What’s intolerant about that? He would tolerate the guy getting hit by a bus.
P.S. That conservatard trope of trying to turn around every liberal criticism with “I’m rubber, you’re glue” was tired and unconvincing when they came up with it (“They made fun of Bush’s public speaking ability, hmm… Obama’s a bad speaker too! Look, he uses a teleprompter!” or more to the point “You’re hypocritical for not being tolerant of my intolerance!”) and it hasn’t aged well.
WRONG. Are all documentaries and news and scientific programing also all completely made up? of course not. i’d like to think any rational person differentiates and discriminates intelligently between the vast spectrum of content provided by this neutral medium. medium bias much?
Your sledgehammer of a viewpoint does not accurately fit the broad spectrum that is is the reality of television nor could it possibly address the differences between such programs being discussed. why chime in to a conversation discussing the differences with the thick minded view of “its all the same”? Or “if you see any differences it is just you”? Just because you don’t see the difference being discussed doesn’t in any way preclude such a conversation from being valid. More likely, according to occam razor, is that you simply just don’t see them yourself, making chiming in kinda pointless.
i have no expectations about trashy shows such a DD so that isn’t the issue at all. Not all content presented through the neutral medium of television is trash like DD, nor is it all false or made up or anything. It is a neutral medium, like any medium, it can be used to present any type of information, and just because the swatch of programming you consume might be all made up crap posing as reality, like wwf, doesn’t make it all made up crap posing as reality.
so unless you have something of value to add to the distinctions being discussed, i’ll have to ask that you not claim they don’t exist just because you aren’t privy to them.
well then, happy new year in advance. 
Yeah, we kick it early in Aus… gonna watch skrillex and become chemically enhanced 
Happy new years to you and all! (yes, even Shane and Mitch)
sounds like a fun way to welcome in the new year. just don’t try the pufferfish, it works better for dolphins. 
Don’t want you as an ally, or your concerns advice.
& so, guess who’s gonna REALLY get fired?
Totally. If I’m going to indulge in TV, then I’m going to go for the full fantasy, like watching Downton Abbey or Doctor Who or Monday Night Football or something like that.
Doctor Who is a great show. I’m curious to see how I like the new Doctor.
Ohhhhhh, how sad. I came from The South too. Never had that pathetic persecution complex, or need to troll Boing Boing with bogus stories…
Me too. Every new Doctor has been problematic from the beginning. Every single one. With James Bond, they continually find the next new dapper, handsome, strong, smooth guy. The Doctors are wiley, usually ugly or at least not particularly handsome and all of them are somewhat uncomposed and seat-of-the-pants.
But their characters all grow on you and make you feel something like, hmm, interesting guy. It’s a testament to the show’s core value of entertaining you AND making you think. Some. It is still fantasy. But damn if it doesn’t make me start believing there are such things as a time vortex and relative dimensions and all that stuff.
To the original original original point of the whole thread, Duck Dynasty does NONE of these things. NONE. If it made me think and feel something worthwhile, I’d watch it.
true, there is always the break in period, but then they grow on you.
the one quality Duck Dynasty has it is kinda like a traffic accident, you can’t look away it is so bad…
i think it appeals to a class of american that views themselves as something other then what they are, the sarah palin wanna be crowd. They vicariously identify with them. They don’t realize they are being duped into liking people who are the exact opposite of what they idealize, but that happens to the same people politically as well, so i guess they are used to it. rich white guys pretending to be on their side while fleecing them for every penny they can. at least that is my take/opinion on the phenomenon.
I dunno, Sylvester McCoy never grew on me at all. Might have made for a good Hobbit though. His name even sounds kind of hobbity. And as much as I’ve liked Eccleston in other things, he indulged in a bit too much amphetamine-induced scenery-chewing in his brief tenure.
But yeah, Duck Dynasty can eat the corn out of my turds.
EDIT: Well, son of a bitch, McCoy was in The Hobbit! I had no idea. Albeit as a wizard rather than a halfling, but still!
Can’t tell if you’re defending him or the bible…
A&E does not have “everything to do with the production” of Duck Dynasty. The show is made by Gurney Productions and A&E has exclusive broadcast rights. If A&E dropped DD, Gurney could sell it to somebody else. In the end A&E needs DD much more than DD needs A&E.
In contrast, Amazon is a reseller and doesn’t own any special distribution rights, so the situations are different.
A similar situation is Mel Gibson and his drunken tirade against Jews. Both Gibson and Robertson are getting well deserved criticism for the personal views. I suppose broadcasters should stop airing Lethal Weapon and Braveheart and pretend that Mad Max was never made.
Umm… Neither? Just being pedantic, as that’s really the only contribution I have to this conversation as somebody who neither watches nor cares about this show (or the bible, for that matter :))
Not your choice, is it?
Yes, my viewpoint is the sledgehammer.
I am not responsible for your expectations, I’m just saying it doesn’t sound like you are either.
According to Robertson, men should marry 15 or 16 year old girls. Once a woman hits 20, she will just take your money. (link)
because one finds a behavior detestable in no way implies that they did or didn’t expect to find it detestable or find it detestable because of any preconceived expectations of said behavior, you can’t really infer one from the other, the logic doesn’t follow.
