Pedophiles and rapists are bad for sausage ads.
How is it the right has seemingly no organization to pressure advertisers like much smaller groups do? I have no opinion of the Duggars. I couldn’t pick them out of a lineup. I just find it amazing that group after group on the left has an ability to push out advertisers while a much larger and more significant force is there for moral issues and yet the media is pushing the culture off the cliff.
Homofascists gotta hate (and screw everything that moves).
David’s Bridal if one of the Duggars said something positive about queer marriage, would you embrace them?
I hear The Second Mile Foundation is looking to buy time for next weeks episode.
All Entertainment Tonight did on tonight’s show was try to connect the Duggar family to the Republican party..showed the with several of the candidates(Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum) the media has decided to make this political, that Republicans have to somehow apologize for the Duggar family..funny, we havent asked the left to apologize for Lena Dunham molesting her little sister and writing about it in her book
All these companies would no doubt have several members of their boards and presidents on the list of Democrat and Clinton donors.
Let's be frank. What the young Mr. Duggar did was wrong. It may have been criminal. It was certainly immoral.
We are not sure what he did as most of the report was redacted and ALL of it was supposed to be sealed. Apparently the only sealed documents that are really sealed are Obama’s records! Bit I digress.
We do know that he was accused of ‘inappropriate touching’ of four girls including his sisters and at least one family friend. It is supposed he did it while they slept. It is certain it was done while he was a young teenager.
What he didn't do is hold down a woman in his Arkansas office and forcibly sodomize and rape her. That is reserved for Middle Aged Democrat operatives.
I admire and respect the Duggars. The decision to allow tv cameras into the home is suspicious and seems selfish. Of course tv cameras will find sin and unethical behavior in every family especially large families. I think kids should be free from tv, computers, and social media. Play outside.
Here’s the thing, and no more Joshin’ -
just a word of Duggar caution:
If you want your kids to see
your family’s fecundity,
be sure they know that having BABIES
doesn’t mean you’re HAVING babies...
Please do not confuse the reaction of people against Christians with the reaction of people against child molesters. This response is more about the child molester angle than the Christian. That said, the Christian angle does amplify the response due the hypocritical undertones.
The Duggars are not being persecuted for being Christian. They are being reviled for being hypocritical in their condemnation of predatory homosexuals while they had a heterosexual predator on the loose in their house.
The negative reaction to the Christian apologists for the Duggars arises from the fact that they concentrate on the Christian aspect of the Duggars and seem to condone the behavior by minimizing it in the light of grace and forgiveness - which does not seem to be as readily available to gays as to their own son.
Look, the Duggars portray themselves as political Christians. That causes a negative response by itself, but add in some child molestation and the reaction increases ten-fold.
Marketing people don’t want to be anywhere near this. To advertise is to support.
I believe I see a lot of TV, but never saw anything negative about the Duggars until here on Free Republic - must have been asleep.
I’ve seen many TV episodes of this family over the years, and admired how so large a family organized themselves in order to live, eat and maintain daily life, as well as special occasions.
Now, the most recent large family featured on TV is the Willis Family, of Nashville, TN. Twelve kids who play a variety of instruments, sing, and dance. Talent to be admired.
Best wishes and prayers for them to remain talented and without stain.
Can only imagine how the Duggar situation has some how affected the Willis’. They are forewarned, for sure.
I think most “Reality” shows get viewers *not* from some compelling story they present, but from the anticipation of some sort of “train wreck” the viewers hope to witness. It would seem the Duggers have now met that expectation and have exhausted their “usefullness” to the network and advertisers.
That being said, if they continued the show, I would bet there would be an increased viewership, at least for a few episodes, just from the voyeurs that (for whatever reason) relish and derive enjoyment from the humiliation, troubles, sins, hardships, etc of others — who are hoping to see the issue picked apart on tv.
Hopefully that creepy couple will do some jail time.