughing stock. Whatever words he says aren't supposed to be followed as gospel by anyone, and if anything they are delegitimized based on the fool's mouth from which they originate.
The only people who are really acting despicably right now are the right-wingers who are defending his words, but I haven't really seen much about them except the Palins, who are already pretty delegitimized to the general public.
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Here's Everything We Learned From the Duck Dynasty Controversy Summed Up in Just One Sentence [View all]
Miles Archer
Dec 2013
OP
Your facebook friend is using the same tactic used on DU to excuse the Pope's
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#31
There are a couple of unintended positive consequences from the Schmuck Dynasty Broohaha.
WowSeriously
Dec 2013
#8
And, that one sentence is: "Some people need to be ignored to the extent possible."
Coyotl
Dec 2013
#10
A gay black man’s response to A&E’s reversal of Phil Robertson’s suspension from ‘Duck Dynasty’
Cha
Dec 2013
#13
They definitely want gays dead. And another group of people are going to be used for their purpose:
freshwest
Dec 2013
#16
That which this guy says about Phil Duck applies also to Francis the Pope
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#30