Are Christians being played by A&E's marketing department?

[Banana!]

It's like the Miley Cyrus controversy all over again.

Step 1: Piss off Christians
Step 2: They give you tons and tons of free advertisement, vomiting stuff about Duck Dynasty (or in the past, Miley Cyrus) all over facebook, Fox News, etc.
Step 3: The Christians create a brand new market for the show that never existed before (due to all the free advertising they gave them that hauled in the curious non-watchers) and they go back to watching Duck Dynasty anyway)
Step 4: Bring back Phil so the boycotting stragglers think they "won" (despite merely playing into the marketing department's hands) and now you have three times as many viewers as before.
@Dolly Llama
Hate to break it to you, but Gabby's Little Angel is probably right. It's working across the board.
However, Christians are the ones flooding my facebook about this, and Christians are probably the ones flooding yours.