As the Right Defends "Duck Dynasty's" Phil Robertson...
It forgets its own pillorying of The Dixie Chicks.
And TV networks are not required by the First Amendment to give a platform to anyone. Paula Deen, meet Alec Baldwin.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
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You make an excellent point about TV and radio, James. Broadcasters and networks are only licensees of the public airwaves--the PUBLIC airwaves. The kind of white trash talking Robertson does not serve the common good, although when you apply that standard, the whole of TV should probably be shut down.
hey, why should their misunderstanding be limited to the Second Amendment?
Not just the Dixie Chicks...
Martin Bashir as well, even though not technically 'fired,' should have been deserving of some support from the right, even if he said something Palin fans found offensive. (That's the whole point, right?)
Or my favorite example of this sort of hypocrisy is Phil Donahue. He was fired from MSNBC just before the Iraq War invasion, even though he literally had the #1 top rated show on the network-- higher than Chris Matthews. Why didn't the right wing rally around Donahue's right to say what he wanted to say?
"Our rules don't apply to us."
"Only WE can be the ones persecuted and victimized by insensitivity."
The true 21st Century GOP mottos. Whiners.
Westborough Baptist Church stands with Phil Robertson. Nuff said.
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