“It turns out that a national controversy sparked by racist and homophobic remarks doesn’t necessarily result in a ratings boost for a television show. Many speculated that “Duck Dynasty,” A&E’s hit reality series about a family of swamp millionaires who made their fortune off duck calls, would draw even more viewers after one of the show’s stars, Phil Robertson, made headlines last month for railing against “homosexual offenders,” “Shintos” and “Islamists” in a wild interview with GQ…”.* John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) and Ben Mankiewicz (co-host of What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Tom Kludt / TPM: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-season-five-ratings-down
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My roommate is a HUGE liberal. Even more so than me, and he’s also a TYT subscriber and he donated for the studio fundraiser. He literally listens to TYT mostly every day for the past few years. His brother is gay and he’s very pro-gay. Anyways, my point is he first watched an episode of Duck Dynasty because of the controversy, just to see what it was about. Now he loves this show and for the past few weeks he’s been watching it religiously. And he got his girlfriend into it and she loves it too. He just bought some Duck Dynasty playing cards.