Comments on: Girl Says Dad Died In Iraq To Win Contest

Mom Helped 6-Year-Old Make Up Lie About Her Father's Death To Win Hannah Montana Tickets

[rochellerdk]

This is a crying shame.

The company should have automatically taken away the girl''s concert tickets and given them to another contestant or perhaps the daughter of a soldier who really was killed in Iraq. Even the lying mother and daughter could not oppose it without looking like scum.

The mother should be ASHAMED of herself. This reminds me of the case several months ago, where a young teenager hung herself and died after the mother of a teen neighbor helped her daughter use the internet to pretent to be a boy and "play with the emotions of the targeted teen."

The teen hung herself after the "boy," who became her "friend," sent an email, ending the relationship abruptly.

These types of mothers are teaching their daughters to live without dignity, integrity, self respect, or respect for others.

Moreover, I would pursue criminal and/or civil charges against the mother for fraud. It is sad that future contests may have to require all contestants to certify that their stories/essays are true.

Corrupt parents should be very careful about what they teach their children because what goes around comes around. I hope they never have to visit their daughters in prison one day (or at their grave sites)because the girls thought they "needed to do whatever it took to win."

[barbaraf4]

"We did whatever we could do to win."

What a powerful lesson to teach a 6 year old.

[linfinster]

"We did whatever we could do to win."

Yes hon, it''s OK to deceive and lie to get what you want ... and hold your head up high when they''re doing that makeover! You should be proud of your accomplishments!!

Nominate this woman for scumbag of the year! There''s plenty of fellow nominees.

I can''t imagine the promoter''s expected people to lie

[mayaderen-2009]

How sad that a mother is teaching her 6 year old to lie - and for what? A silly concert and a "blonde Hanna Montana wig"? Pathetic.

[andrew_693]

If she can find a way to confuse Australia with Austria she could become the next republican candidate for presidency, but in case of failure she can always misspell potato and become vice president of the retards party.

[andrew_693]

Heck, with all the lying she could be a reporter for fox news. Or maybe an expert on weapons of mass destruction, they deceived the entire country. I know maybe she can be a republican senator, the only thing though is that she would have to confess being gay and come out of the closet later on, like the rest of the christian conservatives.

[closethippy1]

2) If this little girl''''s essay was a powerful as that "Camusesque" opening, she deserves a contract from a publisher.
Posted by Nancy_Naive

Goodness, what brains. Care to go out for some coffee?

[hereticzero-2009]

What is a Hannah Montana?

[jyu1915]

This reminds me of the case of that woman in Texas who attempted to hire a hitman to off the mother of her daughter''s rival for the cheerleading squad so that her daughter''s rival would be so upset that she would drop out of the cheerleading competition.

[bradshaw53]

"It''s not a lie if you believe it." (George)
An essay is an essay. Who said it had to be true?

[formrusmcsgt]

"We did the essay and that''s what we did to win," Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. "We did whatever we could do to win."

If the mother is teaching a 6 year-old that it''s alright to lie to win, we can only imagine where the girl will end up.....

[bb19631]

You know damm well it was the mother''s idea. At 6 yrs. old, the mother should be setting an example of honesty not desepsion. The tickets should go to the runner up. That is if her story checks out!!

[g-gfather]

She lied to get what she wanted.
No one died.
Her dead soldier was make-believe.

Mr. Bush.

[jetranger7]

Well this just goes to show that AMERICA has just gone to hell in a hand basket, geshhhhhh !!!!!!!

[brianbwb-2009]

The Bush klan profited from lies about Iraq, so why shouldn''t this girl?