Update: "19 Kids & Counting's" Joseph Duggar Arrested for Child Molestation

[Dianne3]

Anyone else think that the reason the parent's didn't do much, is because the father himself or the people around him are also child molesters?

I'm not too sure a 14 year old becomes a molester unless he also was molested.

[JamesG]

The Duggar Parents Are Going to Speak Publicly About the Scandal
by Tim Surette
May 30, 2015


Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the progenitors of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting", have scheduled their first interview after last week's molestation scandal involving their eldest son Josh.

Fox News' Megyn Kelly has landed the coveted interview, which will be taped Wednesday in the Duggars' home state of Arkansas, with a large portion of it broadcast later that evening on The Kelly File, Deadline reports.

Some of the interview will also be held for a one-hour special The Kelly File, scheduled to air on Friday night.



The couple have been largely quiet since their eldest son Josh admitted to molesting several underage girls, including some of his sisters, when he was 14 and 15 years old.

Since the scandal broke, TLC pulled "19 Kids and Counting" off its schedule, and Hulu yanked the show from its streaming service. TLC has not yet decided whether it will cancel the series.

http://www.tvguide.com/news/duggar-p...s-megyn-kelly/

[JamesG]

Michelle Duggar Tells Megyn Kelly She Felt Like “Failure” as Second Police Report on Son Fondling Sisters Emerges
by Lisa de Moraes
June 3, 2015


“As parents we felt, ‘We’re failures’,” Michelle Duggar says in Fox News Channel’s first glimpse her sit-down with Megyn Kelly. “We tried to raise our kids to do what’s right — to know what’s right. And yet one of our children made really bad choices.”

Just a few hours earlier, In Touch published an update to its Duggar coverage – this one based on a report is from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office which, reported son Josh Duggar had, in March of 2002, come to his father to confess “that he had been sneaking into [redacted, his sisters’] room at night and had been touching [redacted, his sisters] on the breasts and vaginal areas while they were sleeping” in a common bedroom, that Josh went from sister to sister, and that it had occurred four to five times.

In Touch said it obtained this report, as it had with the Springdale police Department report on Josh Duggar, using the Freedom of Information Act.




Late last week the Fox News Channel primetime anchor landed tonight’s much-chased interview with the Duggar parents. Fox News will turn around the interview quickly to air in Kelly’s timeslot, 9 PM ET.

The bulk of the interview, which will be conducted in their hometown in Arkansas, will air tonight, but FNC also has planned a one-hour Kelly File Special for Friday night.

http://deadline.com/2015/06/duggar-i...eo-1201437172/

[JamesG]

Megyn Kelly Interviews Josh Duggar Victims/Sisters Jill and Jessa – Update
by Lisa de Moraes
June 3, 2015


Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly interviewed two of the Duggar daughters, Jill and Jessa, for tonight’s broadcast. It will be the first time any of Josh Duggar’s alleged victims have been named.

“I do want to speak up in his defense, against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying,” Jessa Duggar, one of four sisters that Josh Duggar allegedly fondled when he and they were minors, told Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly in an interview today.



“I’m like, ‘that is so overboard and a lie really.’ I mean people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims,” Jessa said during the interview, which will be telecast on tonight’s The Kelly File.

She described what her brother did as being “very wrong.”




Megyn Kelly released a statement after doing her interview with the Duggar family:

“Jim Bob and Michelle very much understand their show and reputation are on the line. I believe it still has a chance, it’s not totally done. I think they knew they needed to speak to somebody and get their story out.”

She added — their story being that the information about their son and daughters was “released without their consent.”

http://deadline.com/2015/06/megyn-ke...ht-1201437291/

[TMC]

http://gawker.com/19-excuses-and-cou...ade-1708883481

From "This was not rape" to "They didn't know he had done it." PLUS: Duggar interview was "a straightforward clean-up job" for Fox News.

[JamesG]

Sarah Palin says it's "hypocritical" to criticize the Duggars while letting Lena Dunham off the hook.

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/...53385009473588

[tlc38tlc38]

This whole thing is a total mess. More time should be spent helping the victims instead of focusing on the parents.

I've always been told that when you point your finger at someone, you're pointing 3 fingers back at yourself.

The sad thing about this is all the money that will be made off of interviews and such. Not a damn penny should be gained from a travesty like this.

[TMC]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahjones/h...ch-hurts-women

With shows like 19 Kids and Counting and Submissive Wives’ Guide to Marriage, TLC hurts every former fundamentalist who’s been dehumanized and silenced.

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Vahan

And didn't his parents bash the gay community?

Such hypocrisy...

Just because some guy in this family did a very bad thing a few years ago, that doesn't make homosexuality any less perverted than it's always been.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by Tweety

Just because some guy in this family did a very bad thing a few years ago, that doesn't make homosexuality any less perverted than it's always been.

I'm amazed you're not the governor.

[Tweety]

As a matter of fact, if this guy had done the same thing to a couple of his younger brothers (instead of his younger sisters), the reaction would be somewhat different.

The right would still say that what he did was wrong.

The left would demand that he be given his own reality show, which they would completely embrace.

[Coffeecup]

What happened to Lena Dunham. I am not familiar with her. What show is she on.??

[UMFaninMD]

Originally Posted by Coffeecup

What happened to Lena Dunham. I am not familiar with her. What show is she on.??

Lena Dunham is the creator and star of Girls, a dramedy on cable. I think it's on HBO or Showtime, and it can get pretty racy. She admitted in a book that she touched her sister when she was a kid. So some of the Duggar supporters are claiming hypocrisy that Lena is getting away with similar behavior.

Both what she and Josh Duggar did are nasty but there is a difference the Duggar supporters either can't or won't realize...Lena Dunham is not publicly calling the LBGT community perverts and using religion as a form of hate and shame. You don't tell someone their lifestyle is wrong and sinful when you have a family member doing things in your own home that are also sinful, but is also a crime at the same time.

[UMFaninMD]

Originally Posted by Tweety

As a matter of fact, if this guy had done the same thing to a couple of his younger brothers (instead of his younger sisters), the reaction would be somewhat different.

The right would still say that what he did was wrong.

The left would demand that he be given his own reality show, which they would completely embrace.

You are delusional to think "the left" would support someone who molests his brothers and ask for a reality show. I can't even fathom how someone sane and rational would even believe that crap.

[Vahan]

Originally Posted by UMFaninMD

You are delusional to think "the left" would support someone who molests his brothers and ask for a reality show. I can't even fathom how someone sane and rational would even believe that crap.

I know there are people who are as left-wing as they come, that would detest stuff like that. To lump everyone on "the left" in the same group, like Tweety just did, is not only stereotypical, but also an oversimplification. And with comments like that, it is no wonder left and right can't get along.

But like I said, it isn't worth wasting your time trying to debate him, and in the process raising your blood pressure. I know, because I tried that before. Just ignore him, and you'll do fine.