Okay, pop quiz. Which show sounds like the biggest pile of awful?
1) Cliven Bundy special where the Nevada rancher discusses how to settle debt relief in a responsible, non-violent fashion?
2) Daniel Pantaleo and Darren Wilson host joint show on improving police outreach to minority communities.
3) The Duggar family hosts a show on counseling sex abuse survivors.
Well, they're all pretty awful. But one is true! Number three. Yes, that's right, the Duggars are pitching a show on counseling sex abuse survivors.
Their new idea? I shit you not, Jim Bob and Michelle DuGgar want to counsel sex abuse victims. You know, like their own kids, who were sexually abused by another one of their kids. Which they, of course, covered up.Unbelievable, right? But hell, we live in a world where Donald Trump leads in the polls so I'm just not surprised anymore. Robyn Pennacchia is far more erudite than I am when it comes to this ridiculous news.The show would be a followup to an upcoming TLC documentary special about child abuse titled “Breaking the Silence,” which will feature Jill and Jessa Duggar talking about their own childhood abuse at the hands of their brother Josh.
How would this even go? What sort of counseling would they provide? Would they tell them to just forget about it so long as their abuser had asked for God’s forgiveness? Because that is literally the way they handled things in their own family, and I am pretty sure that technique is not recommended by any actual mental health professionals.Why the hell are the Duggars choosing to keep their family in the spotlight despite the humiliating scandal and the scarring way their daughters were forced to relive abuse in front of TV cameras? Pennacchia has a pretty good idea.
Surprise, surprise–the Duggars are pitching a new show! Why? Because they decided to have 19 kids, 11 of whom are under the age of 18, and probably can’t support them otherwise.Yup.
You know, for people who are insisting that Planned Parenthood is the real evil in the world, they sure are paying for their insistence in monkeying with unmanaged fertility. My dear Duggars, a few little latex balloons ten years ago and you guys wouldn't be in this position of prostituting out your daughters to the TV viewing audience for the sake of the extra dough.
