Duggars will run to Faux News for first interview.

[RandySF]

he famously conservative Duggars seemed to be models of wholesome family life, but son Josh was hiding a dark past: He allegedly molested five young girls as a teen. Subscribe now for an inside look at the Duggars' dark family secrets, only in PEOPLE.

Nearly nine days after the Duggar family responded to allegations that Josh Duggar has molested five underage girls when he was a teenager, the reality TV family announced they would be sitting down with Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly for an exclusive interview.

"Next week we will sit down with Megyn Kelly on Fox News to share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family twelve years ago, the tears we all shed and the forgiveness that was given," Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar wrote in a statement. "We appreciate the outpouring of love and prayers for our family at this time."

In a separate press release, Fox News announced that the interview would air during The Kelly File on Wednesday, June 3, at 9 p.m. ET. Additional portions will also air during a one-hour special on Friday, June 5, at 9 p.m. ET.


http://www.people.com/article/duggars-interview-post-molestation-scandal

[Hoppy]

1. Let's focus on the most important part of the article: They have been forgiven.

So now, we can all watch fox and be spiritually uplifted.

[workinclasszero]

8. Yes Josh has been forgiven by the fux faithful

So he and his liar parents can continue to go around the country condemning Trans and Gay people to the fires of hell, all in the name of "protecting the children"

[Hoppy]

25. Better than that, he was forgiven by the Huckster.

[FlatBaroque]

13. If by spiritually uplifted

you mean vomiting uncontrollably, then yes.

[shenmue]

2. Figures

[KarenS]

3. They are showboats for sure,,,,

as well as a few other things I can think of.



Heck, I'm not even watching TLC anymore because of all of this.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. What your going to see is

a massive spin operation by the RNC,Fake Noise,Hobby Lobby,Domino' s,and most of Monied Backstabbers. Notice posts yesterday that something what was afoot,lots of phony Bible interpretations that blame the victim an what happens within a family is just plain none of your business. And,State a d local laws are secondary to their Religious teachings,cause they know best how to raise their children. You know damn well this issue will have a major quake in the so called Republican Base.

[durablend]

19. The important thing to take out of this

The target (Fox) audience will be told exactly what they want to hear out of it.

[Wellstone ruled]

22. We have been living Orwell's 1984

since Nixon. Only thing is,just different versions,depending on what incident the Monied Elite needed cover for. Amazing how many people believe all the shit on Fake Noise as fact. Deal with this daily and it does get old in a millisecond.

[Contrary1]

5. Will they be announcing the spin off?

Jill And Jessa May Get Their Own Show.

"...However, it appears TLC doesn’t want to get rid of the successful brand. “They want the family to be in the TLC family in some way shape or form and only cut ties with Josh,” a source recently told Hollywood Life. “They are scared of the backlash from the religious contingent that watches and supports the show"

http://www.ibtimes.com/will-19-kids-counting-get-spin-after-josh-duggar-controversy-jill-jessa-may-get-their-1940660

[CanonRay]

29. "scared of the backlash from the religious contingent that watches and supports the show"

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. They went after this lunatic audience share, and now they are stuck with the pervs.

[HassleCat]

6. Forgiveness

"We forgave ourselves. What a courageous thing that was to do for each other. We also forgave our daughters for enticing our son. And we forgave those other girls for enticing Josh with their short skirts and high heels. And we prayed for and received the forgiveness of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who is willing to forgive whatever we do to other people, as long as we are truly repentant and give Him a nice cash donation. There is just so much forgiveness going on here, and we feel so blessed that we just have to go on national TV and share it with you all."

[gvstn]

11. Well honestly if those other girls were dressed like this

with these "eye traps" that could draw Josh's eye away from their face, how could he resist those sinful urges?

[HassleCat]

14. Yes, I see

I wish you would not post such salacious material. Now I find it necessary to retire to a private area and take care of my urges. Are you an agent of Satan?

[gvstn]

15. I apologize!

If I was better at Photoshop, I would have removed number 4. That really doesn't belong on a family forum.

Sadly, I think there are some teenage fundamentalist homeschoolers who would do better on this homework assignment than me. I can only find about 3 eye traps.

[Exilednight]

7. "the pain we walked though" seriously? What about the pain their

Victims walked through?

[workinclasszero]

9. Let the whole world see how far the religious reich wing will go to protect their own

Even child molesting...just DAMN!

Even child molesting is OK if you mouth the right republican cultist HS!

These right wing cultists have no shame and they are a real and present danger to children obviously!

[gratuitous]

10. I call this a possibly good thing

While I share the general opinion of Fox with the other folks here, I think Megyn Kelly might actually conduct a decent interview with a couple of hard questions. Overall it will probably be a whitewash, but Kelly might buttonhole them a time or two to have to face some of the more unpleasant truths the Duggars appear to be running away from.

[calimary]

17. Well, as broken clocks go...

she's probably their best example. In the same way that, SOMETIMES, you can also get a decent probing question out of chris wallace over there, too. But it's the exception, NOT the rule. And I still don't trust her. Believe me, she KNOWS who it is - who's paying for her mascara and facial contour powder (that always makes her look like Nixon did with his perennial five-o'clock-shadow) and all those nice skimpy tops and short tight skirts and stiletto heels she wears on camera. She knows who butters her bread. She's NEVER going to stray too far off the reservation in some quest to appear like an objective journalist.

I would LOVE for someone, anyone, from anywhere, ON anywhere, to ask about the whole forgiveness thing. You're forgiven? You believe in that, I'm sure. You believe in God. You believe in Jesus. You believe that you - that we all - were born forgiven by the suffering Christ on the Cross long ago. But if you believe that, does that somehow make it okay to do whatever the heck you feel like doing, even if it's wrong - because you believe you're already forgiven? So then, whatever sin you commit is already excused? And you have already been issued a free pass? Please explain.

She won't. But it needs to be asked. These folks who seek to smear their religion all over our faces and shove it up our asses and down our throats 24/7/365 need to be asked this. They need to be confronted by this and they need to try to explain it. They need to be put on the spot about this. I'll bet some of 'em have never even given it a thought.

[durablend]

18. LOL...I think wiffleball might even be going too far

Expect lots of blaming of the "liberal media"and "immoral left". Just a matter of who does it...the Duggars or Megyn herself.

[tavernier]

20. Yes. She is a trusted professional.

Well, I ALMOST got through that with a straight face!!

[libdem4life]

12. PBS must have turned them down.

[calimary]

16. The Rude Pundit summed it up for me awhile ago:

"Well fuck us all with a surprise stick."

[susanna]

26. This. Exactly. n/t

[pokerfan]

21. conservative family values

[Dirty Socialist]

23. Pure Damage Control

They are morally superior to you until they fuck up. Then the faucet of tears runs. Tammy Faye Baker anyone?

[vankuria]

24. Well of course

and they'll be asked soft ball questions, Mrs. Duggar will shed a few tears and most of the conversation will be about forgiveness...and the cash cow that supports them will start right back up.

[Kalidurga]

27. I remember the good old days when the GOP was the Greedy Old Pigs...

Now they are the Groping Old Perverts.

[rurallib]

28. "Duggars seemed to be models of wholesome family life"

boy that's some fucked up perception that would view these creeps as wholesome even before the Josh outing.

[rock]

30. At last we'll get the truth!

Not really. It'll all be lies, but at least they'll be fair and balanced lies.

[mstinamotorcity2]

31. Home is Home.

Where else would they go???

[Tom Ripley]

32. Will Kelly be dressed modestly for her fluffer assignent with the fecundamentalist Duggars?

[MohRokTah]

33. TLC is gonna get Limbaughed HARD

They're already bleeding advertisers and they are in a Catch-22. They don't drop the Duggars and their advertisers feel backlash from most sane people. They drop the Duggars and they feel backlash from the religiously insane people they decided to cater to years ago and have no audience.