HGTV calls off show starring twins who hate gays, Muslims, divorce, and public schools

[geek tragedy]

Source: Raw Story

But the cable network, which is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, announced it had dropped plans for the show less than two hours after Raw Story called seeking comment about the twins and their political activism.

“HGTV has decided not to move forward with the Benham Brothers’ series,” the network announced Wednesday afternoon on its Facebook page.

David Benham led a prayer rally, Charlotte 7:14, organized with his twin brother outside the 2012 Democratic National Convention to protest “abortion on demand,” “no-fault divorce,” “pornography and perversion,” “adultery,” and “demonic ideologies” taught at public schools and universities.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/07/meet-new-hgtv-reality-stars-who-hate-gays-muslims-divorce-and-public-schools/

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The right decision, but haven't they heard of Google?

[Arugula Latte]

1. I will bet that if HGTV didn't have a big gay viewership they would have aired it.

Glad the creepy brothers got shot down. Yeech.

[geek tragedy]

2. Hey, they thought, if we can have "Property Brothers" why not

"Bigotry Brothers?"

[savalez]

20. LOL!!!

[catbyte]

3. Wow, what's their show called, "The Aryan Boys"? I got the creeps just looking at them.

Look at the looks on their faces & the dead eyes. GACK!

[daligirl519]

8. They look like the kids from

"Village of the Damned."

[hopemountain]

17. exactly what i got when they first began airing the bigotry brothers. nt

[weissmam]

4. The moment you mention demonic you loose the argument

its kind of like the Nazi rule, the moment you invoke Nazi in an argument you loose and should also be considered an idiot

[bullwinkle428]

16. "lose"

[griloco]

19. maybe twas like "loosing the Kraken"--loose their idiocy. nt

[meanit]

26. Yeah, but

they sound like Nazis.

If the shoe fits....

[ronnie624]

31. You should educate yourself about 'Godwin's law'.

You don't lose an argument just because you invoke a NAZI analogy.

Godwin's law (or Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1][2] is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"?[2][3]—​ that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.

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While falling afoul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose his argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

[wyldwolf]

5. conservatives are finding the free market can also work against them

[geek tragedy]

6. yep, bigots find themselves an insular minority nt

[OKNancy]

7. When I've had enough of MSNBC during the day

( I'm retired) ... I turn on HGTV. They are a very gay-friendly channel. They show gay couples all the time on various shows.
Some of their other stars/hosts are gay too. I'm sure they would not appreciate having these to jerks on the same network.

[SoapBox]

9. This is another big WTF...

Is wrong with these Executive types...they need to name and FIRE whoever was going to approve putting on this show.

[meanit]

27. Really.

What's with these shows that glorify assholes?

[Warpy]

29. It's like this, they got approached at some cocktail party

about twins who had an interior desecration business who were ready to make the leap to TV, nice kids, good solid Republican family, will play well to that fictitious Republican majority that was going to vote for Romney but all got flats on the way to the polls.

They did a quickie camera test, found them personable.

Then the public heard about it and vetted the little shits....

[BrotherIvan]

32. That's what I'm saying

Who is so damn stupid these whackos need their own show?

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Let me guess. Another Duck Dynasty brouhaha in the works from the usual suspects.

[geek tragedy]

11. Nah, they nipped this one in the bud before the

knuckle-draggers could adopt them as culture war heroes.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Only because of public pressure

If they were able to get this show started without that many people noticing, and THEN the outrage started, they would have been golden...

[geek tragedy]

13. I dunno, though, does that crowd even watch HGTV? nt

[LibertyLover]

14. The twins' father is an idiot

his comment about Chamberlain and Churchill placed the Munich Agreement and appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1940s. Oy.

[geek tragedy]

15. the nuts didn't fall far from the tree nt

[dem in texas]

24. Father is a Vile Anti-Abortionist

the father "Flip". has quite a history in Dallas, protesting at the abortion clinics and belonging to some of the most radical, dangerous right to life groups.

[marble falls]

18. I didn't know Duck Dynasty was on HGTV.

[hatrack]

21. Who the fuck thought THIS was a good idea?

I mean, seriously?

[msanthrope]

22. Sarah Palin had twins??? nt

[FreedRadical]

23. I didn't know the name,

but at first I thought it was the brothers from the Antiques Road show.

[PasadenaTrudy]

25. What happened to

"Trading Spaces"?

[Warpy]

28. They just hoped that WE haven't heard of Google.

[Cha]

30. So they were thinking about having the bigot bros on a home and gardening show.. what

could go wrong?

[wickerwoman]

33. Well, there's always TLC.