WHY, with all the newsworthy stories out there, is Mary Kay LeTourneau

a topic on MSNBC, yet again? I just do not get it. This older woman got pregnant by a younger man, spent time in jail, and now she's supposed to be a topic of discussion to the exclusion of just about any other valid news story?

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Christians + War Mongers

:nuke:

and diplomatic efforts toward resolving the Iranian nuclear program issue do not. people will watch.

Our media companies don't worry about cultivating political knowledge among the public like they do in Britain. They just want to make a buck.

Older woman rapes a younger man repeatedly and gets pregnant by her victim -- twice. And yes, it was rape: he was 13 when the relationship began, and she was his teacher.

Not that this justifies the media distraction from low poll numbers and US atrocities, but at least we can get the facts correct. :hi:

makes it even worse of a story to cover ad nauseum. We've really sunk culturally, haven't we.

But I find this relationship more of a threat to my marriage than the thought of two adult, stable people wanting to spend their foreseeable futures together (and I don't give a fig whether they are the same sex.)

That's what the cable news networks care about. If your story doesn't have any blonde white woman in peril, chances are they won't really cover it.

a simple minded bs distration to numb the masses

a "manager" who is busy placing her in various interviews. It's all about the money for M.K. They spent a freaking fortune on the wedding and she is not able to get much in the way of a real job as a registered s.o.

Society is pissed off because the relationship with the boy continued anyway despite prison time.

and I am bloody sick of hearing about them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Schmitz

After leaving the Marines, Schmitz took a job as an instructor in philosophy and political science at Santa Ana College. He also became active in the extreme conservative John Birch Society. His views attracted the attention of wealthy Orange County conservatives such as fast-food magnate Carl Karcher, sporting goods heir Willard Voit and San Juan Capistrano rancher Tom Rogers. They helped him win election to the California Senate in 1964 from a district in Orange County. His views were very conservative even by the standards of Orange County -- Schmitz once joked that he had joined the John Birch Society in order to court the centrist vote in Orange County. He opposed sex education in public schools, and believed citizens should be able to carry loaded guns in their cars. He was also very critical of the civil unrest that characterized the mid-1960s. He called the Watts riots of 1965 "a Communist operation," and believed that state universities should be sold to private corporations as a curb against student protests. Some of his remarks had anti-Semitic overtones.


Return to the state Senate
Schmitz won back his state senate seat in 1978. He was named chairman of the Constitutional Amendments Committee. However, his behavior became increasingly erratic. For instance, soon after his election, he advocated a military coup similar to that of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

In 1981, he chaired a committee hearing on abortion, which led to the issuance in his name of a press release headlined "Senator Schmitz and His Committee Survive Attack of the Bulldykes". It referred to his audience at the hearings as having "hard, Jewish, and arguably female faces." It also called feminist attorney Gloria Allred, who testified before the committee, "a slick butch lawyeress." Allred sued for $10 million, but settled for $20,000 and an apology. Schmitz's apology read, in part, "I have never considered her to be...a slick, butch lawyeress". The incident cost him his committee chairmanship. It was too much even for the John Birch Society, which stripped him of his membership for "extremism." Despite this, Schmitz announced plans to run for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1982.

Extramarital affair
Early in 1982, John George Stuckle, an infant born on June 10, 1981, was treated at an Orange County hospital for an injured penis. A piece of hair was wrapped so tightly around the organ "in a square knot," according to one doctor--that it was almost severed. The surgery went well, and the baby suffered no permanent injury. However, the baby's mother, Carla, a 43-year-old Swedish-born immigrant and longtime Republican volunteer, wasn't allowed to take John George home, since some of the attending doctors were convinced the hair had been deliberately tied around his penis

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/mary12.shtml

Mary Kay Letourneau's father dies
John Schmitz was ultraconservative California politician

Friday, January 12, 2001

POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF and NEWS SERVICES

"John G. Schmitz, the ultraconservative politician whose fiery rhetoric defined right-wing Southern California Republicanism for nearly two decades, died Wednesday. He was 70.

Schmitz's legislative career ended in scandal after he conceived two children with one of his former students. Years later, his oldest daughter, teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, would gain her own notoriety. She was sent to prison in Washington state for having sex with a 13-year-old student, later conceiving two children by him.

... Schmitz, whose political hero was U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, was first elected to office in 1964 as a state senator, the first John Birch Society member ever to win a seat.

... By 1978, Schmitz and his wife, Mary, were raising the couple's seven children in a strict Catholic household in Corona del Mar. Schmitz handily had won a state Senate seat that year, but in 1981 he was rebuked by fellow leglsiators and stripped of his committee chairmanship after slurring feminists, Jews and homosexuals in an anti-abortion news release. The scandal that ultimately ended Schmitz' political career was the 1982 revelation that the politician who espoused family values had a pregnant mistress and a 15-month-old son."

boosh administration!?!?

from the same Wikipedia link --

Family
John P.(son): Deputy Counsel to the Vice President during Reagan administration, Deputy Counsel to the President, George H.W. Bush administration. Joseph E. Schmitz (son): Department of Defense Inspector General, George W. Bush administration. Other children: Phillip (deceased); Mary Kay; Jerome; Terry Ann; Elizabeth. Married for 47 years to the former Mary E. Suehr.


It appears this is yet another fine, upstanding, "family values" GOP family fully integrated into the "we goddam gotta protect the flag from ever touching the ground but don't gotta let kids be raised by gays!" crowd.


:grr: I hate these dirty republican rat bastards!

family friend?

I'm kicking this otherwise absurd thread because I want to know more about booosh's "relationship" with LeTourneau.

Obviously her father was in the upper (though not top) echelons of GOPdom, and with her brother apparently in the administration, a connection seems reasonable to suppose. So. . . . .

Background

Mary Kay's father was John G. Schmitz, a U.S. Congressman from Orange County, California and a professor at Santa Ana College. He was generally considered one of the more conservative members of the House, and ran for the Presidency in 1972 on the ultra-conservative American Independent Party ticket. Her mother Mary was a homemaker and anti-feminist activist. Mary Kay is one of seven children born to John and Mary, and has two half-siblings that were the result of a longtime affair between her father and his mistress. One of her brothers served as White House counsel in the George H. W. Bush administration. Another, Joseph E. Schmitz, was appointed Inspector General of the Department of Defense by George W. Bush. Mary Kay Schmitz married Steve Letourneau on June 30, 1984. The couple had two daughters and two sons together.

Mary Kay LeTourneau & her baby husband are a walking freak show. People love hearing about people who are more f*cked up than they are so they can feel better about their own miserable lives.