This past week of Fox News outrageousness has been dominated by Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty. There were some outrageous comments on other subjects but I’m going to stick with one theme this time.
And the nominees are…
Mike Huckabee suggesting Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson is on the same gay-rights page as President Obama:
“When anyone says something that holds to the same position that Barack Obama held in 2008 when he, at the Saddleback Church with John McCain, made it very clear, that he opposed same sex marriage and he said he did so because he was a Christian and because of his biblical views. Well, if that position was OK in 2008, how come it isn’t OK in 2013 or 2014?”
Martha MacCallum: “A&E would fire Pope Francis based on their assessment of Phil Robertson.”
Sarah Palin, who revealed she didn’t think it necessary to find out what Robertson actually said in a GQ interview in order to take his side in the resulting controversy:
“I haven’t read the article. I don’t know exactly how he said it. But, Greta, what he was doing was in response to a question about a lifestyle that he disagrees with and yet he has said over and over again he doesn’t hate the person engaging in a lifestyle he disagrees with but he, in response, he was quoting the gospel. So people who are so insulted and offended by what he said evidently are offended by what he was quoting in the gospel. …So that’s another interesting aspect in all of this.”
Anna Kooiman: “(W)as (Robertson) really trying to attack the gay community or was he merely opening up about his faith and the bible?”
Mike Huckabee, characterizing Robertson’s comments:”(A) matter of his opinion based on scripture which is not really that off the wall of an opinion.”
Well, I REALLY hated Huckabee’s insistence that Robertson’s opinion on same sex marriage was the same as Obama’s, because he conveniently doesn’t mention that Obama changed his opinion on SSM in 2012, and I was planning to vote for him, but then I saw what Caribou Barbie had to say, and I that changed my mind. I’m pretty sure that if somebody said they didn’t read her (ghostwritten) book on the “War on Christmas” and still dumped all over it, she’d throw a major freaking fit, but goshdarnit, Princess Palin doesn’t have to read anything to know where she stands on the subject.
Kudos for all of you here who can sit through a VanSuckUp interview with Sister Sarah. What I wouldn’t give to see her just once question Caribou Barbie about something she said or asked a follow-up question.
Princess Sarah of Alaska is dumb as a box of rocks. We bet a 5th grader is smarter than this aging beauty queen.
We are surprised failed radio host Hucky still has a show on Fox “News.” Given the changes coming up at this fraudulent “news” outlet, it could be short-lived.
Now, you’d think that a company interested in such content and values would be above allowing one of its subsidiaries to post a poll with such a blatant lie. (I mean, okay, the Commandment is “Thou shalt not bear false witness” but most religious views take that to mean the same as “thou shalt not lie.” So much for “Christian” content, right?)
But I didn’t bother voting, mainly because I don’t want Townhall’s garbage piling up in my inbox and also because they didn’t allow for additional comments.
I suppose whatever loony group paid for the ad hasn’t had time to realize that Robertson was never fired and, more importantly, has had his “suspension” relieved (and he’ll be quacking away again in a couple of weeks). I think I’m going to see what happens when I click the ad. Maybe I’ll get to leave some sort of comment there.
Bwahaha!