Ian Bayne, GOP Congressional Candidate: 'Duck Dynasty Star Is Rosa Parks Of Our Generation'

[Nanjing to Seoul]

Source: Huff Post

Embattled "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson has been suspended from his show by A&E for his remarks about gays and African-Americans, and now some high-profile conservatives are rallying to his side and defending him. On Friday, GOP congressional candidate Ian Bayne went all in, comparing Robertson to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians," Bayne said in an email to supporters.

"What Parks did was courageous," he added. "What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too."

Robertson's anti-gay remarks in an interview with GQ comparing homosexuality to bestiality have received quite a bit of attention. But he also commented on the state of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, claiming that they were all carefree and totally happy with their (unequal) status:

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It's courageous to be a racist, bigoted asshole? Then I guess David Duke is one of the most courageous people in the county.

[weissmam]

1. he is the Rosa Parks

If Rosa Parks was a fake red neck (with several million in the bank) ignorant bible thumper (I don't think so)

[abakan]

15. He is to...

Rosa Parks, as Ronald Reagan, is to John Kennedy... Not even in the same league and with less gravitas.

[YOHABLO]

2. Ian Bayne, GOP Congressional Candidate. Why should I care? GOP=pathetic

[Voice for Peace]

3. lordy lordy lordy

this is the new generation of republicans.

[savalez]

4. Aren't you sick of them?

I know I am. Bunch of kooks.

[allan01]

5. huh ?

[geomon666]

6. Ian Bayne is an asshole

Then again so are most repukes.

[Cha]

7. Brawawaaaa.. duckdyNASTY took a Stand

for Bigots.

Christianity has nothing to do with what duckass spewed.. and ian bayne would know that if he weren't such a poor bigoted lying asshole himself.

[Plucketeer]

30. GAH!

I'm telling you.... it's DUNCE dynasty - DUNCE dynasty.

[heaven05]

8. deep. deep insult to the memory of Rosa Parks

[yourmovemonkey]

10. These people have no shame

To equate their supposed struggle with that of a person who actually was oppressed... it makes me really mad too.

[Roarybeans]

44. Idiotic

I agree with you. Complete profanity of the spirit of the civil rights movement.

[MrModerate]

9. Flat-out nuts. n/t

[King_Klonopin]

11. Conservatism Playbook, pg 1 :

Shield yourself from all backlash and criticism by playing the victim,
as you spew bile and hate onto some group of disenfranchised and
oppressed human beings.

I'm sure the struggle of being a male, heterosexual WASP in the South
has been daunting.

"We shall overcome...We shall overcome...."

[Orsino]

12. He is just like her...

...minus the character, the persecution, the courage, the civil disobedience and the arrest.

[toby jo]

13. Go for it, Ian.

See your party pick up the voters it needs from people of color, change, and character.

Make a banner and fly it from your office, shithead: "We hate you"

Let all the other lames pick it up and go with it.

[Rozlee]

14. No, he is nothing like my namesake.

Stupid asshole Repuke homophobic evangelicals.

[Enthusiast]

16. Sorry, but Ian Bayne is a fucking idiot.

I mean, he just is.

[murielm99]

17. This guy is just a couple of blocks away from

my son's district. He dodged a bullet.

Foster is a good guy. I hope he can win. I hope a few more of the repubbie contenders put their foot in their mouth, too.

[underpants]

18. I thought Rosa Parks ENDED racism

[rtracey]

19. ummm

A total tool.

[catbyte]

20. OMFG. What an insult to Rosa Parks and an insult to justice.

What an asshat. The Republican party is an embarrassment & a disgrace..

[TBF]

21. These people are dumber than bricks. nt

[enki23]

22. Making the nation safe for bigoted assholes once again!

Well, it mostly always has been, really. But not always on TV with millions of viewers. Often, yes. But not always. That's why this is so special.

[L0oniX]

23. Phil Robertson for GOP POTUS! Line em up.

[packman]

24. Lunch Counter tomorrow

Next thing you know, those damn Duckers will want to sit down with decent folk and then , by Gawd, they'll be drinkin' coffee at them der Starbucke things, then they'll be amixing in with the decent folk marryin' our women .
I say we decent people get together and form a group, maybe wear ties and suits and such and call ourselves the PADD's (People Against DUCK DYNASTY) and maybe throw a dead duck onto their lawns-you know, just to let them know we don't like their kind around here.

[tclambert]

25. Rosa Parks got fired from a reality TV show? I never knew.

[George II]

26. Amazing how these whack jobs always tarnish the name of Rosa Parks to justify....

....the existence of their insane idols.

I once knew someone who likened Timothy McVeigh to Rosa Parks!!!

Where do they get this crap, is it published in some kind of members' manual somewhere?

[Eleanors38]

29. Manuals. I suspect it is. GOPer tactic is to commandeer an icon of progressives...

and appropriate it for themselves in order to neutralize any criticism, and to spite their enemies. They'll do it everytime.

[treestar]

53. This is when they aren't calling her a communist

Believe me, there are right wingers who do that (also to MLK and Mandela)

[santamargarita]

27. Rosa Parks, I was thinking more like Timothy McVeigh

This GOP asshole grabs some hillbilly and thinks he found Jesus.

[Eleanors38]

28. Only similarity: Both were armed. But for different reasons.

[sendero]

31. Dear Mr Bayne..

.... It's funny you would even mention Rosa Parks. See, your kind (and make no mistake, you are defending a racist so I know of your kind) was firmly opposed to everything Rosa Parks stood for back in the 60s. You were on the wrong side of right back then, just as you are now.

Your rhetorical nonsense will no doubt resonate in the ears of the rest of the racists still wishing for a white America, but the rest of us know what you are.

[AtheistCrusader]

32. Thanks, I just fucking threw up in my mouth a little.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. Did the chauffeur tell Phil which seat he had to use in the Limo?

Oh, the humanity!

[Turbineguy]

34. Maybe he had

a woody when he came up with this. On the other hand maybe this is as clever as he gets.

[47of74]

35. Attention GOP

Shut the FUCK up.

That is all.

[Gothmog]

36. Texas has a person who is even nuttier than Ian Bayne (Robertson is a prophet and speaks for G-D)

One of the GOP candidates for Lt. Governor in Texas is even nuttier than Ian Bayne. Dan Patrick is a state senator who thinks that G-d speaks through Phil Robertson. http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/12/24/dan-patrick-is-going-for-the-craziest-sumbitch-in-texas-award/

Texas State Senator Dan Patrick is becoming the Goofball Whisperer.

He’s running for Lt. Governor in the Terror Trifecta of incumbent David Dewhurst, Patrick, and the usual holder of the Holy Crap, What’s He Thinking? ....

So, answer me this. If that was God talking, why does he use words he wouldn’t use? You’re cruising for a headache on this one, Honey. If I ever call you on the phone and I’m using words I normally don’t use and sound like somebody from Boston, it probably ain’t me.

You know, when Moses came down from the mountain, God’s words were inscribed in stone, not gibbered through some guy who thought slavery was pretty damn cool for African Americans.

[christx30]

37. That's just... Wow.

The whole Christian persecution complex would be funny if people weren't dying because of it. Teens get bullied and commit suicide. Families disown gay people. It's sickening. And when there is even a slight bit of pushback from people that don't like being treated like crap, they claim you're attacking their entire faith.
A pushback and telling someone to leave you alone is not like being forced to the back of the bus. You are not being oppressed. The people that you are trying to oppress are telling you to go to hell.

[MountainMama]

51. Yes.

Yes. A thousand million times yes. Thank you. Thank you.

[christx30]

56. "But it's my constitutional right

to call someone the f-word or the n-word totally without consequence. I should be able to stand on the street corner ala. Bruce Willis with a sandwhich board saying 'Kill all N's' with no one saying anything at all. If anyone does, they are violating my civil rights. And if I get in your face and scream the f-word, and you push me, you're violating my religious rights. Jesus wants me to do it."

[The Wizard]

38. Yeah sure, that's the ticket

Maybe if Rosa Parks was a Grand Kleigle in the Konservative Kristian Kouncil.

[Skittles]

39. STOP IT THE WIZARD

omg

[HoosierCowboy]

40. I'd like to be the first bus driver...

....to tell him to go to the back of the bus and shut the Hell up. Like the name of Mordur in Lord of the Rings, let his name no longer be mentioned...

[EvolveOrConvolve]

41. Time to bring out my favorite pie chart

[PasadenaTrudy]

42. Some people

just do not understand history. What an idiot.

[daleo]

43. The Daffy Duck of our generation.

[TNNurse]

45. Anyone

Who agrees with this is WRONG, IGNORANT, STUPID, UNEDUCATED, DELUSIONAL, RACIST,....I have run out of synonyms..... anyone want to add some????

[lunasun]

46. Yes hate speech is seen as brave

hate and ignorance as “biblical" and "righteous"

[Zorra]

47. Another republican candidate puts foot in mouth, then shoots self in same foot, eliminating

any possibility of winning election.

You can't fix stupid.

[gopiscrap]

48. what a dumbass

[noiretextatique]

49. absolutely insane. this fool would not have supported rosa parks

you fool no one, jerk

[yurbud]

50. rednecks are being persecuted by not being allowed to persecute others

"If we cain't do no lynching nur gay bashing, what we got ta go on living fur?"

[treestar]

52. There are no words for how twisted that is

[Initech]

54. Ugh, that makes me want to....

[Gothmog]

55. Rev. Jesse Jackson has best response to this idiot

Jesse Jackson has the best response to this idiot that I have seen http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/12/27/jesse-jackson-calls-duck-dynasty-star-phil-robertsons-remarks-about-blacks-offensive/

“These statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, more than 59 years ago,” said Jackson in a statement obtained by ABC News. “At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law. Robertson’s statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was ‘white privilege.’”

[KansDem]

57. Yeah...okay...

Whatever...

[anti partisan]

58. And Todd Akin let out a slight grin, muttering "wow someone finally topped my stupidity". (nt)