San Diego (CNN) -- This Christmas, enjoy the turkey and roast beef. But do yourself a favor, and skip the duck. This whole controversy over A&E's hit show "Duck Dynasty" is whacked. Better make that "quacked." First, the network puts Phil Robertson, the family patriarch, on indefinite suspension for making insensitive remarks in a magazine interview. Then, the rest of the family rallies around their leader and suggests that the hit show will not go on without him. As you probably know unless you've spent the last couple of weeks crouching in a duck blind, Robertson -- in paraphrasing a Bible verse -- appeared to liken homosexuality to bestiality and used crude language to describe his own sexual preference. In speaking to GQ magazine, he also seemed to minimize the discrimination that African-Americans suffered in the South before the civil rights movement.
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Ruben Navarrette: Phil Robertson's role in future "Duck Dynasty" shows unclear
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He says the network that airs the show is continuing to profit from it
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New episodes are to be aired in January, and there's a holiday marathon
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Navarrette: Network gains from the Robertson persona, which it helped create
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