Liberal Media Gawk at 'Horror' of Duggar's 20th Pregnancy
The TLC show "19 Kids and Counting" chronicles the daily activities of a loving, responsible Arkansas family of two parents and 19 children navigating their way through life with large clan. But last week, when Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar announced they are expecting their 20th child in April, the media reaction was far from joyous.
They called it a "Horror." They suggested Michelle has a "uterus like a clown car." They warned the Duggers, "Don't test fate" with their "ever-expanding herd."
"We are a pro-choice country, and if Michelle Duggar wants to treat her uterus like a clown car that's her right," remarked celebrity gossip blogger Sonia Mansfield. "And to the people who are asking how the couple will be able to make ends meet if their reality show is ever canceled, don't fret: A couple with 20 children would make a fascinating episode of 'Hoarders’."
Citing possible health risks to mother and baby, and the potential lack of emotional support for 20 children, The Witchita Falls, Texas Times Record News asked, "In the end, is it wise for the Duggars to have another baby just because they can?"
Some experts even pontificated on the state of Michelle Duggar's uterus at 45 and 19 kids later. "That uterus can't have any spring left in it!" said Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who then compared Mrs. Duggar's uterus to a water balloon on NBC's "Today" on Nov. 9.
The Hollywood Reporter said the Duggars were, "adding to their brood," as though the children were animals. THR also included comments from readers and tweeters. 'Disgusting. ' 'Insane.' 'Winner of the Uterus Olympics.'
But the Hollywood Reporter was one of the few outlets that gave a voice to those who support the Duggars.
"I think they are a wonderful family - they are doing a great job raising loving, responsible children - which the world needs more of to balance the mindless fatherless children of today who are destroying our society," said a supportive THR reader. "If more good parents had children this word [sic] would be in a better place."
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"We are a pro-choice country"??
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 6:11pm.
What country is that?
The "country" of San Francisco?
Because the United States is a pro-life country, not a pro-murdering-developing-children country like the sovereign nation of San Francisco.
--Mike
Free choice?
Submitted by dr-go on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 6:18pm.
Not if we let the media decide for us which is exactly what has created the mindlessness of the self labelled 99%.
Are we paying for them with our tax dollars? No?
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 6:25pm.
THEN SHUT THE HELL UP.
Do I think it's "odd"? YES - VERY. Is it a choice I would make? NO. But it's THEIRS TO MAKE.
If they expected the tax payer to support every baby they had, then there could be an argument made that incentives need to be put into our welfare laws to discourage the practice, but if these people are self-supporting, it's none of our damned business.
And that makes all the difference...
Submitted by taznar on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:54am.
Liberals seem to think a single mother on welfare has every "right" to have 5, 6, 7 or however many children she wants, and taxpayers have a "responsibility" to support her "right".
But a family having so many children and supporting them on their own? Somehow they think that's a problem.
Feminist Rage At The Duggars
Submitted by Blue Collar Todd on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 6:50pm.
Check out these comments at a feminist blog attacking the Duggars.
http://bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/11/feminist-rage-against-the-duggar...
Hate.
Thanks,
Submitted by texasborngranny on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:43pm.
but I don't even want to add 1 to their 'counter'.
Feminist have done far more damage to women, than they have good.
BTJM
Only to a warped liberal mind
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 7:34pm.
Only to a warped liberal mind is a child a "horror". Not when they throw baby bodies in a trash can.
Twisted and evil.
I think they are bats crazy,
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:00pm.
I think they are bats crazy, but I don't want 20 kids. My mom came from a family of 11. Big families are hard to do, ya gotta be wired that way. I aint wired for 20, I have enough trouble with 3 and they are grown.
I get panicky. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:46pm.
. . . when I watch the Duggars. The thought of having that many kids scares me. But theirs are the most disciplined children I've seen. And Jim Bob and Michelle don't rely on the government. She home schools her children and they seem to be accomplished musicians.
Don't these liberal idiots realize the Duggars are, in a sense, "pro choice"? They made the choice to have children and not abort them. . .
It's never been about pro-choice
Submitted by djm159 on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 11:33pm.
It has always been pro-abortion, it has never been pro-choice. If you are pro-choice the left condemns and berates you. You can have no opinion or lifestyle other than what they decide. If the Duggars want to have 30 children, that's none of my business, they support them, i don't; but, when an entitlement mindset individual on the government dime has 9 children that I support with my taxes that is my business and they should be sterilized after the first two. The Duggars are a self supporting, loving family and the left hates it. To gain acceptance from the left you first must have 10 children, all with different last names and be unable to support any of them so that you are totally dependent on Uncle Sam for your basic survival then it's acceptable. Isn't that sort of slavery - do what Massa' says or you don't eat. Same principle. Love that DNC plantation.
Saw You Laugh
Submitted by IrateNate on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 10:20pm.
Come on, I mean, the "clown car" reference was a pretty good line...
I actually watch their show
Submitted by hannajo on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:58am.
I actually watch their show regularly. And every person on TV I've heard give an opinion of them obviously doesn't watch it. A lot seem to have never seen even one episode. I've heard people say there's no way these kids get enough attention, there's no way a family can take care of so many kids, and they're destroying the planet by simply having lots of kids. They have one of the few reality shows without drama, fighting, drunkenness, divorces. But they're SUCH HORRIBLE, SELFISH PEOPLE (sarc).
Maybe I'm a closet lib
Submitted by katiejane on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:01pm.
but I do find the Duggars brood excessive. I understand they don't suck up taxpayer resources but I imagine that they claim all those kids as tax exemptions so in a way they are being unerwritten by the govt.
I understand that the kids are well behaved, I understand it really isn't anyone's business but theirs. However I do wonder how much attention the children actually get from their parents vice their siblings. I also do wonder though who paid for all that NICU care provided to the last little girl child.
Having said that I can not believe it is good for the mother to stress her body & her female organs with 20 pregnancies. People used to have big families partially because child mortality was higher and they also "needed" hands to help support the family. Since I feel what they are doing is breeding I do not watch their program.
Comments from a vacuum....
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 3:17pm.
Let's see, what in particular do I not pay any attention to, look at, read about or have any truly data-informed viewpoint about, for which I can make authoritative and highly speculative conjecture?
Hmm....let me see now....I'm sure there's something.
I know!
I'm positively, absolutely beyond any shadow of doubt convinced that there are no absolutes! Yeah, that's it!!
...except perhaps for that statement...????
Dang, I thought I had something there...
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
I'm waiting for some Lib to
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 5:56pm.
I'm waiting for some Lib to write/speak about the story of Groucho Marx, his cigar, and Mrs. Story (a mother of twenty children)... which is a myth, but when does that stop the Left from believing in unicorns, skittle rainbows, and Obama.