Safety zone: Fox’s Megyn Kelly says she won’t ask the Duggars any ‘tough’ questions
Source: Raw Story
Dont expect Megyn Kelly to conduct a cross-examination of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar during their scheduled appearance Wednesday on Fox News.
The host warned viewers that she may not be as tough as some might wish in asking the reality TV stars about revelations that their eldest son molested five young girls, including some of his sisters, reported Mediaite.
Nothing is off limits, Kelly said. I dont plan on getting into the specific details about what was done, because my understanding is the victims dont want to discuss that either.
Police reports indicate the couple waited more than a year to report the abuse and may have helped cover up criminal activity by a then-teenaged Josh Duggar.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/safety-zone-foxs-megyn-kelly-says-she-wont-ask-the-duggars-any-tough-questions/
Later in the article Kelly went on to try to change the subject, Bill Clinton was accused of rape, Kelly said.
But what about Benghazi and Hillary's emails?
underpants
(183,043 posts)She has to prep her audience on an interview? Sad and funny at the same time
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The Duggar Scandal and the Amazing Hypocrisy it reveals is interfering with the expensive receptors implanted in Foxbots by year's of remote brainwashing.
marble falls
(57,540 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)(The first time is some Western show they have going on, which I enjoy, having spent a lot of time in New Mexico.)
Typical that they won't ask hard questions. No reason to watch then.
I take that back. I hadn't ever seen Megan Kelly before the articles about this interview. She certainly has Shiksappeal, to quote Seinfeld. So perhaps I'll watch with the sound off.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)Iggo
(47,598 posts)underpants
(183,043 posts)That would be my guess
minidriver
(57 posts)calimary
(81,608 posts)Good to have you with us! Love your movies! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) But seriously - glad you're here. And yeah, definitely we have a winner. There's gonna be nothing to see here but Denial On Parade. Along with Denial Glorified and Reinforced. We'll probably hear all about how forgiven they are. Which is cold comfort for me. dubya said that, too - "I'm fergivvin!" Always said with a smirk, too. So I guess that means since you've already been "fergivvin," then you already have a free pass. You've already been issued your Early-Bird Get-Outta-Jail-FREE card, so you're all cleared to do whatever the hell you feel like doing and commit all the sins you want against anybody you want, with impunity. Because "fergivvin."
libodem
(19,288 posts)You win the internetz. Woo Hoo
CanonRay
(14,146 posts)What a joke that network is...
calimary
(81,608 posts)jalan48
(13,916 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Seriously, they had a niche in the market with some viewers, but now that "goody two shoes" image has been tarnished forever in my opinion. They need to simply shrink back into the existence that they had before their series - WITH all the money that they made off the series - and be thankful that no one in their family has (yet) wound up in jail.
Someone the other day commented to me that I shouldn't be so jubilant about a family's downfall. I don't see it that way. I see this as nothing different than rooting for one sports team over another. No one forced the Duggars to make their lives public. They did it FOR THE MONEY just like every other reality television star/family has done. Reality television is just that - reality. How they kept this secret for almost ten years without someone long ago revealing it is something that bewilders me. But their little black secret is out now, Josh has ADMITTED to what he did, there was most definitely a cover up, and things just aren't as perfect in that family as they tried to make America believe.
I'm fine with them seeking and receiving forgiveness from God. But that doesn't mean a police report shouldn't have been filed timely and that doesn't mean that the victims still don't need proper counseling.
But mostly - in my view - we need strong female role models on television for young girls and women to emulate. Not submissive, mousy females cowering to a mighty patriarch. Women have come quite far in my lifetime in becoming equal to men in most respects. This trend needs to continue forward; not regress backwards.
Botany
(70,657 posts)from making all the girls wear dresses, to "side hugs," to setting up their own daughters'
husbands w/other "Christian Families" before they get to date anybody else or go away to
college or work, to pushing their daughters to become baby factories for Jesus as soon as
the are placed into their arranged marriages, to no kissing before they get married, and on
and on.
BTW I have never watched more then 5 minutes of the show at one time but the creepy
part of men telling women and girls how to live to make Jesus happy always comes through.
calimary
(81,608 posts)I didn't like anything about them, already. But then again, I have a rather deep-seated objection to the whole idea of woman as hatchery. That's all we are? Brood mares? That's the ONLY value we bring to the table? How many babies we can issue - as though we were merely some sort of Xerox machine or something? Why are weirdo families like this held up as role models for admiration? They should be in a freakin' ZOO. Or a carnival attraction. Next to the bearded lady (who's probably expected to pop out a bunch of babies, too).
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I merely meant that their audience regulars have had a "goody two shoes" image.
This brood of attention seekers has ALWAYS made me creep out. But they've had their defenders - even of DU!
I cannot tell you how many times I've responded to posts on DU about the Duggars with the comment "yes, they can choose to have that many children if they wish, but the real question is whether or not having that many children is the wise/right/prudent/responsible thing to do", etc.
Novara
(5,876 posts)Duh.
Useless waste of time.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)And souls.
calimary
(81,608 posts)"Well, fuck us all with a surprise stick."
Hekate
(91,042 posts)...to crop up in the near future.
samsingh
(17,605 posts)samsingh
(17,605 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Fux Nooze, protecting sexual predators one interview at a time.
What a POS network.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)Ah, but I see the problem. One shouldn't mistake Megyn for an actual journalist.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Those people should be in jail, not on the air.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Nearly all of the current GOP presidential candidates have been photographed with the 27-year-old Duggar who resigned in the wake of the sex abuse revelations from his position with the anti-LGBT Family Research Council.
Ive been pretty disgusted by how some liberal media types are using whats obviously a family tragedy to score political points, said guest Howard Kurtz.
but it seems okay for republican presidential candidates to score points with a child molester ...........
For the most part I have felt that the cover-up was worse than the crime
douggg
(239 posts)is the way she would interview and treat someone who molested her own young children.
'Fair and balanced'
Skittles
(153,311 posts)Fox News is pimping Michelle and Jim the same way Michelle and Jim pimp their kids
Oktober
(1,488 posts)Won't someone please think of the children?! A la the girls who were molested...
Called for criminal charges for the Sheriff that put it out to In Touch magazine..