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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 22, 2013, 02:17:20 am

Title: EXCLUSIVE - 'Hung out to dry': Duck Dynasty star and family hit out at A&E for letting his controversial interview go public and for suspending him for homophobic comments
Post by: mystery-ak on December 22, 2013, 02:17:20 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527430/Hung-dry-Duck-Dynasty-star-family-lash-A-E-making-controversial-interview-public-suspending-homophobic-comments.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527430/Hung-dry-Duck-Dynasty-star-family-lash-A-E-making-controversial-interview-public-suspending-homophobic-comments.html)

EXCLUSIVE - 'Hung out to dry': Duck Dynasty star and family hit out at A&E for letting his controversial interview go public and for suspending him for homophobic comments

    Phil Roberston and his family believe that A & E are discriminating against them for their deeply seated 'Christian beliefs'
    ‘You have to ask yourself, why this interview happened and why it ever became public,' said a source close to the family
    Despite the star's suspension, the Robertson family has a merchandise empire that is estimated by Forbes to be worth about $400million - and their deal with Walmart makes up around half of this

By Will Payne

PUBLISHED: 02:43 EST, 21 December 2013 | UPDATED: 10:49 EST, 21 December 2013

Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson and his family believe they have been ‘hung out to dry’ by TV network A&E after he was suspended for homophobic comments made in a magazine interview, MailOnline can reveal.

Sources within the close-knit Louisiana clan say they are convinced A&E are manipulating the controversial situation to bring them – and particularly Robertson – back into line after Television executives grew tired of the family pushing their deeply-held, Christian beliefs.

They also think the network could have done something to stop the controversial GQ article being made public, because an A&E representative was present during the interview with patriarch, Roberston, 67.

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Title: Re: EXCLUSIVE - 'Hung out to dry': Duck Dynasty star and family hit out at A&E for letting his controversial interview go public and for suspending him for homophobic comments
Post by: sinkspur on December 22, 2013, 02:26:06 am

Oh come on!!  So Robertson is unable to say "no" to GQ?  He's unable to contain his comments? 

And how is A&E supposed to stop the interview from becoming public?  It's a friggin' MAGAZINE that is going to PUBLISH the interview!!!

Robertson is getting railroaded, for sure, but let's not make him out to be some helpless victim.