So although Fox News had up until recently pretty much covered up the allegations that Josh Duggar the oldest son of the Conservative Christian Family that stars on the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting had molested 4 girls, including 3 of is sisters - one of whom was only 5 years-old - beginning when he himself was 14 years old... Megyn Kelly eventually decided to finally do a softball interview with the Duggar Parents.
And in which the Duggar's told multiple lies and half-truths, particular about the release of police records.
According to In Touch, multiple statements made by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar during the hour-long interview could have been easily disproved on air if Fox researchers had done their homework and read the documents and statements that were publicly available before Kelly conducted her interview.Additionally the fact of the matter here isn't just that Josh may have committed a criminal act, it's that he apparently did so repeatedly, with the knowledge of his parents and that rather than report this to authorities they covered it up for years.According to Jim Bob Duggar, “This information was released illegally,” with the couple accusing Springdale police chief Kathy O’Kelley of possibly taking “a bribe” and having “an agenda.”
As In Touch notes, the file was obtained legally, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette already writing that claims otherwise are “disputed by the law enforcement agencies involved, the Arkansas Press Association and attorneys with expertise in public-document cases involving the state’s Freedom of Information Act.”
While Duggar maintained that, as parents, he and his wife were not legally “mandated” to report their son’s transgressions, Michael Johnson, a former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, disagreed, saying, “It is possible that investigators looking into this case could have cited the parents Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar with Arkansas Code 5-27-221 ‘Permitting Abuse of a Minor.’Having once learned of the behavior, they recklessly allowed it to continue.”This piece of fluffery has apparently caused Conservatives, led by none other than Bristol and Mama Grizzbear Sarah Palin to lash out in anger and rage - at "Liberals" who apparently get a special pass by the media and also "Spit on our Troops Graves" and something, something, Lena Dunham, something....
How any of that rationalizes or justifies the Duggar's letting their own daughters remain at risk without taking any appropriate action to defend them - is far beyond me.
Yet I will attempt to address that subject over the flip.