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Liz
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Fucking sick.
#7810870 - 12/29/07 03:45 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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This story made me a little bit ill.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/29/fake.essay.ap/index.html
GARLAND, Texas (AP) -- An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
A fake essay won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a sold-out Hannah Montana concert.
While gripping, it wasn't true -- and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.
The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games intended for young girls.
The saga began Friday with company officials surprising the girl at a Club Libby Lu at a mall in suburban Garland, northeast of Dallas. The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, New York, and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on January 9.
The mother had told company officials that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
"We did the essay and that's what we did to win," Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. "We did whatever we could do to win."
She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. Caulfield said the mother has admitted to the deception.
"We regret that the original intent of the contest, which was to make a little girl's holiday extra special, has not been realized in the way we anticipated," said Mary Drolet, the CEO of Club Libby Lu.
Drolet said the company is reviewing the matter, and is considering taking away the girl's tickets.
They should make the Mother that had that little girl write that sit in a room with a bunch of families that actually LOST fathers, Mothers, husbands, wives, etc, in Iraq. Disgusting.
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Liz]
#7810898 - 12/29/07 03:56 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That is pretty messed up, but did the people running the contest say the essays had to be non-fiction?
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how did they find out? did they investigate it or did the mom have trouble keeping her mouth shut?
thats pretty reprehensible.
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Liz]
#7811009 - 12/29/07 04:29 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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What's more sick, the fake essay or the reason the US is over there in the first place?...
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MAN I KNEW THIS WOULD TURN INTO A POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: trent]
#7811055 - 12/29/07 04:41 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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shouldnt have joined the army then should ya...biggest mistake of all of those soldier lives was choosing to fight for this godforsaken country.
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Liz]
#7811135 - 12/29/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good thing it was only tickets to Hannah Montana. Had the prize been an all-expenses paid trip to Rio, let's say, then yeah - the mom would have to do some jail time.
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They should have Hannah Montana at the USO to make up for this treason.
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Quote:
xshadowmage666x said: shouldnt have joined the army then should ya...biggest mistake of all of those soldier lives was choosing to fight for this godforsaken country.
That's an incredibly lousy thing to say. It's perfectly reasonable to support the men and women that go and fight for our country without believing in the war. You can still be grateful for their sacrifice and respect their courage and commitment, I know I do.
In any case, I didn't mean for this thread to be a political one - I just thought that exploiting people's sympathy for a dead soldier in order to win an essay contest for tickets is entirely fucked up.
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Liz]
#7812405 - 12/30/07 01:02 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think it's pretty funny personally. That 6 year old is smart.
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xshadowmage666x said: shouldnt have joined the army then should ya...biggest mistake of all of those soldier lives was choosing to fight for this godforsaken country.
So, Thanks for the big fuck you there. I lost 6 good friends this year in Iraq and they loved the country they served. Maybe you can't understand that a sacrifice is more than skipping lunch for some people.
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Liz]
#7812438 - 12/30/07 01:26 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Liz said: This story made me a little bit ill.
GARLAND, Texas (AP) -- An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
A fake essay won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a sold-out Hannah Montana concert.
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They should make the Mother that had that little girl write that sit in a room with a bunch of families that actually LOST fathers, Mothers, husbands, wives, etc, in Iraq. Disgusting.
Why? The only thing sick about that is that it's revealed they didn't fairly judge the essays, but gave the award based on a false bias towards someone dying in Iraq. There's nothing reprehensible about writing a fictional essay, which is different from a false one - which implies it was forged. I could write one about riding dinosaurs - it wouldn't matter one bit whether it was overtly false or covertly false, it wasn't a "dad died in Iraq" contest, it was an essay writing contest. It's disgusting that in the US, in an essay contest, people will award based on putrid sentimentality, rather than essay writing skill, and will then consider taking away the award when that putrid sentimentality is found to be misplaced - as if it could ever be properly placed.
What the judges revealed is that this was an illegitimate contest. If the awarding to this girl was legitimate, then it's legitimate regardless of whether the essay is true or not. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with writing about a someone, parent or not, as though dead, and it being due to Iraq, or people having really died there, does not affect that fact.
Again, the only disgusting thing here is that the contest's judges were of low enough character to be swayed by the subject matter, spitting in the faces of all the other contestants. And then, at the end of it all, they blame the girl. It really demonstrates how horrendously unintelligent that country is.
The girl should keep her prize (she shouldn't be the victim of the contest's mistake), while the contest's managers should be made to supply a second, fair judging, and award another prize to a winner.
Edited by Disco Cat (12/30/07 02:28 AM)
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Disco Cat]
#7813336 - 12/30/07 11:48 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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If the girl and her Mother wanted to give the impression that it was a fictional essay, they wouldn't have made up the name/rank/age of a guy who supposedly died in Iraq, and put it in their essay. The Mother admitted that she blatantly lied and fabricated the truth to win her daughter some damn concert tickets. I don't care about the judges being swayed, or anything other than the fact that the example that lady is setting for her daughter is fucking sickening. She's saying "Well, it's ok to lie about serious matters if you can benefit from it".
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Re: Fucking sick. [Re: Liz]
#7813347 - 12/30/07 11:52 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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she shoulda done more research
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I agree with Disco Cat on the essay note.
On the war in Iraq note...I have sympathy (not support) for those who were in the military before this war started and were sucked in by powers beyond their control. I have no sympathy, however, for people who joined after the war was started and are now in Iraq. They knew what was going to happen.
I don't support the mission they are on, and I don't see why I should support people on a mission that I don't support. I have friends that are in the military, and some are in Iraq right now. Some of them joined after the war started. I don't feel anything like sympathy or support for them, really. I think that if they died over there it would be their own fault. Why would you root for the success of a mission you believe to be a horrible mistake?
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