Sorry, Ya'll. I gotta do it. The greatest internet image EVER.

[PBS Poll-435]

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Are those the Phelps children I was reading about earlier on DU?

I'm going to hell.
I already know that.

:evilgrin:

[itsrobert]

2. Not cool

Leave the girl out of it.

[reggie the dog]

22. isn't that girl mentally handicapped?

what is the point of showing a mentally handicapped girl crying and holding a doll in order to make fun of the parents? seriously

[PassingFair]

35. I don't think so.

Why do you think that?
I've never read anything to that effect.

[Bunny]

40. No, she's not mentally handicapped.

[leftstreet]

3. Is that the fetus he brought home that she's holding?

:hide:

[cliffordu]

4. Seriously cool image. In a disturbing 666 kind of way.

That is the sickest fucking family I have ever seen.

And I used to work with families of multigenerational illiterate, addicted, violence freaks.

[PBS Poll-435]

7. The matching doll is just classic.

Santorum '14!



:P

[cliffordu]

8. YEP!!!

[ima_sinnic]

23. I'd wager it's an American Girl doll

the latest MUST HAVE, esp. with custom-made matching outfits.

[gkhouston]

38. Yup. Looks like she's holding a Kit doll, although the plaid dress makes me

think of some other character. I don't remember all their names. A couple of years ago, my mother-in-law was hell-bent on buying an American Girl doll for my daughter and since my DH was talking about bobbing her long hair I suggested Kit. I think most of those dolls must be purchased by grandmas, just like a lot of Build-a-Bears.

[csziggy]

5. Dysfunctional American Family Values! n/t

[Shiver]

6. I must be missing something.

I don't know who these people are, or why there's a big pile of crap dumped behind a podium...

[Webster Green]

9. That was their reaction to finding out that dad was fucking the family dog.

It really freaked them out.

Creepy.

[kenny blankenship]

10. I want that on a T Shirt!

[PBS Poll-435]

14. I want that on a blimp.

Just so sad.

[Bozita]

15. I was thinking of maybe something in a mural. Maybe in a church.

Maybe in EVERY church!

[JVS]

11. Do you have the version where the girl's face has been replaced with a happy face.

Someone created it because there were people angry about this pic being posted as a sticky.

[yurbud]

12. they're afraid they'll never see their human family again.

[hlthe2b]

13. I know that pic is real, but damn, if that doesn't look like a parody

Something from the Onion. Geebus, That family is screwed up.

[Marie Marie]

16. OMG You people are in rare form tonight

And for that, I thank you. Boo boo faces on the girls and the boy looks like he's been hypnotized. Oh wait, he has. That's how they will get the next generation of republican candidates (or Fox pundits). Thank you so much for sharing this photo.

[RandomThoughts]

17. Hypnosis is moving of the spiritual.

Many think it is about the person themselves, actually it opens doors to bring spiritual into people, many times for worse.

Tough to break without understanding it, but it requires the open door of accepting it, then the person doing it putting something into the person.

Stripping out things like that is not difficult. Find a feeling that feels wrong, in your mind, it feels sticky or icky, then imagine a net going through your mind pulling out the parts that are not part of what you are, and what it is stuck to. Like cleaning a swimming pool with a net.

run it through your mind looking for anything that is not part of what you know you are, and pull it out.


Not difficult to do, just have to understand that 'hypnosis' is not bringing out part of a person, but adding to a person.

They do that stuff in many areas to many people in society. And it does not have to be known, just accepted, so there are many forms that people use to do those things. Many areas of 'treatment' have some that use those methods on people. And many in strife, have had some groups do that stuff to them.

Then after that, add an override into yourself, that moves any 'trigger' to something harmless like a twitch.

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Don't laugh.

The American people are just stupid enough to elect this piece of shit again.

[solara]

19. Every time I see this picture I imagine they are all thinking about what they know

is coming when they get home. Daddy doesn't like to lose

:scared:

[JohnnyRingo]

20. The Addams Family v2.0

They're creepy and they're Christian, a mysterious affliction....
They're altogether fiction, the Santorum fam-i-ly.

[Arugula Latte]

32. Ha ha!

:thumbsup:

[Rex]

21. "And please make daddy stop humping rover."

[Withywindle]

24. So fucking nasty.

I feel for the kids, though.

I wish them all the best in the future as they grow up--and I want "the best" to involve death metal, the Peace Corps, lots of tattoos and piercings, and at least one coming-out experience (and with a really hot sex life to follow).

[barbtries]

25. unrecced

cause the little girl. it's not her fault he's her father.

[blueamy66]

26. But it's the girl's fault

that she went out into public dressed like that.

[Occulus]

27. It IS his fault she's onstage, what the fuck is THAT about

Rec'd to counter your unrec

[barbtries]

30. i'm all for HIS public humiliation

just not hers.

[gkhouston]

36. +1000. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

28. What always gets me about that picture is the boy

It's that "I have no will to live" death stare.

[TheCowsCameHome]

29. He looks like a cardboard cutout. n/t

[gkhouston]

37. Has anyone seen video of this? I was wondering if someone had just been

taking photos--a lot of bright flashes might account both for the girl's crying and the boy's dazed stare.

[blondeatlast]

31. Lordy, I loathe that man--but that poor girl, caught in an uncontrollable emotional moment

with a distorted camera lens in a situation not of her making--and I doubt that she chose that attire, either.

I know my opinion on this is unpopular (understatement of the decade, I imagine), but none of us would look too good under those conditions.

Oh, and--fuck Rick Santorum with a disembodied steer horn.

[upi402]

33. DU needs to send that family a sympathy card

and fund an intervention!:grouphug:

[VoteProgressive]

34. Wow, the girl is sad for her dad! Leave her alone.

[starroute]

39. There are other shots around from that same occasion

Here's one where they look almost normal -- in a slightly zombie-like way:

[Brigid]

41. How is it possible . . .

For a family to look so innocent and yet so creepy at the same time.

As for the doll, I visited the American Girl store in Chicago last November. They are adorable; too bad my nieces are both too old for dolls.

[Ikonoklast]

42. Maybe it's the resemblance to something else...