7. Wait. Did A&E violate the First Amendment by suspending Robertson?
Uh, no, not even a little bit. As Bobby Jindal — a Rhodes Scholar, by the way — was apparently unaware, "no clause in the First Amendment establishes a right to star in a reality show on A&E regardless of what you say to GQ about vaginas and anuses," as Josh Barro put it. Unless you think it should be illegal to fire people based on their political beliefs (which would be one hell of an impingement on employers' economic freedoms), there just isn't a policy issue here of any consequence.
8. This is all super dumb. Is there some cool, preferably non-racist/homophobic/weirdly-anti-Shintoism thing that Robertson did that I can think about instead?
How about this — Robertson was a star quarterback at Louisiana Tech. Indeed, he was starting quarterback, leaving fellow player Terry Bradshaw — who would go on to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories and eight AFC championships — in second on the team's depth chart. The two reunited for the first time since college recently, as shown in the above video. While the Washington Redskins expressed interest in Robertson, he ultimately chose duck hunting over football, which ended up working out fairly well for him, all things considered.
Crap, that story almost involved zero racism and then the Redskins got involved.
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