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

[rohink-2009]

justsane and nmsuip, I agree completely with both of your posts. We live in an age of it''s not my fault. Thankfully I was not raised that way.

[justsane-2009]

nmsuip--interesting that you brought up the comparison. i have posted on both these issues this week (far more than i like to admit), and when i tried to figure out why i felt so strongly about them, the answer that i came to was that they both have to do with personal responsibility and the code of conduct that goes with it. a mother should not teach her child that fabricating a false story to win a contest is acceptable. a group of young men should know better than to mess around with a wild animal, and further should respect the rules of any establishment that they are guests of, whether they paid for entry or not.

it has been disheartening to see how many people seem to fail to grasp those simple truths.

[robstrck]

Torturing it, in a sense, genetically.

bucktooth99,

What the hell are you talking about? How is it torturing them "genetically"? Rohink was right, you should have spent your money on fixing your teeth. It surely was wasted on your education.

[robstrck]

Posted by Nancy_Naive a
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Do you ever have anything constructive to add, or are you too busy trying to be clever?

mnsuip,

Good post.

[nmsuip]

Interesting times we live in!

From KDFW News:

"When [contest organizer Robin Caulfield] asked me if this [essay] was true, I told her no," Ceballos said. "We never said this was a true story. We do essays all the time. My daughter does essays at school all the time. It never did say it had to be true, but [Robin] said, ''That''s what we expected.''"

From a different story- the lawsuits that are likely to result from the tiger maulings at the San Francisco Zoo (CBS News):

"Inevitably, there are going to be lawsuits filed," Little said. "Even if they provoked the tiger, a reasonable person would believe that the tiger could not escape. That''s what you count on when you go to the zoo. You count on the idea that the animals cannot reach you."

So apparently in the U.S. today, it is not "reasonable" to assume:

1. You''re supposed to tell the truth.

2. You shouldn''t screw around with a 350 lb. tiger.

The absurdity is that we now have to specify such things.

[hypnotoad72]

Oh, that''s charming. NOT. Lying to see some modern day pop star whose past hasn''t been revealed yet? This is the 21st century, how many girls truly are pure?! They weren''t in 1987...

Bush didn''t cause this problem BTW. Neither did Clinton. If they tried to intervene with our degenerate media (that incidentally profits big-time by promoting sleeze in case anybody hadn''t noticed), everybody would whine "Keep government out of things, waaaaaaaaaaah!"

[erasmus6]

"Don''''t worry folks, when Bush is out of office and a Democrat is elected, we will regain our morality." posted by rohink

That depends on which Democrat you vote in.:)

[slackersmom]

From the Dallas Morning News (Caulfield is w/ Libby Lu, Ceballos is the mother of the child):

"Officials took the essay, which included no details about the father or his death, at face value and performed no background checks, Ms. Caulfield said. Ms. Ceballos told company officials that the girl''s father, Army Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, had died in a roadside bombing April 17 in Iraq, Ms. Caulfield said. But Department of Defense records show that no one by the name Jonathon Menjivar has died in Iraq."

[rohink-2009]

bucktooth99

How sad for you.

[rohink-2009]

Don''t worry folks, when Bush is out of office and a Democrat is elected, we will regain our morality.