Duggars in the news.

[abasket]

Wonder if the body guard was somehow provided by TLC seeing that both “Kate” and “Duggars” are/were under the TLC umbrella???

I’m going to take articles like the one in post #1019 with a grain of salt - there are lots of print rags out there and just because I feel this Duggar situation is real and awful, it doesn’t mean that I’m going to believe every little thing I read from publications I would not normally trust.

[lookingforward]

Yes, it had struck me that a rag had produced this revelation. Here’s some counterpoint, abasket.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/06/09/on-duggar-story-intouch-editorial-boss-cites-extremely-good-investigative-technique-in-trooper-interview/

[greenwitch]

Here’s another family with very tight control over the children. They were not allowed to leave their apartment in Manhattan until one escaped, and little by little, the control was broken down. There’s a documentary about the boys that has just come out, called The Wolfpack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/movies/the-wolfpack-brothers-step-out-of-their-world.html?_r=0

When you’re young, you don’t know why things are the way they are,” said Govinda Angulo, who is 22 and Narayana’s fraternal twin. “You just accept it.”

It was Mukunda, the third youngest and a natural leader, who, in April 2010, at 15, first defied his father’s orders and slipped outside. He was wearing a homemade mask modeled on the one worn by Michael Myers in “Halloween.” Later he said he figured it would keep his father unaware should they cross paths. Discomfited shopkeepers called the police, who picked Mukunda up, and, after he would not respond to their questions, took him to Bellevue Hospital Center, believing him to be mentally ill. He was returned home a week later.

[LucieTheLakie]

It would not be the first time a “rag” broke legitimate news. It was the National Enquirer, after all, that broke the story about John Edwards’s extramarital affair and “love child.” (And I had read rumors about his infidelities on Huffington Post at least a year before that story broke).

[VeryHappy]

@greenwitch, very interesting. I had not heard of this. (Maybe because the date of the NYT article is this coming Monday.)

[LucieTheLakie]

The Angulo brothers were featured in the NYT back in January as well:

http://nyti.ms/1CKpiDM

[raclut]

Any one heard of the Willis family? They seem like a nice family.

[greenwitch]

@VeryHappy - I hadn’t even noticed that date! I saw something about the documentary on the AFI site and did a search and the NY Times article came up.

Good for them for escaping, changing their names, going out into the world, and generally living like they want to live.

[oldmom4896]

The NY Times often posts articles on their website several days before they appear in the newspaper. The date on the article is the date it will be in the paper.

[OspreyCV22]

Remember the InTouch editor said they have more stories coming out about the Duggars? What kind of journalist is Megan Kelly? She failed to report that DHS had opened a new investigation on the Duggars on May 27, just days before her interviews. The Duggars refused to let the social worker talk to the subject of the investigation.

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/new-investigation-launched-against-duggar-family-911-called-60330

[emilybee]

“What kind of journalist is Megan Kelly?”

She’s not a trained journalist. She is a lawyer turned blonde host of a talk show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megyn_Kelly

She grew up in the suburb of Syracuse I lived in as a teen and then moved to the town I live in now. She also went to the same uni (Syracuse) where I got my masters in Poly Sci from. I think she is stalking me!!!

[LucieTheLakie]

Which explains why she came across as a slick defense lawyer in that interview. But I was still surprised because she has a reputation for being less partisan than a lot of her Fox News colleagues.

The New York Times Magazine did a lengthy profile on her not that long ago: http://nyti.ms/1J7fA2i

[anomander]

Megyn Kelly :))

“Santa is white, kids. He just is.”

[VeryHappy]

She said that??

[emilybee]

^she did, indeed.

[musicprnt]

Sounds like Megyn Kelly fits a quip from the 40th anniversary Saturday Night Live , by Jane Curtain “Once I was the only pretty blond delivering fake news, now there is a whole network of them”.

[GnocchiB]

^^^ I think I read she said Jesus is white, too. I’d be willing to bet the Duggars concur.

[LucieTheLakie]

Here’s the quote for folks who don’t like to follow links (although I assure you that is a legitimate NYT “permalink”

As Kelly’s star has risen, so has the scrutiny. O’Reilly had warned her: “They’re going to come after you.” This has made the balancing act of her on-screen persona — between her maverick moments on the one hand, and her still-reliable taste for red-meat topics on the other — an increasingly delicate one. In December 2013, she became a figure of ridicule on “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” for asserting that Santa Claus, contrary to the claim of a tongue-in-cheek essay in Slate, was incontrovertibly Caucasian. (She said she was joking, too, and lamented the tendency of others to “race bait.”)

[anomander]

John Stewart’s sendup of that Kelly episode is hilarious and worth checking out.

“Megyn is reassuring kids who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus, sophisticated enough to watch a political talk show, and racist enough to care.”

She later claimed she was joking but she actually had convened a panel who were all really angry at the notion that some people would claim Santa was white.

[VeryHappy]

OMG. Just to be associated with the topic is awful. I didn’t know that about her.

She sure is pretty, I’ll grant her that.

But jeez – she really said that? I’m astounded.