Right on Pacer! It is indeed the plight of the children which is the issue here. As for the publicity-seeking parents, I wanted to puke when I looked at their website. And for NBC and the TODAY show to continue to present the cutesy, fawning pieces about this family is irresponsible journalism of the highest order.

Assuming that we're talking about the left-right axis that has communism on one end and fascism on the other*, then your claim doesn't make sense. As 'lefty' as you get is in 'religion is the opiate of the people' territory. A long way in!

*Of course, communism and fascism are both totalitarian systems, so that 'axis' is as artificial as most other attempts to pigeonhole people and their views.

Correct...up to a point that you yourself bring up in the second half of this sentence:



By going on news programs and their "crappy reality show," they and their producers conclude that we are interested...not only putting the information in front of the public, but presenting it as a form of entertainment. Thus, they do make it people's business (in the case of the producers, literally their business) how many kids they have, with a vested interest in continuing to increase the already unwieldy size of their immediate family to the potential (likely?) detriment of the offspring, for the purpose of remaining in the public eye.

And yet another good reason that my TV is only used for DVD's.

In fairness, there's some good stuff to be found on TV, onan. But, as the saying goes, there's a good reason it's called a "medium"...because very little on tv is rare or well done.

Very well said Rod!

Never heard of them - thank goodness I am in the UK!!

They even have a family website. But I suggest you avoid it.

I totally agree its rediculous, But...... they as much as it pains me to admit this. Support their massive brood themselves. They own and operate several buisnesses. A car lot, a motel I think and several others.
Is it unfirtunate for the women and children yes, but you can refuse to support them. One don't watch the show, Two don't frequent their buisnesses.
And keep in mind there is Alot of jacking going on there. No no to sex till your married........leads to lots of
And yes I checked it asinine was spelled correctly. Also keep in mind they live in rural Arkansas where things like this are more readaly accepted. oddly thought his parents didn't have that many kids I think.

Actually, the "lefty" Christian is correct. The core values of the philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth and his immediate followers is incredibly socialist, collective and non-worldly. The problem with communism is that is just a form of capitalism in another guise. The problem with organized religion is it tends to corruption and brainwashing. However...I am happy to wear the labels of "socialist" and "Christian"... along with "Cock sucking, arse pounding, dick wanking queer"

Then we're not talking about the left-right axis that has communism on one end and fascism on the other!

Funny thing about totalitarian regimes - they are all exactly the same. Fascist and communist had more in common than not. Talking about a left/right axis is somewhat redundant when comparing the historical or current regimes of Burma, El Salvador, North Korea and Romanis.

Historically, Americans have generally not been ideologically driven in the national Republican-Democrat political divide. Most Americans really have very little concept of what the terms liberalism and conservatism really mean, in a political science sense. And they CERTAINLY don't have a clue what fascism means!

As for American liberalism, Wilsonian liberalism has only the barest nodding acquaintance with FDR's New Deal liberalism. As for fascism, it is at its most fundamental level anti-liberal, but ALSO anti-conservative. And while fascism was certainly founded by right wing Italian nationalists after World War I, in its German incarnation it was, from an economic perspective, a socialist movement. After all, the so-called "Nazi" Party was the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei...the National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party.

I guess you didn't read my original post!

Kent, I'll agree they are probably bible thumpin republicans (Considering they are from Arkansas). As for only the rightwingers bein crazy enough... the things both sides do is shocking and surprising... but thats kinda the nature of the beast... everybody wants to make a name for themselves.

EVERYBODY demonizes and criticizes people for not agreeing with them. The Libs and democrats demonize Republicans for not supporting Obama, and the Conservatives and republicans criticized and demonized the Democrats for not supporting Bush.