How bad has it gotten for the GOP recently? It's gotten so bad that they can't get their own outrage, or understand the outrage of liberals, correctly, and Fox News is just as confused. It really is the blind leading the blind.
The GOP has once again taken, with the Duck Dynasty controversy, the wrong track, not only in the liberal's outrage but their own. The GOP started by ripping A&E for suspending the patriarch of the family for anti-homosexual statements and for out-and-out misrepresenting blacks during the Jim Crow era in America. So, the GOP is now saying that company can't fire a person when that individual speaks in such a way? Well, that's really not what they meant. No, they meant that everyone has the right to speak their mind. Then, liberals asked where the outrage from the right was when Martin Bashir was fired for statements about Palin or when radio stations refused to play Dixie Chicks song after their lead singer spoke out about George W. Bush and the Iraq War if they believed that. So the GOP quickly changed their tactic and went after liberals, saying it wasn't right of liberals to get the Duck Dynasty clan father fired. But that's not what liberals did, but that didn't stop Fox News from ripping liberals apart and fomenting distrust and hatred of liberals among their followers. And this never-ending cycle continues to this day, with both the GOP and Fox News missing the original outrages of both themselves and liberals.
The GOP hasn't gotten much right recently, so I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone when they got the Duck Dynasty controversy wrong. But it is surprising that they can't even get their own outrage right.
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