Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt So I'm currently in Arizona, visiting my sister and her family for the holidays, and while channel surfing last night I happened across an episode of Duck Dynasty. I'd never even heard of the show until the big bigot flap began so I thought I'd watch the show in order to "educate" myself. The show comes across far more contrived and scripted than I had imagined - from the lighting to the camera angles, and even to the positioning of the cast members. I gave it my best but the show (at least the episode I caught) was so uninteresting and dull I ended up continuing to surf. The best I can give this whole thing is a shoulder shrug.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "I'd never even heard of the show until the big bigot flap began so I thought I'd watch the show in order to "educate" myself." You must shop at much finer establishments than I do, lol.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Heck, where I live they even carry Duck Dynasty stuff in the convenience stores attached to gas stations.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Barnes and Noble had a bunch of stuff from Duck Dynasty the other night.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Yeah, I don't think that San Francisco is a hot market for Duck Dynasty merchandise, lol.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "More like they are hoping to sell more merchandise. " Well, I thought that went without saying. That's why they want people to rally around him. It's all about merch sales at this point, really.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Me and Evan (my six year old) like to roll eyes at each other when we see Duck Dynasty merchandise. The other day we saw a singing/christmas decor thing of the main bearded guy that sang and danced when you pushed the button. It was painful. We about got our eyes stuck in the backs of our heads on that one. He still made me push two buttons while he pushed the other two so all four of them sang together at once. lol
Originally Posted By ecdc He was brilliant on 30 Rock but seems to have an anger management issue. Next?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Rightly or wrongly, he was also fired from his gig instantly. Unlike this meaningless "suspension"after the season was already shot.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Baldwin was great in Hunt For Red October. I always felt he missed out not being Jack Ryan ever since then.
Originally Posted By ecdc Looks like we've got some good responses for you, Donny. The consensus seems to be Alec Baldwin: Good actor who was immediately terminated from his position at MSNBC upon using gay slurs after losing his temper with a paparazzi. Phil Robertson: Guy who deliberately changed his appearance and manner to act like a dumb redneck hick in an attempt to appeal to actual dumb, redneck hicks, and, either sincerely or as part of his shtick, says totally ignorant things about gays and subsequently has paranoid, ignorant white conservatives flock to his side.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Seems to me that Charlie Sheen also got canned pretty quickly from a top-rated show. His comments were off-the-wall and stupid, but not really offensive.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <and, either sincerely or as part of his shtick, says totally ignorant things about gays and subsequently has paranoid, ignorant white conservatives flock to his side.> And let's not forget his comments about the "happy, singing" black folks back before civil rights ruined everything. To his white conservative flock, that's a major plus too.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Were you expecting we would support Alec Baldwin's disgusting rants, Donny?
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Were you expecting we would support Alec Baldwin's disgusting rants, Donny?<< Donny can speak for himself (if he chooses to show up again), but I do see this as a common pattern among conservatives. They live in the bubble, watching Fox, listening to Hannity and Glenn Beck on the radio, and they hear all this stuff that makes so much "sense!" I have no doubt the Baldwin comparison has been bandied about by conservative commentators, and their listeners eat it up thinking, "Yeah, libs, what about that, huh!?!" They think that liberals are just as hypocritical, just as mindless as they are when it comes to defending the indefensible. Then, when they actually talk to a liberal, the reality is completely different than what they expected. Liberals can be guilty of this too, they have a bubble they can retreat to as well, but it's not nearly as insular, all-encompassing, and pervasive. (I know, I'm supposed to say both sides are exactly the same, but...yeah...they aren't.)
