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Meet the Terrible Porn Publisher Behind the Outing of the Duggar Abuse Story
PJ Tatler ^ | June 6, 2015 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 06/07/2015 10:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Jill Dillard: "They're used to exploiting women."

In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly that ran on Friday, two of the Duggar daughters who were victims of their brother’s inappropriate sexual touching called out the magazine that illegally released the records that not only revealed the identity of their brother Josh (who was a juvenile at the time), but also indirectly identified the victims.

Jill Dillard, the second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, told Kelly that she suspected there might be an agenda behind the story. “I mean, I know that the tabloids that released this, even have — you know, they’re used to exploiting women. They have the parent company –”

“Well, Bauer…they’re a major porn provider…” her sister Jessa Seewald interrupted.

“So I don’t know if they are — maybe their mindset, they’re just used to making objects out of women and maybe we just didn’t seem any different,” Seewald continued.

Jill and Jessa are members of the conservative Christian family that has been featured in the reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting, and the young women are spot on about the background of the company that publishes In Touch magazine.

Bauer Media Group, based in Hamburg, Germany, publishes 600 magazines, over 400 digital products, and 50 radio and TV stations around the world, including In Touch magazine, the publication that uncovered the story of the abuse in the Duggar home. They also traffic in porn — some of it Nazi-themed., as you’ll see on the next page.

The Wrap reported in 2013:

But an investigation by TheWrap has found that there is a darker side to the privately held company, including publication of at least one magazine appealing to neo-Nazis, as well as significant involvement in the distribution of pornography — including Nazi-themed porn movies.

These lend perspective to Bauer’s legal woes in the United States, including a $50 million defamation lawsuit by Tom Cruise, filed last October after two U.S.-based publications alleged he’d abandoned his daughter Suri. In fact, Bauer generates dozens of legal complaints worldwide each year about invasion of privacy or libel, according to a lawyer who has frequently opposed them.

The Duggar sisters are absolutely correct. In Touch and Bauer Media Group make money, in part, by exploiting women and trafficking in content that sexually objectifies women. The young women in the Duggar family who were victims of sexual abuse by their brother were victimized a second time by a magazine that treated them, not as accidental collateral damage in their honest efforts to report a legitimate news story, but as an integral part of a business model based on sexual exploitation of women. They exploited the sexual abuse suffered by the Duggar sisters for money, pure and simple. And they’ve done it with countless other women over the years. Disgusting.

Also see: Media Greed Causing Immeasurable Pain to Duggar Daughters



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: childsexualabuse; exploitationpress; jessaseewald; jilldillard; joshduggar; moralpanic; pornification; pravdamedia; sensationalism
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To: Just mythoughts

Time for a Xanax?


261 posted on 06/07/2015 3:02:46 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: jimbo807
Time for a Xanax?

Ah, an Alinskite!

262 posted on 06/07/2015 3:04:06 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

What is your take on water fluoridation?


263 posted on 06/07/2015 3:04:56 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: jimbo807
thorazine photo: Thorazine Gramps thorazinegramps.jpg

He's going to need something stronger.

264 posted on 06/07/2015 3:04:58 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: humblegunner

Breaks my heart to see long time Freepers undercut another Freeper as badly as you just did.

Because he’s not lock step with your opinion, you accuse him of incestuous intentions.

I truly wonder what Jim would think of these threads.
Maybe you can ask him....

....because the election build up has hardly started and Freepers are tearing each other apart...
And like you just did, anyone who differs from your point of view ....is accused of vile intentions.

THIS has got to stop!


265 posted on 06/07/2015 3:07:04 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3)
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To: jimbo807
What is your take on water fluoridation?

I do not have a take on water fluoridation. Some claim it is toxic, others claim it is a modern necessity. What is your take on water fluoridation?

266 posted on 06/07/2015 3:14:39 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Ann Archy

Exactly


267 posted on 06/07/2015 3:15:48 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Ann Archy

BTTT


268 posted on 06/07/2015 3:16:45 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Just mythoughts

Just trying to get yourthoughts


269 posted on 06/07/2015 3:17:38 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: jimbo807
Just trying to get yourthoughts

Sure you are! NOT!

270 posted on 06/07/2015 3:18:26 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: citizen

The judge is correct


271 posted on 06/07/2015 3:18:27 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: citizen

Well, isn’t that a little bit to late, since the damage by that tabloid magazine was already done?


272 posted on 06/07/2015 3:21:13 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Snickering Hound
He's going to need something stronger.

He is a she, mom of three.

273 posted on 06/07/2015 3:22:41 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: VictoryGal

Most of my reply to you is contained in my post #191.

However in addition, I’d add that your pursuit of invective and slander: “woman-hating cult,” etc., and your denial of the healing all the victim sisters testify took place, is nothing more than inflammatory baiting tactics. Your basic argument is that if Josh is not a likeable guy, by your standards, then he’s a dangerous criminal and everyone who helped and supported him are frauds enabling his criminality. Except his victim sisters, for whom, in the name of having “compassion,” you strip of their integrity, mind and autonomy, and declare them to be, instead, actually cult damaged zombies.

LOL, yeah, you’re the fount of female solidarity and compassion, alright.

It doesn’t matter, I understand. If women can heal and recover, if men can heal and recover, if honesty and love can rise above trauma and shame and mistakes, where will the savage criminalization and hatred that forms the backbone of feminism end up? If compassion can’t be used by women to emotionally cripple other women, to make them frightened and weak in the name of supporting them, to erase their personal understanding and deny their personal knowledge and replace it with an imposed insanity status to fit the feminist agenda, what will happen to the control vectors that managed the fear that keeps all these women voting for the feminist platform?

Managing hatred must be an exhausting task. Demanding perfection from the world, while raping the hearts and minds of your followers is literally a never-ending work. You must be exhausted.

Take a bubble bath. Kick a puppy. Relax a bit, give yourself some quiet time, before you pick up your bloody hammer and go back to destroying the hearts and minds of women in the name of peace, love and children.

And remember to stay focused on Christians. You might want to get side-tracked on the formalized Muslim enslavement, beatings, genital mutilation, and mass-rape of females, but don’t do it. Attacking Christian families that are disproving the feminist hate-meme is far more important for ensuring votes based on genitals alone.

Carry on.


274 posted on 06/07/2015 3:23:07 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: b9

You are welcome and it has indeed


275 posted on 06/07/2015 3:23:45 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Talisker

They are not christians! It’s the gothard cult!


276 posted on 06/07/2015 3:26:39 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: jimbo807

Very well said


277 posted on 06/07/2015 3:26:53 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: greyfoxx39

Ouch


278 posted on 06/07/2015 3:29:42 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: PAR35

Hooooooold it. There are plenty of preachers of other denominations who are pedophiles. Don’t think only Catholic Priests are


279 posted on 06/07/2015 3:33:34 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Talisker
> However in addition, I’d add that your pursuit of invective and slander: “woman-hating cult,” etc.
What do you think of this? Do you think it constitutes good, therapeutic advice? This is what was used in counseling the Duggar girls.


As for your sage advice to "kick a puppy" -- no thanks. Also, please don't do that yourself.
280 posted on 06/07/2015 3:33:44 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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