CNN Fabricating New Papa Phil Controversy

Is Phil Robertson advocating men marry teenage girls?

CNN's Pamela Brown is suggesting that Phil Robertson advises "men to marry women at a very young age." Her proof? At age 20, Papa Phil married his wife, who was 16 at the time.

Brown offered further "proof" by showing footage from 2009 where Robertson, speaking at a sportsman's camp in Georgia, joked about marrying young.

You wait till they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket. You gotta marry these girls when they're about 15 or 16 and they'll pick your ducks."

To highlight the absurdity of what is clearly meant as a joke, Robertson goes on to say, "You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course," however, CNN decided that did not fit their story, so they edited it out.

Here is the video:

This is not the first time Papa Phil has made this joke. A quick search on YouTube will show a result where Papa Phil is talking to pastor Greg Laurie at a conference in California in 2013. He says almost the exact same thing:

California, all you young bucks out there, are you listening? If y'all marry these girls at about 16, they'll pick your ducks. If you wait 'till they're 20, they'll pick your pocket. I'm kidding!

In this clip below, he singles out the "young bucks," and not men as CNN would have you believe. Plus, Papa Phil exclaims that he is kidding. There is just no story here. Either CNN does not have access to Google and YouTube, or they are lying.

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