Posted on 06/07/2015 10:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Jill Dillard: "They're used to exploiting women."
In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly that ran on Friday, two of the Duggar daughters who were victims of their brother’s inappropriate sexual touching called out the magazine that illegally released the records that not only revealed the identity of their brother Josh (who was a juvenile at the time), but also indirectly identified the victims.
Jill Dillard, the second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, told Kelly that she suspected there might be an agenda behind the story. “I mean, I know that the tabloids that released this, even have — you know, they’re used to exploiting women. They have the parent company –”
“Well, Bauer…they’re a major porn provider…” her sister Jessa Seewald interrupted.
“So I don’t know if they are — maybe their mindset, they’re just used to making objects out of women and maybe we just didn’t seem any different,” Seewald continued.
Jill and Jessa are members of the conservative Christian family that has been featured in the reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting, and the young women are spot on about the background of the company that publishes In Touch magazine.
Bauer Media Group, based in Hamburg, Germany, publishes 600 magazines, over 400 digital products, and 50 radio and TV stations around the world, including In Touch magazine, the publication that uncovered the story of the abuse in the Duggar home. They also traffic in porn — some of it Nazi-themed., as you’ll see on the next page.
The Wrap reported in 2013:
But an investigation by TheWrap has found that there is a darker side to the privately held company, including publication of at least one magazine appealing to neo-Nazis, as well as significant involvement in the distribution of pornography — including Nazi-themed porn movies.
These lend perspective to Bauer’s legal woes in the United States, including a $50 million defamation lawsuit by Tom Cruise, filed last October after two U.S.-based publications alleged he’d abandoned his daughter Suri. In fact, Bauer generates dozens of legal complaints worldwide each year about invasion of privacy or libel, according to a lawyer who has frequently opposed them.
The Duggar sisters are absolutely correct. In Touch and Bauer Media Group make money, in part, by exploiting women and trafficking in content that sexually objectifies women. The young women in the Duggar family who were victims of sexual abuse by their brother were victimized a second time by a magazine that treated them, not as accidental collateral damage in their honest efforts to report a legitimate news story, but as an integral part of a business model based on sexual exploitation of women. They exploited the sexual abuse suffered by the Duggar sisters for money, pure and simple. And they’ve done it with countless other women over the years. Disgusting.
Wow, someone with caps lock going is accusing someone else of being obsessed.
Because you're having reading comprehension issues.
YOU TOO...go away.
you are positively possessed by this story. You don’t see it because you are on a crusade to spread disinformation but you look absolutely unhinged with your hatred for Josh and the parents.
Anyone else?
1. an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
Had Josh been an adult when he did this and still continue the crime, he would a pedophile. There is no doubt about it. But he was 14 going on 15, in other words he was a juvenile not an adult
Big difference
There is nothing that I have said about the Duggars that the police report or the Duggars have not said themselves.
Biblical custom held that a child became accountable at age 13. Since we’re being all biblical about this ought we not stipulate that Josh was accountable for his actions?
Yikes. These Duggar threads have become creepier than the charges.
You stare at evil long enough and it consumes you.
Most everyone here agrees that Josh was despicable, even Josh.
Enough already. We have an election to win, don’t we?
The election next year.
Matthew 7:1
Also Luke 6:37
So you agree he’s accountable at 13? Great!
Don’t put words in my fingertips that I did not type. Got it?
This thread makes me ill.
Especially the crowd that demands their pound of flesh or you condone it crap...
Sick.
Loud and clear.
Answered it. Thanks.
I pretty much keep the traveling shoes handy. I have zero tolerance for crap. And sadly enough every church I have been in has had some. Except one. I wasn’t able to exactly pin it down but a few things said from the pulpit gVe me pause so I hit the road before maybe I should have.
Seriously, I know Bill Clinton is bad and I know Billy Graham is a liberal so I am not following your rabbit trail.
I though the Bible said that he who is spiritual judgeth all things.
It does, but that is apparently not applicable to the Duggars.
I’m still trying to figure out the rules of this conversation. Apparently it is fair game to accuse those disgusted with the Duggars of all manner of filthiness, but if you point out anything about the actual Duggars themselves, you are judging immodestly.
Or something like that.
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