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.
Is that the new rally cry?
Yes you were, and yes you did - directly.
You are a liar.
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Talisker: Without evidence, real, direct evidence that something is now taking place, asking such a question with the implications you have done is obscene. It's vile, slanderous and hateful, and identifies you as utterly shameless. You've just shown a level of inhumanity that is breathtaking.
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Yaelle:
Let's get this right. You are calling me
Obscene
Vile
Slanderous
Hateful
Utterly shameless
Inhuman
because I post on a message board that I am not sure if a young pedophile has given up, on his own, molesting children after multiple admitted counts. While he is in constant contact with little girls like the ones he molested.
Seems a bit much to attack me the way you have.
Again, then: Without evidence, real, direct evidence that something is now taking place, asking such a question with the implications you have done is obscene. It's vile, slanderous and hateful, and identifies you as utterly shameless. You've just shown a level of inhumanity that is breathtaking. Clear?
He should be arrested and charged.
Enough with the Duggars already.
You do.
I hate liars and phonies
Then it must be hard to live with yourself.
Isn’t it great when people have no argument left so they throw the ad hominem attacks?
You are calling me a liar and a phony. How am I lying? I am speaking about my opinion of people I don’t know, using info I got from the press. I can’t be lying. Lying means I KNOW something is false and I’m saying it anyway. That is non applicable here.
Phony? That would mean I am pretending to be something I’m not. I’m not pretending anything. I’m giving my opinion, yes, that the Duggars (the parents, at least) are lying and phony.
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