is
gone. Sport analysts and other NFL teams did not think he was good enough as a
pro quarterback but he was a very popular player. His overt Christianity was offensive
and annoying to the liberal PC police.
We
are living in the “Great Diversion” era, one unresolved real or manufactured
crisis after another and a disastrous economy, yet an NBA player’s sexual
orientation, which should be nobody’s business, demands accolades and public
speeches.
The
word “courage,” which MSM uses loosely to describe such public disclosure, has
lost its meaning entirely. Courage is fighting in battle when everyone else
retreats, saving another human being from peril when the rest are cowards, and sacrificing
heroically and bravely to the betterment of mankind.
No
wonder people are turning away from the ugly and terrible reality to the “pane
et circenses” (bread and circuses) reality TV, not just any reality TV, but
Duck Dynasty.
Duck
Dynasty is the most popular reality show on A&E, the formerly artsy elitist
channel which must irritate and drive to distraction the New York opera crowd.
Why do people watch and love Duck Dynasty? What is it that attracts people to
the reality show and its Louisiana cast of beautiful real women and their bearded
husbands who make duck calls for a living?
Phil
Robertson, the patriarch of the clan, gave up his promising football career to
make duck calls for hunters. The show ends each time with a prayer around the dinner
table of extended family and friends. It is something America longs for, a
return to family values and Christianity.
The
Robertsons love and care for their family, believe in God and country, hunt,
fish, and teach their grandchildren to carry, use, and handle guns responsibly.
Through comedic situations, they emphasize the value of work and respect for
elders. Most of them, with the exception of Willie, the CEO, live, dress, and
eat simply in spite of their vast fortune.
The
sage brother Jase and the Jack-of-all trades Vietnam War vet uncle Si delivers
witty one-liners while sipping his ever present glass of iced tea, a southern
tradition.
Miss
Kay, the matriarch of the clan, is the sweet and doting mother, wife,
mother-in-law, and grandma, who uses humor and southern wit to teach her teenage
grandchildren how to handle dating and abstinence from sex. This must irritate liberals
who encourage sex, out of wedlock pregnancies, co-habitation, and abortion.
Americans
love the Robertsons because they long for a return to family tradition,
respect, and interaction with meaningful, clean language, and dialog. The back
to nature, outdoorsy life is appealing to many Americans who love the simple,
witty ways of the Robertsons. The innocence of their daily lives is lost in our
troubled country.
The
clan is made up of ordinary Americans, who, in spite of their wealth, have not
changed their family values, traditions, and faith, all deeply rooted in the American
pioneer spirit and exceptionalism.
One
episode pokes fun at fancy coffee shops patronized by liberals who drink strange
and expensive concoctions of the caffeinated brew. Another makes fun of the
southern love of donuts. Jase runs into trouble with the communistic Home
Owners Association staffed by community volunteers who like to control other
people’s lives. Jase had chickens in his yard and burned leaves on his property.
He was told that he signed a contract in order to live in that neighborhood and
thus had to abide by the rules the HOA saw fit.
Avid
hunters, camouflage wearing, gun toting, blowing up beaver dams on their
property, eating squirrels, frogs, and other critters, the Robertson men must
have inflamed PETA and animal rights activists.
Duck
Dynasty is a show about southern culture, about family, about values unaffected
by wealth earned through entrepreneurship and hard work, a show about what
liberals call “rednecks with money” who live normal lives. It is a show about American
nostalgia for a time and innocence lost.
The
Robertsons embody the myth of what America used to be, the America in which the
family did not fight, did not use profanity, mom and dad did not divorce, people
respected each other and their elders, traditional marriage was important in raising
kids into healthy adults, and children did not move far away from their roots,
values, and from mom and dad.
Severing ties from family and God has fundamentally changed our formerly cohesive society. The massive dependency on government welfare as the daddy of all out of wedlock newborns further eroded the American family. The Planned Parenthood abortion mill, the “social justice” indoctrination in school, the lack of morality, glamorizing the drug infested Hollywood lifestyle, and attacks on the Christian faith exacerbated the damage done to traditional marriage and family.
We
should be celebrating the Robertsons and their lifestyle. It is what made
America great. Their family values are shared by the core majority of our
country. If we are to succeed, we have to return to those healthy principles
and celebrate Tebow for his character.
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