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Onion: Nation's Wealthy Cruelly Deprived of True Meaning of Christmas

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A Mom Anon12/19/2013 4:27:39 am PST

re: #213 Justanotherhuman

You know, initially, I liked this show. But it wore thin quickly. I found it sad that Phil Robertson could not at all seem to relate to his little granddaughters when left to hang out with them for an afternoon. He wouldn’t play tea party or dress up with them, he HAD to make them go out and “get dirty” and do “boy things”. Uncle Si on the other hand embraced the whole little girl thing right down to a feather boa and nail polish. There was another episode where one of the sons and his wife took their teenagers to the dentist for surgery and the whole thing was staged. No swelling afterwards, no post surgical bruising and they had the son still “loopy” from anesthesia hours later at the dinner table(where both teens were eating after having their wisdom teeth surgically removed). In other words, it’s mostly bullshit. I liked the idea of an extended family working together and mostly getting along and being a bit quirky, but as I said, it’s a bullshit image and they’re no less flawed than anyone else. Phil being a “man of god”(he’s also a preacher at a small church) was played way up too, turns out he’s not a saint, who would have guessed? (ha)

I’m all for an American Success Story. And Phil Robertson came from pretty much nothing to create a successful business. His sons then took that business and marketed the hell out of it. Good on them. But it’s become a fetish for way too many people who don’t realize those “poor” Robertsons are multi millionaires now. They could shutter the whole Duck Dynasty/Duck Commander/Buck Commander thing today and not suffer for a second.