In a move that should come as no surprise to anyone, Sarah Palin, America's First President of Facebook™ and favorite punch-line of how-stupid-was-it jokes, has weighed in on the Duck Dynasty situation and declared war with the following Tweet of Great Defiance!
Free speech is endangered species; those "intolerants" hatin' & taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion take on us all
Uh-oh, we've done it now. We're gonna have to take on Sarah Palin and her entire Facebook army!
(Please oh please let it be in the form of a spelling contest, please please please)
This is a pretty well-informed crowd here, but just in case you've been napping I'll fill you in on a couple things after the illustration of what all of Palin's typical thought-balloons would look like if the world were a comic book (fluffy, small, and empty).
Backstory #1: Duck Dynasty's an embarrassing reality show about a family of rustic stereotypes who are really good at making fart noises. Or maybe they're duck calls, hell if I know. They all have beards that would make Osama Bin Ladin proud, but make no mistake: they're part of the American Taliban. Anyway, their leader and general nobody-should-really-give-a-damn-what-this-guy-thinks-about-anything-anyway clod Phil "a good nickname would be Pat" Robertson said some stupid shit about gays (and African-Americans too, what the hell) that I'm not going to repeat because, like I said, it's stupid, but you can read about it here or at many other places -- it's all over the web. Duck Dynasty fans who were happy to have found something to watch on the teevee box for the first time since Hee Haw got canceled have been rushing to the guy's defense. They've been trying to prove he's not hateful by posting things like:
...not realizing that they're making the opposite point by showing that their hero lumps homosexuals in with drunks and terrorists. It's like if I said, "I'm not judging Phil. Who am I to judge duck-call-manufacturers, child-molesters, or people-who-kick-puppies?" Not exactly fair, is it?
Anyhow, free speech worked like it's supposed to and this guy was allowed to say the stupid things he said - as is his right - and everybody was allowed to respond to what he said, and now he's suspended from the show and gone back to his gig with the Oak Ridge Boys or lurking in the corners of children's bedrooms to give them night terrors or whatever the hell he does, I don't really care. Point is, nobody "oppressed" this guy, nobody's censoring him or picking on him -- he just got consequences from his own actions, which is how the world works.
Anyway, that's one backstory covered.
Backstory # 2 Now the Sarah Palin deal. Remember about a week or so back, an MSNBC reporter, Martin Bashir, said some admittedly-pretty-vile stuff about Sarah Palin and ended up resigning? That was also all over the web and in several popular diaries on this very site. Bashir apologized and resigned. Palin's response to that was pretty odd --
But I just hope that unprovoked attacks like that don’t result in people being hesitant to jump in the arena anyway. To get out and there and serve the public or start a business.
Why it would even occur to her to bring starting a business into this is a little strange. Unless you were some weirdo wanting to start a crap-in-Sarah-Palin's-mouth booth at the county fair, it's a pretty weird scenario that anyone would be discouraged from entrepreneurship because of this. "Gee, I have an idea that'd make me wealthy, but... I dunno, some fella in the teevee called Sarah Palin some bad names, maybe I'm better off remaining in ignominy."
Anyway, with both backstories filled in, you do get why Palin's tweet is so hilarious, right?
Just in case, I'll repost it, with just the least lil' editorial edit:
Free speech is endangered species; those "intolerants" hatin' & taking on [Martin Bashir] for voicing personal opinion take on us all
Funny how that works...