Michelle said in her breathy, wondering, affectation of a little-girl voice, “an…. agenda???” That voice caught my attention in a major way. I live under a rock. I don’t pay much attention to reality TV. I hadn’t noticed her voice until this interview. But once I noticed it, a lot of stuff fell into place for me.
I always despised the Duggar parents, but now I actively hate them thanks to this interview they did with Megyn Kelly.
Even some folks in the right-wing Christian world are waking up to the understanding that Josh Duggar is not being straightforward, though even they don’t seem to realize that the problem isn’t just Josh but his entire wicked, dishonest religion and his revoltingly hypocritical parents. Enter the PR spin-doctoring machine.
Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of Josh Duggar and his parents does not look anything like this list.
Here’s a quick between-meals snack of three new defenses that are emerging around the Josh Duggar molestation scandal and why they fail completely.
They ache for the legitimacy of having a good reason to believe–all while having no way whatsoever to achieve it or to establish that they have one.
The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that previously hadn’t even breathed a word about the scandal are now tiptoeing into the waters with super-carefully-worded pieces about what he did, now that it’s painfully obvious that Christians as a group are talking about it. Mainly, unfortunately, they’re largely defending it.
Only one site featured the story of Josh Duggar’s pedophilia. I was surprised at which one! Maybe all the other sites’ writers are in church right now or busy praying so they didn’t get the news? For, uh, two days? Or were they all busy circling their wagons?
By now you’ve likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar, one of the older sons of the fundagelical reality-TV Duggar family, has confessed publicly to being a child molester. Worst of all, it seems clear that at least some of his victims were his own young sisters. The story gets more and more shocking with every single new detail that emerges about it. Just when I think it’s gotten as bad as it can get, I see something else. So tonight we’re going to talk about it.
Anything that takes effort to build and create can fall apart if it doesn’t get the resources it needs. Online spaces, too, can die; so can religions. The reason it’s so hard to recover from fading glory is because at that point, two things are working against the place, game, or group in question.