Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson joined Fox News to do a little campaigning for Senator Ted Cruz. But the racist, homophobic Robertson spent at least as much time smearing President Obama as talking up Cruz.
Fox host Jenna Lee treated "surprise guest" Robertson like a rock star. She praised him for having “left the comforts of Louisiana” to go to Iowa. “Why are you there?” she asked, as if she didn’t already know.
Robertson said he and his southern compatriots have been “looking for a man that’s comparable to either George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe or John Quincy Adams.”
“The guy we came up with is the closest we can find, is one Ted Cruz, out of Texas over there,” he concluded.
“No kidding!” Lee said, as if she were delighted to hear this. She never asked Robertson to explain just how Cruz is so comparable to our founding fathers.
The only reason he offered was, “I researched the list of names I just gave you and after researching them, several things became crystal clear. Number one is, they were all godly, I mean very godly.” We never got to number two.
“Since we’re in such a spiritual crisis and the people we’re seeing running Washington is a result of the spiritual crisis,” Robertson said, “We’re at our rope’s end. We’ve tied a knot in it and we’re hanging on. See what I’m saying?”
Lee replied enthusiastically, “We’re picking up what you’re saying for sure!”
Then she pressed for more Cruz cheering. “Was there a moment that you had when you were talking to Ted Cruz or was there an issue that came up when the light bulb went off for you and you said ‘OK, this is the guy I’m going to get behind?’” Lee asked.
It was the godliness that the old bigot loved. “I‘ve never run upon a true conservative who was not a godly man or at least a God-conscious man," Robertson told her. "And by the same token, I’ve never run up on a godly man who wasn’t a true conservative.” However, Robertson said, he has “run up on a fair-sized throng of individuals who’ve claimed to be both… but they lied. Are you with me here?”
“Definitely!” Lee all but gushed.
“So, when I ran up on this Cruz, I just researched his history, I said, ‘That guy is a solid constitutionalist,' which I am,” Robertson said. He cited James Madison as having said that the Constitution was written for “a religious and moral people” and that “it is wholly inadequate for any other.” He added, “Well, we’ve had these ‘any others’ in there, quite a string of them, in the last eight years.’”
No challenge from Lee, not even a question about just what is so godly about Cruz.
Then Robertson began suggesting Obama is both anti-American and anti-God – while holding himself up as some kind of beacon of Christian goodwill:
ROBERTSON: You see a guy like Barack Obama – I hate no man and I don’t dislike anyone that I know of – but I’m just looking at the facts. He didn’t swear that oath to protect and defend the Constitution. He studied the Constitution before he was finally elected president to circumvent it. That’s why he studied it. He didn’t study it to protect and uphold it.
Remember, this is the guy who got suspended from his TV show for, in addition to demonizing gays, saying about African Americans during Jim Crow, “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.”
Again, there was no challenge from Lee. Not even a request for evidence behind such a serious accusation. She was too busy admiring Robertson's model citizenship. “It says something, Phil, when you – you know, it’s one thing to support somebody, it’s another thing to get off of your couch to get on a plane to another state to hit the road for them, and hit the campaign trail. So it’s great to have you join us and to hear the passion behind one of the reasons why, or a few of the reasons why, you’re supporting Ted Cruz. …We loved hearing from you today.”
Watch it below, from the January 30 America’s Election HQ.
“The guy we came up with is the closest we can find, is one Ted Cruz, out of Texas over there,” he concluded.
The closest you could find to Washington, The Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, or Monroe, was . . . a Canadian-born Cuban?
Put your glasses back on, Phil . . .
ROBERTSON: I’m just looking at the facts. He didn’t swear that oath to protect and defend the Constitution. He studied the Constitution before he was finally elected president to circumvent it.
Um, Phil — he actually DID swear the oath to protect and defend the Constitution TWICE. I know. I saw it, as did millions of other people around the world.
Again, Phil, put your glasses back on . . .
BTW, President Obama studied the constitution before he was elected for two reasons: 1) law school students, as he was at the time, are required to, and 2) studying it made him better able to teach constitutional law for 12 years.
Just as your M.Ed. from Louisiana Tech makes you better able to . . . star on a reality TV show . . .
@ Bob Roberts: “Are there really people out there in this great, big country of ours that actually give a s—t about what this reality show actor has to say about politics? Or is it just Faux hosts?”
You’re right, Bob — but Donald Trump isn’t the subject here. :)
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