Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hannah Montana Concert Winner Lied in Essay Describing Father's Death in Iraq
Associated Press ^ | 12/29/07 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/29/2007 7:12:07 AM PST by DFG

GARLAND, Texas — An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."

While gripping, it was not true — and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clublibbylu; fraud; garland; parenting
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-103 next last
To: redrunner
If I had to choose
among the cotton candy,
I'd pass on Miley.

Young Miss Michalka
has a face that knocks me out.
That jail bait baits me . . .

21 posted on 12/29/2007 7:40:30 AM PST by theFIRMbss
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: visualops

I tease my daughter for liking Hannah Montana. But, there are worse things a little girl could be into. I guess I can be faulted for liking Menudo when they were big or the Monkees when they had a reunion thing in ‘86. Both manufactured bands, just like Hannah Montana.


22 posted on 12/29/2007 7:41:14 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: DFG

Same deal here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945384/posts


23 posted on 12/29/2007 7:43:15 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Concho

Oh my achy breaky heart


24 posted on 12/29/2007 7:43:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: G Larry
What were the RULES???

For sure it was suppose to be written by the kid, not the kids dumb-ass mother.

25 posted on 12/29/2007 7:46:59 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DFG
You guys just don't understand. What difference does it make if the girl's father literally was killed in Iraq? The important thing is that her essay brought out a larger truth and raised our consciousness.

;-)

26 posted on 12/29/2007 7:47:22 AM PST by Dr. Frank fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: safeasthebanks

I read the article. The whole Hannah Montana craze is stupid. It’s hard to believe that anyone would let their kids get so carried away with a dumb TV show that they would spend hundreds of dollars for tickets to see her in person.

As for your 8 year old son, he needs to turn off the boob tube and go play outside. Good parents monitor what their kids watch on TV. Hannah Montana is garbage.


27 posted on 12/29/2007 7:49:25 AM PST by DFG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: DFG
..lied in Essay Describing Father's Death in Iraq....

A potential Hillary Clinton in the making...

28 posted on 12/29/2007 7:59:54 AM PST by vetvetdoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DFG

With a mother like this, I see nothing good in this little girl’s future.


29 posted on 12/29/2007 8:01:05 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Concho

Her mother is quoted as saying she did what she needed to do to win.

What BS!! I work with 6,7, and 8 year olds and I can tell you this child did not think of this by herself. What a piece of work that mother is!!


30 posted on 12/29/2007 8:02:13 AM PST by MissEdie (On the Sixth Day God created Spurrier)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: TexasCajun

The handwriting was not of a 6 yr old.


31 posted on 12/29/2007 8:02:34 AM PST by chopperman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Screaming_Gerbil

Ditto. But I had the same hopes for Jamie Lynn Spears when she was 14 (despite the fact that her name sounds like a porn star.)


32 posted on 12/29/2007 8:03:31 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose panda hippo gnu deer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: gunnedah
"We did whatever we could do to win."

The new America way.

33 posted on 12/29/2007 8:04:16 AM PST by TankerKC (You don't have to believe everything you think.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: DFG; safeasthebanks
Hannah Montana is garbage.

What about it is "garbage?" I've watched with my seven year old daughter at it seems fine. Did I miss something?

34 posted on 12/29/2007 8:07:20 AM PST by TankerKC (You don't have to believe everything you think.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: DFG; safeasthebanks

I’m curious - if your 10 year old hates Hannah Montana - what does interest her?

A kid liking a pop star is nothing new ... and parents finding the pop star “garbage” isn’t new either ...

Just because safeasthebanks son likes something on television doesn’t mean he’s not outside playing...

For pete’s sake - your strong opinion about a kids show is rather silly ...

As to the incident with a 6 year old writing the essay - no WAY this kid did it on her own ... for that matter the kid may not have known that her mom wrote it ... though I do think they should take the tickets away - and for that matter hold the mom responsible and make her pay for any other gifts she may have gotten in the win.


35 posted on 12/29/2007 8:12:00 AM PST by pamlet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: DFG

Six year olds do not write “essays”. Methinks it was the Mom who lied.


36 posted on 12/29/2007 8:12:06 AM PST by Lorianne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Screaming_Gerbil
I sure hope she turns out ok.

P < .05

37 posted on 12/29/2007 8:12:38 AM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: DFG

Hannah Montana is a marketing entity. Witness the scads of marketing tie-ins to this ‘personality’. She is not a celebrity, she is a sales gimmick meant to milk parents of their money to the tune of millions of dollars.

It works!


38 posted on 12/29/2007 8:15:57 AM PST by Lorianne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DFG

Now they are teaching 6 year olds to cheat and lie to win.


39 posted on 12/29/2007 8:17:40 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Halls

Exactly.


40 posted on 12/29/2007 8:20:11 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-103 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson