MaxxBot posted:

The "hulking brutes" were like 14 years old, I thought conservatives were supposed to be manly tough guys, not terrified of children.

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Duck Dynasty reality star Jep Robertson revealed that he was sexually molested as an adolescent.

In an interview with ET Online, Robertson said he was six when a female high school student began sexually molesting him on the school bus.

"I was 6, and it was on a school bus and it was an older girl," Robertson said. "Back then the high school students would ride on the same bus as the grade school. There was this girl there that was just real mean ... I don't know, but it was a lot of things [that] took place — scary stuff. It was tough."

Robertson and his wife, Jessica Robertson, co-wrote a book, The Good, the Bad, and the Grace of God: What Honesty and Pain Taught Us About Faith, Family, and Forgiveness, set for release June 23 in which he describes the incidents that took place.

"An older girl started sitting next to me. She seemed sweet at first. She'd come sit beside me, like a motherly figure almost. I remember her being sweet and taking care of me. I liked to sit in the back so she'd come sit with me," Robertson wrote in the book.

"After a while the girl started doing strange things. She'd take my hands and push them up under her shirt and tell me I was tickling her. Then she started making me pull down my pants. It was awkward. I didn't know what was going on, but I knew something wasn't right," the story continues in the book.

Jep said that he didn't want to go to school and "had a lot of absences" in response to being touched. "My mom always thought I was sick and there was definitely other reasons I didn't want to go to school. I think for a while I just tried to bury it so deep that I kind of forgot about it for a while. I think God put that on me for meeting someone like [my wife] Jessica who went through some hard times herself, and I think it made our relationship stronger once we talked about it."

The 37-year-old said that he couldn't discuss the molestations with his parents because he was embarrassed.

Goatman Sacks posted:

Good lord Mark Levin was going for the gold medal in dogwhistle racism today. He said the officer drew his gun because two, and I quote, "Hulking brutes" were closing in on him. You could hear through the radio that he really wanted to say "giant buck n------".

computer parts posted:

Another conservative TV personality has admitted to be molested.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/duck-dynastys-jep-robertson-reveals-801444?facebook_20150609

big mean giraffe posted:

Can't wait to see how Fox blames liberals for this.

big mean giraffe posted:

Can't wait to see how Fox blames liberals for this.

Knight posted:

I wonder how many decades of damage control it's going to take before Muslims vote R again in any significant numbers.

Phone posted:

Probably need to go out to centuries for a realistic scale.

It's incredibly difficult to figure out what conservatives' values really are because they change on a whim depending on the scenario and current atmospheric pressure. For example, the Norquist Blood Pact being at odds with Norquist being a secret ISIS member because of his wife.

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

Dapper_Swindler posted:

drat, wouldnt surprise me. whats he say in the clip?

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

Defending the cop of course. The larger point though is that Fox, and this case Kelly, are somewhat...selective in who's background they're interested in.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

he loving threw a young girl to the ground and pulled a gun on bunch of unarmed teenage girls and boys. how the gently caress do they justify that.

beatlegs posted:

Oh Megyn....even the police chief said the guy was completely unhinged & out of control.

computer parts posted:

Another conservative TV personality has admitted to be molested.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/duck-dynastys-jep-robertson-reveals-801444?facebook_20150609

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MaxxBot posted:

The "hulking brutes" were like 14 years old, I thought conservatives were supposed to be manly tough guys, not terrified of children.

Deep Hurting posted:

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Deep Hurting posted:

Yeah, that was definitely in poor taste. I apologize.

It does, however, seem awfully convenient that he's bringing this up at the exact same time another member of the Right Wing Reality Television family is under attack for sheltering a child molester almost as if this was fast-tracked to either exploit the "buzz" around the topic (of child molestation), and/or blunt the criticism both of which would be profoundly disgusting, and neither of which seems all that unlikely.

It's only touched on a bit in the linked article, but I also overheard him taking the opportunity to more or less declare solidarity with the Duggars, and complain about the media's treatment of them, citing the reaction to his (father's? grandpa's? I don't remember how exactly they're related) various horribly racist and violently homophobic public rants. Considering his own experiences, I just can't wrap my head around that. Like, after what you've been through, you're siding with the child molester and the parents whose willful negligence allowed his molesting to continue, instead of their critics??

It's not my place to say whether or not there are better ways for him to deal with this that don't involve a public spectacle and yet another cheap opportunity to hock landfiller with his face on it. But even if putting it out there publicly were the best way for him to cope, and something from which audiences might benefit as well, NOW seems like just about the worst timing possible, like if a Fox affiliate's response to 9/11 had been to take advantage of all the talk about the World Trade Center by purposefully rebroadcasting The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson immediately upon resumption of regular programming.

Deep Hurting posted:

Yeah, that was definitely in poor taste. I apologize.

It does, however, seem awfully convenient that he's bringing this up at the exact same time another member of the Right Wing Reality Television family is under attack for sheltering a child molester – almost as if this was fast-tracked to either exploit the "buzz" around the topic (of child molestation), and/or blunt the criticism–both of which would be profoundly disgusting, and neither of which seems all that unlikely.

It's only touched on a bit in the linked article, but I also overheard him taking the opportunity to more or less declare solidarity with the Duggars, and complain about the media's treatment of them, citing the reaction to his (father's? grandpa's? I don't remember how exactly they're related) various horribly racist and violently homophobic public rants. Considering his own experiences, I just can't wrap my head around that. Like, after what you've been through, you're siding with the child molester and the parents whose willful negligence allowed his molesting to continue, instead of their critics??

It's not my place to say whether or not there are better ways for him to deal with this that don't involve a public spectacle and yet another cheap opportunity to hock landfiller with his face on it. But even if putting it out there publicly were the best way for him to cope, and something from which audiences might benefit as well, NOW seems like just about the worst timing possible, like if a Fox affiliate's response to 9/11 had been to take advantage of all the talk about the World Trade Center by purposefully rebroadcasting The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson immediately upon resumption of regular programming.

Nonsense posted:

What prevents child abuse from being a capital crime?

Obdicut posted:

The death penalty is really stupid and broadening it is dumb.

Nonsense posted:

What prevents child abuse from being a capital crime?

Dapper_Swindler posted:

drat, wouldnt surprise me. whats he say in the clip?

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

Von Sloneker posted:

He and his festive grass thank you.

twistedmentat posted:

I want this guy to become the next Cliven Bundy.

"I'm just trying to defend my neighborhood. Thank god for the police showing up in time. Now let me tell you how all gays are pedophiles..."

He's how I picture Foxnews and Freep posters.

Nonsense posted:

It's going absolutely no where though. I agree it has been abused, but people are really in favor of it.

Azuth0667 posted:

When did Frankenstine's monster become morbidly obese and grow two additional chins?