I just read the entire article (I only read excerpts) and see right off the bat a writer who believes himself to be wordly and nuanced, yet here he is in the deep South with a bunch of hicks so let's make fun of them - which he does throughout the entire article.
It was a great opportunity to do a clean piece on a devoutly Christian southern family and allow his audience to form their own opinions, but he couldn't help himself taking potshots. He almost redeems himself toward the end of the article in this paragraph, but does the potshot in the last sentence:
As we speed along, a speck of mud gets on my shirt—OMG MUD EWW SO GROSS!—and I flick it away. Meanwhile, Phil sits next to me, and his whole life is caked in mud. He’s been out here plunging his hands into the earth and ripping the heads off ducks while I’ve been in suburbia with my thumb up my ass. I feel both inadequate and ungrateful. There’s only one way to absolve myself, I figure, and that is to shoot the **** out of this crossbow.Read More
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/television/201401/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson#ixzz2oaHNc3WoThis guy is an entertainment writer, and this is his spin on a family he clearly finds repulsive - cause he is the cool metrosexual writer from GQ.