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Tonya Harding's Mother in First Post-'I, Tonya' Interview: "I Didn't Abuse Any of My Children"
Hollwyood Reporter ^ | 5:20 PM PST 1/11/2018 by | Katie Kilkenny

Posted on 01/12/2018 8:04:01 AM PST by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 01/12/2018 8:04:01 AM PST by BenLurkin
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"I don’t think that there was more than one day a week, sometimes, that I didn’t get beaten,"

I am thinking that maybe it didn't "take".

2 posted on 01/12/2018 8:08:10 AM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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We (General ‘we’. Nothing personal)
are digging deeper and deeper into a 25 y/o
‘story’ that almost nobody cares about!

All of a sudden, this jurrasic old fable of fightin’ females has been rehashed. Tonya is being interviewed as though she’s done something grand and perversely courageous. What? is a book about this coming out? Oy!


3 posted on 01/12/2018 8:09:08 AM PST by lee martell
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I can’t believe that anyone watched this


4 posted on 01/12/2018 8:11:30 AM PST by laweeks
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To: lee martell

Movie..................Probably a Disney creation...............needed the publicity..........


5 posted on 01/12/2018 8:12:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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It’s fit and fodder for Lifetime................


6 posted on 01/12/2018 8:13:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: BenLurkin

This might all supremely miss the point. One might claim to “teach right from wrong” where one’s idea of right is another kind of wrong, e.g. based on selfishness and mere appearance.

Without the positive agape love of Christ, evil cannot be rebuked from a life.

It was wrong also for Tonya to air dirty laundry but it could be understandable. The public might be the closest thing to God she knows.

Let’s exercise two sided charity now while whatever facts actually come out that do. It’s not uncommon for wicked parents to raise wicked children.


7 posted on 01/12/2018 8:16:39 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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This particular story is from a past era, but child abuse goes on, even today.

And though there have no doubt been books on this particular topic, the entertainment connection de jour is a motion picture. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580036/


8 posted on 01/12/2018 8:16:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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#2: "I am thinking that maybe it didn't "take"."

I have my doubts about her mom "spanking" the kid. Spanking is meant to instruct. Beating a kid is not spanking, and does not instruct. No surprise it didn't "take".

I admire Tonya for ability to survive. She does what has to be done to survive, no self pity. She is a tough cookie, and not strung out on drugs, booze, or government welfare.
 

9 posted on 01/12/2018 8:17:28 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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Oh it could have taken all too well.


10 posted on 01/12/2018 8:18:17 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Tonya#Accolades


11 posted on 01/12/2018 8:22:25 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Could we say “spoiling the rod” does nobody good.

Such things bring overreactions which play into overweening government nannydom.

The big problem is that people who should know the New Testament well seem satisfied to live in the Old.


12 posted on 01/12/2018 8:22:47 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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A comedy?..........


13 posted on 01/12/2018 8:27:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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If even just half the story about the mother is true, she’s a witch. Not exactly a mother of the year award winner.


14 posted on 01/12/2018 8:27:40 AM PST by LouieFisk
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A comedy?”

Kind of a mix of black comedy and a “mockumentry”, I enjoyed it.


15 posted on 01/12/2018 8:29:46 AM PST by LouieFisk
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Remember this when it was going down and know for a fact she slapped Tonya.


16 posted on 01/12/2018 8:29:53 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“She is a tough cookie, and not strung out on drugs, booze, or government welfare”

Yup, she’s been doing roofing for a living, even though she’s married (happily this time) and they have a son.


17 posted on 01/12/2018 8:32:02 AM PST by LouieFisk
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Oh no, I remember this wacko. Calling Tonya “Twinkles!” “Come here Twinkles! Where are you Twinkles? Bashing in another knee Twinkles?”


18 posted on 01/12/2018 8:32:29 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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My mother would probably say the same thing. In her view, she did nothing wrong.

By today’s standards both she and my stepfather would be locked up and we’d all be in foster care.


19 posted on 01/12/2018 8:34:44 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: laweeks

I didn’t watch it. Figured it’s be more of her lies.

“[Harding has] lied so much she doesn’t know what isn’t a lie anymore.” BTDT. It’s best to cut compulsive liars out of your life.


20 posted on 01/12/2018 8:39:29 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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