Money trumps liberal outrage. That's the lesson. We're a capitalist society, and people (even liberals) like cash. A&E may hate the right-wing Frankenstein it's created, but the bottom line is the bottom line. If you were hoping that A&E would "teach Christians a lesson" by permanently firing Phil Robertson, you were sorely mistaken. That was never going to happen. Duck Dynasty is the number one nonfiction show on cable TV, and A&E - however much it might want to - was never going to slaughter its cash cow by dumping the star.