A&E Restores Phil Robertson to Duck Dynasty: As Expected, Liberal Groups Calling for A&E to Require “Rehabilitation” of Phil By Meeting With Them

A&E caved in from public pressure and Phil Robertson has been restored to Duck Dynasty. As predicted, liberal and civil rights groups are calling for A&E to require Phil to go through “rehabilitation” to prove that A&E still supports their various causes.

Will be interesting to see if A&E will insist on it, or if Phil is even willing to do so.   There was online speculation that if Phil did agree to it, if A&E would film it and turn such a meeting or series of meetings into episodes.  I highly doubt it.

President and Members of Congress Who Voted for Obamacare Should Face Impeachment or Recall: Their Ill-Conceived Actions in NOT READING THE BILL Before Voting “YES” Have Brought Serious Harm to Four Million Americans With Tens of Millions More Scheduled to Join Them Next Year

President Obama and every member of Congress who voted “yes” on the Affordable Care Act should face impeachment or recall proceedings for their serious lapse of judgment when they chose not to READ THE BILL before voting “YES” on it. 

It’s done nothing but bring serious financial harm to roughly four million Americans, with tens of millions more at risk of having their health insurance plans cancelled in 2014.

President Obama obviously didn’t read the bill either since he signed it into law and uttered statements like “If you like your plan, you can keep it.”   All that’s missing is the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner.

Everything that has happened so far was spelled out in great detail in the text of the Affordable Care Act.   If members were complaining that they didn’t have time to read it themselves, they should have read it right in the chamber, like they read the Constitution in the House of Representatives, and REQUIRED members of Congress to be there to listen to it be read.

Having some insurance is better than having no insurance at all.   Obamacare has stripped millions of their health insurance coverage, and the rollout of their replacement insurance has been an unmitigated disaster.  And millions more face having their insurance cancelled as spelled out in the Affordable Care Act next year.  Those who have been able to sign up aren’t sure if they’re covered or not.

Voting ‘yes’ on a bill without reading it should be considered a high crime and should be considered an impeachable offense.  It’s the height of irresponsible Congressional and Presidential conduct that must be stopped. 

No more voting on bills that they haven’t read!  If they don’t care to read the bills before voting on them, I have a solution: RESIGN!

A&E Is Punishing Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty for Quoting Verses of the Bible? Highly Ridiculous, Considering They’ve Made Religion an Integral Part of the Duck Dynasty Show

First, here’s the profanity-filled GQ article that got Phil Robertson into trouble with A&E.  I couldn’t help but notice that the profanity was all on the part of the author of the article, not from Phil.

Next, here’s the Corinthians quotation in as many Bible versions as you want it.  

I find the A&E position highly dubious.  They chose to make religion part of THEIR Duck Dynasty series.  Why are they punishing Phil for simply quoting verses from the Bible, as he does on the show?  If they didn’t want the family talking about religion on the show, they could have easily edited the religious aspects of the show out as they film more stuff than they actually use in the episodes.  This is totally on A&E. 

And their most bankable (former) personality has nothing to lose in this controversy.  He’s rich, because A&E helped to make him that way.

The First Amendment has nothing to do with this controversy.  A&E isn’t the government, and the First Amendment is about the government not infringing on freedom of speech (among other things).  This is about secularists attacking religion.  Again. 

Someone I know recently told me that the anti-Christ is walking in our very midst, and the anti-Christ isn’t a person.  It’s secularism, and A&E has fallen before it and is an active accomplice in slapping religious adherents around. 

A&E probably wants Phil to meet with gay groups to “rehabilitate” him as other networks have done with other celebrities who have gone off the reservation and spoken their minds.  They probably want him to retract his statements, but to do so would mean he’d be withdrawing direct quotes from the Bible.

I don’t see this happening…he’ll happily walk away from the TV show to be rid of them all, and not have to put up with the political correctness movement as spelled out in his A&E contract with their so-called “moral clauses.”  The Robertsons had already restricted A&E to four filming days a week, so they can have more personal time and not have the cameras in their faces constantly.

Phil himself said in the interview that he knew the end of the Duck Dynasty series was 4-5 years away at most, and that shows come and go.  They’ve been preparing for the end of the show’s run, so if it ends sooner, I doubt it will affect their other business ventures.  Their Duck Commander company is a multi-million dollar company, and will continue to be so after A&E ends Duck Dynasty.

If A&E doesn’t want their stars giving interviews to media outlets like GQ, that should be part of their contracts.  Asking someone like Phil a question like “What is a sin in your view?” is about as loaded a question as you can get.  Ambush journalism at it’s best and worst.

Cracker Barrel is a joke too.  They pulled Duck Dynasty merchandise from their shelves and then put them back up less than twelve hours later after they started feeling the national backlash that liberal outlets are also feeling after they piled onto the bandwagon. 

The question is not what Phil Robertson is going to do next…it’s going to be what will A&E do next to save face?  Cracker Barrel has egg in it’s face already.   I think A&E bit off more than it can chew.