Cracker Barrel apologizes, puts all Duck Dynasty products back on shelves.
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The question remains, did GLAAD put them up to this secondary boycott. The chief executive of Cracker Barrel needs to be asked tht question.
If they were acting at the urging of GLAAD, the chief executive should be canned.
Cracker Barrel betrayed EVERYONE: conservatives, Christians, straights, and country people, to find favor with a tiny minority that never eats there anyhow.
One wonders if a business with such poor judgement, can actually cook a meal.
GLADD and the rest of the slacktivists absolutely were behind the boycott. CB’s initial posting in regards to dropping the Ducks cited “all of the letters” they got… They got a whole lot more swinging them back…
“…with a tiny minority that never eats there anyhow.”
You know, that was my first thought when I heard about the boycott. Cracker Barrel always branded themselves (it seems to me) as a kind of Norman Rockwell-esque, middle-America, countrified kinda place; can’t really imagine that they had a lot of urban hipsters/coastal-types buying their nitrate-laden sausages.
The worm has turned.
Isn’t ‘cracker’ racist? /
;~)
All kidding aside seems like a genuine apology.
Looks like they quickly figured out which side butters their bread.
So. Sick. Of. Gay. Everything.
ldd wrote:
“All kidding aside seems like a genuine apology.
Looks like they quickly figured out which side butters their bread.”
Reversing their true feelings based on money, and not on their values, is not ANY apology, let alone a genuine one.
This was a business miscalculation of such magnitude, that I’m not convinced this restaurant chain can tell the maggots from the rice pudding.
We are no longer a society with values, ethics or reason guiding our actions.
Fear is the only driver.
Be very very frightened.
If you want.
I ate at a Cracker Barrel this evening, in Casa Grande, AZ, specifically to see if they had removed Duck Dynasty or Duck Commander items from display in their stores. I am happy to say both were well-represented, and the food I had was OK. Not stellar, but OK. Meat loaf was a little on the cool side; other than that, food was very good. And the service was super good.
And items with Phil Robertson’s likeness were prominent among the the DD and DC stuff on the shelves, so it’d not like he was cleansed from the merchandising.
Can’t say I disagree with you, perhaps I was being overly charitable considering the season. I’m under no illusion that this wasn’t solely based on the financial bottom line, hence my last statement. Guess we’ll see how this shakes out for them in the end.
Like countless other instances, this latest episode with the folks on that duck show is why I always laugh when the retarded Yanks brag about their awesomely awesome “free speech” and their First Amendment.
Laws don’t matter, when you have an army of people conspiring to entrap you and destroy your livelihood and cast you out from society when you say something they don’t like. The retarded Yanks invented political correctness and like much of the garbage they churn out, they foisted it upon the rest of the world, being one of their very few exports currently.
Nowhere else on the developed world is speech more restricted than in the United States. Yes, in Canada we have a group of Yankee wannabe media types that are there to manufacture the outrageous outrage when a public figure gives a personal opinion they don’t like. But the fabricated outrage fails to take hold in the Canadian general public and no-one pays attention to it except for the same media losers. On the contrary, in the United States you have an army of media hacks dedicated to approaching unsuspecting people and baiting them. In addition, the general public in Yankee-land falls hook, line and sinker for the fabricated outrage, because rank and file Americans are more ignorant in general and also because their character has a penchant for sanctimonious histrionics.
Not much of an anti-American bigot, are you Daniel?
lived in Michigan for four years, relatives in the mid-west states. canadian by birth and living here for 60 years. the Yankees are poorly educated, no matter how high the degree, very parochial outlook on life. do not have a great ability so far to see behind the story to determine what is really going on. too hedonistic and material to worry about anyone else if it means they must do something outside their normal self-centered life. hopefully they are waking up to how bad their once great country has become and will take it back from the immoral, anti-democratic, totalitarian hordes currently running it.
cc: Daniel hates Red Tories
Holy mackerel, you guys reading from The Council of Canadians prayer book?
Pushback is a bitch and the silent majority has had enough.
FYI Duck Dynasty merchandise money goes to A&E. Duck Commander stuff goes to the Robertson family.
Be guided accordingly.
“Nowhere else on the developed world is speech more restricted than in the United States.”
I respectfully disagree Daniel, particularly with your subsequent statement that we’re freer to voice non-PC opinions in Canada. I think we’re just more reflexively self-censoring – we understand the “rules” — and that this national trait obviates much of the potential/possibility of the sort of backlash we’ve send in the Phil Robertson case. But if some guy from Saskatchewan who had a nationally famous show said what Phil Robertson said, verbatim, he, and his network, and any sponsors, would be in the same kind of trouble or worse.
Americans are more likely to push the boundaries in ways both good and bad, IMO. On the good side, I can’t imagine that a show South Park – think of the “Wheel of Fortune” episode – would/could ever be produced in Canada without various grievance groups putting a stop to it.
And when it comes to completely non-PC humour, we don’t really have people like Sarah Silverman or the execrable Sandra Bernhard up here, nor any newspaper columnists as un-PC as P.J. O’Rourke can be, for example, and we likely wouldn’t see a Canadian singing star on a Canadian music awards show doing what Miley Cyrus did at the VMA’s.
PS I hate Red Tories too.
🙂
The question remains, did GLAAD put them up to this secondary boycott. The chief executive of Cracker Barrel needs to be asked tht question.
If they were acting at the urging of GLAAD, the chief executive should be canned.
Cracker Barrel betrayed EVERYONE: conservatives, Christians, straights, and country people, to find favor with a tiny minority that never eats there anyhow.
One wonders if a business with such poor judgement, can actually cook a meal.
GLADD and the rest of the slacktivists absolutely were behind the boycott. CB’s initial posting in regards to dropping the Ducks cited “all of the letters” they got… They got a whole lot more swinging them back…
“…with a tiny minority that never eats there anyhow.”
You know, that was my first thought when I heard about the boycott. Cracker Barrel always branded themselves (it seems to me) as a kind of Norman Rockwell-esque, middle-America, countrified kinda place; can’t really imagine that they had a lot of urban hipsters/coastal-types buying their nitrate-laden sausages.
The worm has turned.
Isn’t ‘cracker’ racist? /
;~)
All kidding aside seems like a genuine apology.
Looks like they quickly figured out which side butters their bread.
So. Sick. Of. Gay. Everything.
ldd wrote:
“All kidding aside seems like a genuine apology.
Looks like they quickly figured out which side butters their bread.”
Reversing their true feelings based on money, and not on their values, is not ANY apology, let alone a genuine one.
This was a business miscalculation of such magnitude, that I’m not convinced this restaurant chain can tell the maggots from the rice pudding.
We are no longer a society with values, ethics or reason guiding our actions.
Fear is the only driver.
Be very very frightened.
If you want.
I ate at a Cracker Barrel this evening, in Casa Grande, AZ, specifically to see if they had removed Duck Dynasty or Duck Commander items from display in their stores. I am happy to say both were well-represented, and the food I had was OK. Not stellar, but OK. Meat loaf was a little on the cool side; other than that, food was very good. And the service was super good.
And items with Phil Robertson’s likeness were prominent among the the DD and DC stuff on the shelves, so it’d not like he was cleansed from the merchandising.
Can’t say I disagree with you, perhaps I was being overly charitable considering the season. I’m under no illusion that this wasn’t solely based on the financial bottom line, hence my last statement. Guess we’ll see how this shakes out for them in the end.
Like countless other instances, this latest episode with the folks on that duck show is why I always laugh when the retarded Yanks brag about their awesomely awesome “free speech” and their First Amendment.
Laws don’t matter, when you have an army of people conspiring to entrap you and destroy your livelihood and cast you out from society when you say something they don’t like. The retarded Yanks invented political correctness and like much of the garbage they churn out, they foisted it upon the rest of the world, being one of their very few exports currently.
Nowhere else on the developed world is speech more restricted than in the United States. Yes, in Canada we have a group of Yankee wannabe media types that are there to manufacture the outrageous outrage when a public figure gives a personal opinion they don’t like. But the fabricated outrage fails to take hold in the Canadian general public and no-one pays attention to it except for the same media losers. On the contrary, in the United States you have an army of media hacks dedicated to approaching unsuspecting people and baiting them. In addition, the general public in Yankee-land falls hook, line and sinker for the fabricated outrage, because rank and file Americans are more ignorant in general and also because their character has a penchant for sanctimonious histrionics.
Not much of an anti-American bigot, are you Daniel?
lived in Michigan for four years, relatives in the mid-west states. canadian by birth and living here for 60 years. the Yankees are poorly educated, no matter how high the degree, very parochial outlook on life. do not have a great ability so far to see behind the story to determine what is really going on. too hedonistic and material to worry about anyone else if it means they must do something outside their normal self-centered life. hopefully they are waking up to how bad their once great country has become and will take it back from the immoral, anti-democratic, totalitarian hordes currently running it.
cc: Daniel hates Red Tories
Holy mackerel, you guys reading from The Council of Canadians prayer book?
Pushback is a bitch and the silent majority has had enough.
FYI Duck Dynasty merchandise money goes to A&E. Duck Commander stuff goes to the Robertson family.
Be guided accordingly.
I respectfully disagree Daniel, particularly with your subsequent statement that we’re freer to voice non-PC opinions in Canada. I think we’re just more reflexively self-censoring – we understand the “rules” — and that this national trait obviates much of the potential/possibility of the sort of backlash we’ve send in the Phil Robertson case. But if some guy from Saskatchewan who had a nationally famous show said what Phil Robertson said, verbatim, he, and his network, and any sponsors, would be in the same kind of trouble or worse.
Americans are more likely to push the boundaries in ways both good and bad, IMO. On the good side, I can’t imagine that a show South Park – think of the “Wheel of Fortune” episode – would/could ever be produced in Canada without various grievance groups putting a stop to it.
And when it comes to completely non-PC humour, we don’t really have people like Sarah Silverman or the execrable Sandra Bernhard up here, nor any newspaper columnists as un-PC as P.J. O’Rourke can be, for example, and we likely wouldn’t see a Canadian singing star on a Canadian music awards show doing what Miley Cyrus did at the VMA’s.
PS I hate Red Tories too.
🙂
This might be a plausible explanation for the company’s unfortunate decision:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2010/02/10/cracker-barrel-makes-great-strides-its-now-only-the-third-worst-place-for-gays-to-work
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2006/02/cracker-barrel-sued-discrimination-again
Cheers