Are you a “Duck Dynasty” American or a “Downton Abbey” American?
The fans of these two TV family sagas may live in parallel worlds and the divide is deeper than who wears camo and who wears tweeds, populist A&E or elitist PBS.
One fan group follows Phil Robertson, bearded patriarch of duck-call-dynasty on the rural reality show. Phil managed to make a beautiful Bible ugly by crude, judgmental remarks in “GQ” about gay sex.
He’s strongly supported by those evangelicals who can overlook his accompanying bizarre remarks on race in the same interview. This weekend his fans are cheering the late Friday news that A&E has lifted its suspension of Phil – not even two weeks long – to resume filming the show with him this spring. The network says the show must go on because “it resonates with a large audience because it is a show about family … a family that America has come to love.”
In Twittertalk that’s #ratings.
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