The ‘Duck Dynasty’ Controversy: Things that stink and things that don’t
I have never seen an episode of Duck Dynasty. I have only seen interviews of the main characters on television interviews—so I have no way of knowing anything about the actual show they conduct. My primary exposure to them comes from a table full of material they have at my local bookstore that I can’t help but notice during my weekly visit to purchase my supply of books. From what I know about them, they appear to be like most of the people I know—so there is no drive for me to see how they live. I’m already where they are—so there is nothing special going on. If I had to put my finger onto why they have the top rated show on cable television it would be due to the fact that through progressive educations, everyone else is rediscovering their value system which has been socially suppressed through the Duck Dynasty.
A good friend of mine who sometimes opines here grew a long beard like the Duck Dynasty guys during an age when it was really unpopular. He was only 25 years old at the time so he looked oddly out-of-place everywhere he went—which was fine with me. I enjoyed his brand of rebellion, so the odd looks suited my entertainment. We’d go out to eat at a Wendy’s or McDonald’s, I’d have my hat on, he’d have his long flowing beard and people thought we stepped out of the Appalachian mountains while other people our age were dressing in the latest campus fashions. During the 90s nobody who lived near a city grew beards like that—only motorcycle riders, and mountain men. That guy was a genius level personality who wanted desperately to be a mountain man—but too many social entanglements prevented it at the time. So he grew a beard that would have made ZZ Top jealous. But after a while, he moved through that phase and decided to shave it off and go clean shaven—so he cut the thing off and hung it on a wall in his bathroom, fully intact. It was all woven together like someone had knitted it, and hung it in a mask like form on the wall next to his sink. My daughters were scared of using the restroom at his home because of that beard. They didn’t want to be in the same room with it.
So I have a little history with the type of people who are in the Duck Dynasty show. There are quite a few of them who live from Appalachia to Utah. They are quite common around Bristol, Tennessee, and can often be seen living in trailers in the middle of Idaho—living debt free and seeking no human entanglements. If a person were to go to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota, a lot of those beards would be seen. They are as common as air in a place like that. But in New York and Los Angeles they are an anomaly. In those progressive cities, the European sensibilities have taken root from across both ponds, and people just don’t do those kinds of things. Rugged individualism is a concept of wonder that they cannot grasp, which is why a progressive cable channel like A&E put the Robertson family on television to begin with—as a kind of eccentric fascination that the folks on Brand, and Wilshire Blvd could gawk at and feel good about themselves. They had no idea they were tapping into a reservoir of unrepresented frustration experienced throughout the rest of the country. So I can see how they would be upset when A&E had to run up against the comments of Phil Robertson’s GQ interview about homosexual behavior—which represents most of the country’s opinion. The LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transvestites) community represents around 3% of the total American population, but as a lobby force—since they have made themselves the squeaky wheels—they have captured the interests of major corporations terrified of activism lawsuits, if discrimination is shown toward gay oriented people. So to prove corporations are open to all forms of living—so to avoid parasitic social shaping lawsuits, most corporations have come out in open acceptance of gay behavior—which was the reason for the aggressive action by the LGBT community regarding Phi Robertson.
Most corporate types lack any personal convictions—so they see no problem yielding to the LGBT community. It is good business to show acceptance to all lifestyles. Unfortunately for them, they are not very good at predicting content that the American people want—so they often happen across success by accident—which clearly was the case with the Duck Dynasty people. They are used to celebrities who have found fame and fortune bending to their will to keep the money train humming along—and that includes yielding to special interest advocates like the LGBT community. They are not used to celebrities like Phil Robertson who are functioning from an authenticity that is not for sale. People like Phil Robertson are who they are whether or not they are being paid millions of dollars for it—and at the heart of the recent controversy where Phil Robertson made his feelings about gay sex quite clear—is the collision of progressive politics, and authenticity—the kind of honesty that has made the popular A&E television show so fashionable among a very hungry public.
I know a bit about what Phil is going through. I know what’s it’s like to come across a progressive perception of things, and when told by the establishment to “apologize” and you don’t—but stick by your guns—which I will sum up at the end of this article. The reason Robertson is in trouble is because of the kind of beliefs he has expressed below. All of these issues are common observations from people in the flyover states, on the farms, the factories, and barber shops all across Middle America. It is for that reason that they tune in to watch Duck Dynasty, because to them somebody finally put on a show that speaks to them—instead of some coastal crap about hippie free love, reckless religious conviction, and overly emotional despots. The progressive establishment has worked hard to change the beliefs of people with an opposite message, which Phil Robertson exposed on episodes of their television show well before the recent gay remarks.
The below comments are excerpts from one of those insulted progressive types. Check them out:
Robertson thinks black Americans were treated just fine in the Jim Crow-era South, and that they were happy there. ”I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”
Robertson thinks the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they didn’t believe in Jesus. ”All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.”
Robertson hates gay people. Robertson in 2010: “Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.” Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/when-you-defend-phil-robertson-heres-what-youre-really-defending-2013-12#ixzz2oCcXh1Rk
But more specifically, based on the GQ article, Phil said:
“It seems like, to me, a vagina — as a man — would be more desirable than a man’s anus,” he said. “That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/12/duck-dynasty-gay-gq-phil-robertson-homophobe-homosexual/
What’s wrong with that? It’s an opinion based on years of experience? Yet the LGBT community believes this kind of opinion should be attacked because it goes against their social agenda which is the erosion of traditional values. However, for a guy like me—that is an insult—when they attack traditional relationships with traditional sexual practices they are attacking me. Yet I don’t protest Madonna who was a major advocate of the LGBT community, or Hillary Clinton who does the same—even though they only represent a very small portion of the population. When Phil Robertson speaks, he’s stating what a guy like me is already thinking.
When the film Broke Back Mountain came out and those two mainstream actors had anal sex in a tent far away from their wives, then fell in love with each other, I tried to watch and accept the story because it was so critically appraised. But the unrealistic nature of the whole thing was inescapable. I’ve been on many camping trips and on those kinds of endeavors with other guys—those kinds of activities are not desirable. My wife and I never pass gas in front of each other, there is no belching at the Hoffman dinner table, and there are never, and I mean never, “toot jokes” in my home, or around me. Human gas is a part of the digestion process, but it is also disgusting. It belongs with the rest of human feces, somewhere out of site so that intellectual pursuits can be established. The sex engaged in during Broke Back Mountain is unrealistic. That would have made such a mess that the filth afterwards would have made their back country trip unbearably uncomfortable. Without a shower immediately afterwards the smell would be disgusting. When Phil Robertson was talking about a vagina over an anus he’s talking about this kind of thing. With a woman, you can make love on a beach, in the woods, on top of your house, and when you’re done you don’t have to take a shower or even change the sheets. You can just go to sleep. With anal sex, absolutely no way—somebody will be taking a shower as feces would be everywhere. For a gay couple to do such a thing then go to sleep afterwards it would be like having a dog that rolled in feces out in the yard jump in your bed in the middle of the night and leave behind all the yard waste into the sheets of slumber. It would not be a good thing. Human beings have perverted the sex act and used such an orifice with the assistance of modern lubricants that are very unnatural. Without access to such things, anal sex would be impossible unlike with a woman where once the engine is running, it takes care of itself.
I don’t even like to use the restroom on camping trips because it makes me feel dirty. Fecal matter is not an attractive attribute of human existence. The appeal of it is contrived, not natural—and for more people to experiment with it, the LGBT community needs people to participate in such sex out of rebellion against the establishment. What Phil Robertson did was expose what everyone else is already thinking—and when they heard it; it got them off the hook of guilt that the gay community tries to invoke in order to promote their life style. Many years ago I worked with a sexual deviant who shared a story with the same friend whom I referred to who grew the beard. We were salesman at a dealership and between sales there was a lot of time to talk. This guy and his wife were very adventurous sexually, and he’d tell us all about his latest escapades. (My friend will remember the guy—his name was Perry.) One thing he had done the previous night was have is wife defecate onto a sheet of glass that he put over his face so he could watch it drop out and plop against the barrier between him and his wife. I told him he was insanely disgusting and he’d laugh and say, “To each, his own.” He had a twisted sense of erotic behavior. For me the smell alone would have been it, let alone watching such a thing. For a gay couple, they would have to accept that kind of odor, and the byproducts of engagement. A small percentage of the population likely has their wires crossed like that guy and his wife—where like dogs, they like fecal matter. They have a right to like what they want, but I don’t want to know about it. It is their dysfunctional behavior, not mine—and that is my general feeling about the whole LGBT population.
The gay pride people are afraid of people coming to these logical conclusions because it will end their spread of the social relationships between a man and a woman in a traditional family which they seek to destroy. They have the same level of deceit that public schools have over their funding issues, or government has over its spending. Being typical Kant trained Keynesian economic theorists they believe that as long as they do not speak of evil, hear any evil, or participate in any evil through their own lack of recognition of any value judgment, that there is no evil. The LGBT community has the same approach, they want vagina sex to be equal to anal sex—and they aren’t, one stinks, and one doesn’t. But in order to propel that belief, they need society to remain suppressed, and stupid acting out of rebellion, instead of logic. Logic says that the dudes in Broke Back Mountain would have had to clean off their dip sticks somewhere after the act. They wouldn’t just be able to get on their horses and do a day’s worth of hard riding. Only a gay writer from Santa Monica could even think this was possible as he has countless gels and lotions next to his bed to disguise the odor. But in Broke Back Mountain, such things were not around, only human spittle—nothing else—and that is just gross.
The reason for the beard and the popularity of the Duck Dynasty is that the characters are speaking the language of a part of society that has been suppressed deeply. The explosion of popularity seen by the A&E show is the untapped potential that Hollywood has been trying to avoid so to propel a progressive agenda. Duck Dynasty is about authenticity, and little else. And that traditional authentic behavior is something that America is very hungry for. What happened after Phil Robertson made his comments was that the LGBT community saw a sleeping giant come to Phil’s defense, and that scares them. A&E thought a token suspension until everything cooled off would suffice, but it didn’t. The LGBT community tried to force the issue, Phil Robertson didn’t back down, and lines in the sand were drawn. Forty years of public relations work likely went out the window in the period of one week as a majority of America found themselves supporting Robertson, and rejecting the arguments of the LGBT community. What will be one of the most common Christmas presents in 2013? Likely, Duck Dynasty material. What will be the number one topic around Christmas dinner tables—likely the stand Phil Robertson took against the LGBT community. Without question, many people who try that whole back-door approach with their spouses find the whole thing a lot less appealing than the vagina. The LGBT community has sold the whole thing in such a way that it makes people want to try it—but the reality is disgusting. Phil Robertson just gave people who feel that way a pass to not try it—and that is what the LGBT community is terrified of. Their peer pressure has folded because the Duck Dynasty guys refused to back off their position against anal sex. Like the act itself, the concept has more appeal than the reality. In the end, everything comes out smelling bad—just like the movement by the LGBT community. And Americans don’t like things that stink.
Rich Hoffman
