{"id":9474,"date":"2015-05-24T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2015-05-24T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T00:42:14","slug":"media-turn-bloodthirsty-over-duggar-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9474","title":{"rendered":"Media turn 'bloodthirsty' over Duggar coverage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hey, let’s cool the hyperbole, former\u00a0Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n

The ex-Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential candidate, says the media are “blood-thirsty in their coverage of the Josh Duggar scandal. Duggar, one of the “19 Kids and Counting” featured in the former TLC reality series, has admitted to molesting young girls, including some of his sisters, when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n

Huckabee is a family friend, who’s received the Duggars’ endorsement in his run for the presidency.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/huckabee-slams-media-for-blood-thirsty-coverage-of-duggar-molestation-report\/ar-BBk7Vps<\/p>\n

Bloodthirsty?<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Were the media bloodthirsty in its coverage of former U.S. Rep. Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner’s “selfies” of his private parts? I don’t recall the governor saying such a thing then. Do you?<\/p>\n

How about the media’s treatment of former President Bill Clinton — Huckabee’s home boy from Hope, Ark. — and the president’s affair with the White House intern? Were the media piling on about that? I believe the governor was silent about that, too.<\/p>\n

Did the media\u00a0pile on then-U.S. Rep. Barney Frank when they reported his dealings with a male hooker? Come on.<\/p>\n

Granted, Josh Duggar was\u00a0just a dumb teenager when he did those things. But he’s grown up now. He’s become politically active, right along with Mom and Dad Duggar. He became involved with the Family Research Council, a highly political organization that promotes “traditional family\u00a0values” and\u00a0high\u00a0morals. What’s more, Mom and Dad kept it all secret for several years before being outed by a magazine.<\/p>\n

This outrage\u00a0needs to be covered by the media. There’s no political blood lust involved.<\/p>\n\n

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Hey, let’s cool the hyperbole, former\u00a0Mike Huckabee. The ex-Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential candidate, says the media are “blood-thirsty in their coverage of the Josh Duggar scandal. Duggar, one of the “19 Kids and Counting” featured in the former TLC reality series, has admitted to molesting young girls, including some of his sisters, when … Continue reading Media turn 'bloodthirsty' over Duggar coverage?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[31,413,546,631,2585,3062],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-19-kids-and-counting","tag-antony-weiner","tag-barney-frank","tag-bill-clinton","tag-josh-duggar","tag-mike-huckabee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}