Lame-ass reality shows centered around such trainwrecks-of-humanity - like the Duck nitwits - are contributing to this ultimate conclusion:

I guess being a 9/11 conspiracy theorist is scarier than racism.

i think people already are.

but hopefully it's due to people just never having any interest in their crap in the first place .

It turns out that they're really just a bunch of preppies pretending to be hicks. And, more and more people have been finding that out. I'm sure the homophobia has knocked off a bunch of their viewership, but people don't like phonies, either.

many of their viewers more than the anti-gay rants, sad to say.

I knew several people who were more progressive or at least liberal on social issues and they'd tell me how much they loved the show Those are the people I suspect abandoned it after Phil's bigoted interview. It was ok to laugh with and at the assbackwards rubes as long as they kept their bigoted views to themselves. Once that cat was out of the bag, kind of hard to like them if that's not your views as well.

I just do not understand the proliferation of "reality" shows about swamp/bayou/woods-living people. You'd think that they were interesting, or a huge swath of the population, given their representation on some of these cable networks. I'm not interested in watching barely literate and sickeningly ignorant people wrestle with wildlife, or whatever seems to serve as a pastime. Call me an elitist, if you wish. I'll wear that tag proudly rather than watching even ten seconds of this drivel.

It makes them feel better about their stupidity.

There is a plethora of these reality shows popping up monthly on different channels. I saw part of one where there are some inbreds sneaking around the Appalachia making moonshine and then My Redneck Vacation, My Redneck Wedding, My Redneck whatever, Hollywood Hillbillies etc, etc. And it seems to glamorize stupidity and rednecks

dumb asses bidding on a something, dumb asses ripping the shit out of the environment for gold,
dumb asses making, selling, and shooting guns, dumb asses in teams that have to cross a
river for their challenge, dumb asses having interpersonal problems fixing a car that has to
be done tomorrow, rich dumb asses buying their vacation home in the tropics, some dumb
ass always saying "that candy apple red paint really pops," dumb asses having to kill a cow
on a farm and making an entire show about it, and ......

I really think that the right wing is trying to dumb down America with their crap TV. The History
Channel used to have some really good shows on but not anymore.

Then there is the marketing on Duck Dynasty by Wal Mart selling trash for pure profit. I seldom if ever watch A&E, Discovery, History, especially SYFY with the ignorant trashy programing they now offer (wrestling).

a couple of years ago when they started going after this demographic/dynamic with gusto. The fact that these clowns (like the Honey Boo Boo clan) make upwards of $40K per episode when we have teachers who barely make $40K per year makes my blood pressure soar. Our priorities are so fucked up, I wonder if there's any genuine hope for civilized society to survive, and that's not hyperbole.

Hopefully with the fading of Duck Dynasty we'll see this craze go away or at least diminish.

It was novel and everyone was trying to jump on the bandwagon while it was hot. Eventually the saner parts of the population will tire of it. I think it's already happening.

Though there still is plenty of white trash teevee out there - Lizard Lick, Hard Core Pawn, Cops. I see these when flipping through channels, stop to watch and am amazed at the garbage and trash that is being made into tv programs.

And I'll give you credit for massive amounts of bravery or fortitude. I can't even stay on those channels long enough for the picture to fully resolve into something recognizable!

sometimes I just can't look away. Then I snap out of it, shake my head and keep flipping through the channels.

Dumbass Die-nasty is fake hicks acting stupid. There's no reality about it.

Mountain Men certainly has some drama added to it by producers, but as far as I know, the people are real.

Some of the shows are kind of like car wrecks. I honestly don't want to see the horrid results of a gruesome car wreck. I don't want see a dead body. But when I drive past a car wreck, I still look at it.

My TV example would be "The Surreal Life". That was a show where they put a bunch of has-been celebrities in a house, and had them live together for a while. I'm ashamed to say it, but if I was channel-surfing, and came across the show, I'd watch it. I felt dirty for doing it (that's why I never did it around witnesses), but I did. I've also watched episodes of 'Big Brother'....I didn't set out to watch them, but I watched them, even when I could have changed the channel.

I guess what I'm saying is: "Hi. My name is Captain Stern, and I've intentionally watched some shitty TV."

I tried to watch this show and could never understand the attraction of this show

of them being fake redneck characters. Die hards wouldn't go for that even if they agreed with the sentiments in question.

So they lose both ends of the spectrum.

GOOD

next step - STOP VOTING CONSERVATIVE

I'd also like to note that while 6.5 million is a high one for cable, no numbers that are falling are good numbers, it's about the trending downward, the death spiral, the migration to other points of interest. All quacked out.

Even with President Obama signing the repeal of DADT and supporting gay marriage, it's amazing how people just refuse to move forward.

Oh well....we'll move on without them!

Forward!

we'd have a horrible fight if he does - so he doesn't! He's very smart!

watch these.

Cement pond, Crawdads, Critters, Possum Day Parade, Fixings Jethro doing his "gosintas" 4 gosinta 4 equals 8. Sixth grade graduate.

the hillbillies. Never mean.

and I can't see why anyone could make it through a whole episode let along come back for more. Mind you I didn't watch more than maybe 8 or 9 minutes but it was enough for me to come to my opinion

Was curious to what all the hoopla was all about so last year decided to watch an episode. Could only take 5 minutes and promptly turned the channel.

Like others that have already stated, I think what started turning people away was not the old man's anti-gay comments but more to do with the before pictures and then the marry a 15 year old girl comment.

Too many trash endorsement products in Walmart and ANYONE will get sick of them and feel bloated.

They were going to blow it up with firecrackers. One of the dipshits was going on and on about wild honey and how much he loves it and then it gets in his beard and his wife gets to taste sweet, wild honey for weeks :gross:

With all the bee colony collapse and then recording a show about some dumbasses planning on killing a hive for a show and ratings was enough. Their stupidity infuriated me and that was the first and last time I watched.

that it was good clean family fun. I witnessed none of that in what I seen. All I seen was some dumbasses acting like dumbasses. I guess if someone likes dumbasses then it might be a good show but I don't care to. I'd rather watch water boil

I suppose because they wrapped it up in a nice prayer bow at the very end

I've not watched a complete episode so I had no idea they finish like that. LOL

It's kind of a rip-off of the structure of "my Name Is Earl," but that show didn't do the overt religious values crap AND was honest about it being satire.

homophobia. I think many people, unless a bit on the pathological side, get fed up with it all. Also, the show is absolutely moronic and IMO quite boring. In short, for many Americans, these guys are obsolete, but had a good run of it selling their duck call stuff, etc. which will no doubt continue. They had a good run of it with their Palin effect.

Shithead homophobes.

Fuck those bigoted, backwards assholes. And here's an appropriate sound effect:

Mean people suck.

bandwidth.

wishes he would have just kept his damn racist homophobic shit to himself?

And did he think going to the SOTU with whatever dipshit invited him would up his ratings?

Putin's calling..

I had a lot of my "I support Phil" friends say they weren't going to...

a) watch DD as long as A&E aired it and...

B) they were'nt buying DD merchandise anymore, only the Duck Commander stuff that the Robertsons own 100%....

I'd be interested to see if Phil's army of useful idiots carried through it

The whole Duck Dynasty story is a joke and why is it funny, because it's real! People really are that sick and stupid!

The other 50% are still morons.

is making you watch it ,Jack!!

that I am simply devastated by this news - NOT!