Backwoods Hillbilly Removed From Show About Backwoods Hillbillies For Being A Backwoods Hillbilly.

[molly bloom]

For a reality show? That's a bit rich. They are paying him to be himself.

Not appear on television ? I'm confident that even a 'backwoods hillbilly' will be aware of how to play up and play a part for television audiences. Oh, unless of course the family doesn't own a television....

[molly bloom]

I would have provided the citation

Proof you now know what 'to cite' means. You used to think that citing one of the English Acts of Settlement meant just repeating its title, and not the parts of the act supposedly supporting your ludicrous claims. But then you also kept repeating the phrase 'heir apparent' without understanding its meaning.

had I known you would be so retarded.

It's share the Valley Girl lexicon time ! When do Silly The Kid and Major Gung Ho want 'retarded' back ?

[molly bloom]

We've been through this before with Paula Deen. I'm reminded of gen-u-wine grade-a race huckster Jesse Jackson. How did Tawana Brawley advance the cause of racial harmony?

Or Pope Pius XII ? And it only took until 1965 for the Roman Catholic Church to reassess its traditional hostility towards Jews and Judaism- when it at last removed the charge of deicide from the Jews as a whole. Too late for the Holocaust, but better late than never. Of course it still said that the Jewish leadership at the time of Yeshua were responsible for his death- even though it was carried out by the Roman authorities and used a Roman method of execution.

[molly bloom]

the conservative victim complex is out in full force with this one

HELP I"M BEING REPRESSED

****ing jerkoffs

Remember the fuss over 'Piss Christ' ?

Piss Christ – a photograph that has attracted controversy for more than two decades – has gone on display in New York, at an exhibition which surveys 25 years of the artist Andres Serrano's work.

In 1989, the 60x40in red and yellow photograph of a crucifix plunged into a vat of Serrano's urine ignited a congressional debate on US public arts funding; in France last year, it was physically attacked. In midtown Manhattan on Thursday night, a small group of Catholics opposed to the work gathered outside the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery, where the exhibition opened.

"At the time I made Piss Christ, I wasn't trying to get anything across," Serrano told the Guardian. "In hindsight, I'd say Piss Christ is a reflection of my work, not only as an artist, but as a Christian."

Some Christians find the work deeply offensive. Anger towards the photograph hit a pinnacle on Palm Sunday 2011 when French Catholic fundamentalists attacked and destroyed the photograph with hammers. Serrano's photograph of a meditating nun was also damaged in the attack.

"The thing about the crucifix itself is that we treat it almost like a fashion accessory. When you see it, you're not horrified by it at all, but what it represents is the crucifixion of a man," Serrano told the Guardian. "And for Christ to have been crucified and laid on the cross for three days where he not only bled to death, he shat himself and he peed himself to death.

"So if Piss Christ upsets you, maybe it's a good thing to think about what happened on the cross."

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/28/andres-serrano-piss-christ-new-york

That whole crucifixion thing- it's just too icky :

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

I mean, who wants to think about that sort of nastiness when you're contemplating a photograph of a representation of a man nailed by his hands and feet to a wooden support, wearing a mass of thorns shoved onto his head, having suffered scourging beforehand ? It's much easier to be offended by the liquid the representational art was suspended in.

[DinoDoc]

This thread is downright hilarious. The same people who not long ago were declaring that business should be able to hire/serve any customers it wanted, are now up in arms at a business doing basically exactly that.

A&E is perfectly within their rights to fire the guy for something that should have been entirely predictable about his belief system. It just seems like a ridiculous exercise in them cutting off their own nose to spite their face. The show is wildly popular and a cash machine. Firing/suspending their patriarch puts the show at risk at least on that network.

[snrjefe]

Hearst Magazines head used to run GQ. Hearst corp owns A&E.

Clinton spent a total of 10 years at GQ magazine, including six years as publisher—at the time, the company's youngest publisher. He delivered the three most profitable years in the magazine's history up to that time, and oversaw the launch of GQ in the U.K. and Japan.

And then there's this: http://www.hearst.com/press-room/pr-239-20020401.html
There's an entire article, but the lead-in should suffice:
HEARST MAGAZINES, LINCOLN, AND A&E NETWORKS ANNOUNCE MULTIMEDIA PROMOTIONAL PARTNERSHIP
Program to Span Magazines, Television, Internet, Special Events and Direct Mail

Well played indeed...

[Imran Siddiqui]

a business practice can be both legal and deserving of criticism

and the freedom of speech can be restricted by people outside of government, like a private employer in this case

If you are speaking of simply a freedom to say whatever you want, yes that can be "restricted" by those people using their own freedom to say whatever they want (and to freely associate with you). Though most people don't think that's a horrible thing in general.

[pchang]

Now that Sarah Palin has jumped in on this, I'm sure everything will be fixed in short order.

[Sava]

Also, I love how this cracker piece of shit is hiding behind religion for the anti-gay bigotry... but what about the racism?

I am glad the Republicans are defending this twit. Please.... PLEASE.... keep doing it. I love watching you guys lose Presidential elections.

[Lorizael]

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Republicans have lost every single presidential election held in the last five years.

[pchang]

You could stretch it to 8.....

[Kidlicious]

AE sucks, ruining a decent show. TV sucks.

[Lorizael]

You could stretch it to 8.....

I'm only trying to be mildly intellectually dishonest.

[Felch]

Or Pope Pius XII ? And it only took until 1965 for the Roman Catholic Church to reassess its traditional hostility towards Jews and Judaism- when it at last removed the charge of deicide from the Jews as a whole. Too late for the Holocaust, but better late than never. Of course it still said that the Jewish leadership at the time of Yeshua were responsible for his death- even though it was carried out by the Roman authorities and used a Roman method of execution.

Who cares about fifty years ago? Most of us weren't alive back then. Condemning people for things that happened decades ago is almost as retarded as heaping praise on the Chinese for centuries old accomplishments.

Idiots like you, stuck thinking in terms of tit-for-tat historical bull****, are the reason why ethnic strife and sectarian violence persist. The past can't be changed, but the future is still up for grabs.

[Sava]

Who cares about fifty years ago? Most of us weren't alive back then. Condemning people for things that happened decades ago is almost as retarded as heaping praise on the Chinese for centuries old accomplishments.

Idiots like you, stuck thinking in terms of tit-for-tat historical bull****, are the reason why ethnic strife and sectarian violence persist. The past can't be changed, but the future is still up for grabs.

I agree. We should give the Nazis a break. I mean, the Holocaust? Pffft... that was sooooo long ago.