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Duck Dynasty Quaks
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, December 21 2013, 0:05:46 (UTC)
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...the media try to muddle stories if they can make them last past an ordinary cycle...that's why you get the feeling they're lame or foolish; because they avoid, like crazy, actually getting to the heart of an issue and maybe thereby losing a few more days of good copy...they take the side that is most guaranteed to keep a muddle going...to keep people outraged and venting...anything less would kill such a story as the rednecks on Duck Dynasty.

The media, especially conservative media is working overtime to pretend to frame this as an issue of religious freedom and free speech when it was just a bidness decision...the network doesn't want to lose that huge Gay AND Black audience for these kinds of silly shows from which they make millions, talk about your "redistribution of wealth"....the guy is free to say his peace and the network is free to fire him for saying it...what's the big deal?

The big deal is the BIG DEAL the media can make of it, completely obscuring what's actually going on.

The conservative are losing, have lost...began to lose with Reagan...it's just that they are in the majority and so it takes time for them to die out or, a few, change their minds and grow up a little.

Bill O'Reiley likes to brag that his show and others like it, are the top watched shows in the country...well, of course they are...that's because they're OF the times and by now behind the times, exactly where most people are whenever there is change in the air.

Way way back people practiced cannibalism....it made sense. When hunting was dangerous and something you had to do every day, rain or shine, cold, sleet or blazing sub...it got boring....and sometime you wanted a meal right THEN...so, when you woke up early one morning to start the hunt and found out that Oog had died in the night, probably from hunger...and it was cold and wet and you'd have to walk miles to catch a rat...old Oog looked pretty yummy....I mean there he was,,,all you had to do was drain him and skin him and you had breakfast....pretty tempting.

Times moved on and some people began to think eating your pals wasn't the best way to start a civilization...but they were in the MINORITY...the rest of them were all Bill O'Reileys who wanted to play it conservative and do it like it had always been done....and of course, they were the MAJORITY...so, when O'Reiley brags that most of the cannibals prefer his show, he deserves no credit for mirroring their prejudices...it's not like they tune into his show to hear the latest trends and discoveries...no, they just want to be reassured that cannibalism is here to stay.

You don't get to believe in ANYTHING and expect to be excused because it's your "religion"....and with freedom of speech comes responsibility...to your network, if nothing else. Yes, Duck Dynasty is wildly popular...but so was cannibalism.



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