Duggars In The Ditch: Five Offenses And Counting
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
I will grant you that it may be a while before the uncivil schadenfreude of the whole deal recedes enough. I mean, seriously. Is there anything better than the fact that almost every Republican politician of any note has had his picture taken with admitted family-preferential child molester Josh Duggar? Or the fact that serious people within the conservative movement wanted young Josh to run for Congress? Unless, of course, it's the panoply of punchlines regarding the techniques of family research young Josh undertook prior to his job at the Family Research Council. It's time, once again, for Max Von Sydow from Hannah And Her Sisters: "If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
(No, wait. We have another entry. Mama June Shannon, another former star of The "Learning" Channel, who lost her show because one of her boyfriends molested one of her non-Honey Boo Boo daughters, is outraged that she and her infinitely more charming brood -- who never were photographed with Mike Huckabee -- got 86'd while the Duggars for the moment still have their show. There's a fine class-based point to be made here, but it sits at the bottom of a deep lagoon of pure Ick, so to hell with it. Is it too late for someone to turn The "Learning" Channel into another venue for the sale of cubic zirconia?)
Nevertheless, ya haht-less bastids, let's try to stop chuckling for a moment and consider for a moment What It All Means beyond the glorious hypocrisy of it, the tragic-but-hilarious detail of the fact that the original investigating officer is now doing eight-million years for kiddie porn, and the bumbling attempts by Dominion-holding Pa Duggar to bury the whole mess by shipping Josh off as convict labor to one of his pals who needed cheap help...
OK, let's try again. Serious up, people.
I'm sure there's a profound McLuhanesque argument to be found here about how we don't really know the people with whom we identify on our electric teevee sets, and how the very presence of the medium changes the reality of that which is being transmitted, and how because of these factors, the disillusionment resulting from the sad revelations -- And, goddamn, do I feel badly for whichever of the Duggar sisters were the actual victims here. There's no indication from any of the reports that they got any kind of help -- will be sharpened out here in the world.
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