Back in April, Josh Duggar, who used to star in a family television series until the world discovered that he used to improperly touch underage girls whether he was related to them or not, was in Washington, D.C., for the National Organization for Marriage’s “March for Marriage.”  Duggar, being a good Duggar, was there to stand up for what Christian conservatives like himself and his mom and his dad think of as “traditional” marriage, and to tell everybody that good Christians like himself have been persecuted because of their faith during the debate about gay marriage in this country.  “America,” Josh Duggar said at the time, God bless him, “was founded on respect, tolerance, and really not discriminating against people based on their religious convictions.”  You would think, just in the interest of full disclosure, and knowing what he knew about himself before the rest of us found out, that he could have added that respect in America also ought to include respect for the rights of children, even when he was sneaking into their bedrooms at night. But as so often happens with people like Josh Duggar, they’ve got their gospel and the rest of us have to make do with ours.  Of course, now it comes out that years before Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar began parading themselves and their children and their cockeyed beliefs on the TLC network, on a show now called “19 Kids and Counting” — the numbers had to keep changing as the kids at the breeding farm kept coming — they knew what Josh Duggar had done, and not just with his own sisters. But they went ahead with their wretched self-promotion anyway, telling us all about their strict rules on parenting and dating and gender, you bet.  And when they were caught and their son was caught what happened next was as predictable as the tide: Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, reality TV stars, went running straight to television to explain themselves, and make a grab for martyrdom that only slow-thinkers like themselves were buying.  For all the fun we have with the Kardashians, and the way they have paraded their own lives across their own television screens for years, all the way to Caitlyn Jenner, you put them up against the Duggars of Arkansas and they start to look like our royal family.  So less than a month after Josh Duggar is in Washington to lecture everybody about what really is a sacred union in this country, the news about what he had done with various young girls when he was a teenager himself comes out. Now we discover that when the parents found out what their son had done, including with his own sisters, they decided that the wisest course of action was to put him into some kind of program for boys who had made “bad choices,” as if they had caught him trying to steal Jim Bob’s car keys, or sneak a beer.  When Megyn Kelly of Fox asked Jim Bob Duggar why in the world he would go ahead and put his family on television knowing what he knew about his son, he said this:  “When we were asked to do the show, all of this had taken place five years before. We had no fears because everything was resolved and . . . it was a sealed juvenile record and this stuff under law can’t be brought up.”  And when Kelly went at Michelle Duggar because of her weird beliefs about transgender people, who Mrs. Duggar clearly believes are a threat to molest anybody and everybody, she said, “I think that protecting young girls and not allowing young men and men in general to go into a girls’ locker room is just common sense.”  Only she couldn’t protect her own daughters and a family baby-sitter from her own teenage son. She now wants you and me and everybody to believe that because Josh Duggar felt badly about what he’d done, because he went away to bad-boy camp and came back and said he was a changed man, that not only did they forgive him but everybody else is supposed to forgive him as well.  The good news from Mrs. Duggar, though, is that she still thinks she can save the family TV series, even as TLC takes it off the air and decides what to do with it. Or maybe tries to figure out if there is a way to get bigger ratings and make more money off these goobers.  The Duggars want this all to be about a sealed juvenile record becoming public, as part of their professional victimization. Right. Now they want privacy.  No, the story here is what their son did, sometimes to sleeping girls, and the fact that they are still — and shamelessly — trying to defend him and themselves. You know what these parents really sounded like with Megyn Kelly as they tried to save their creepy empire?  They sounded like accessories after the fact.  ON A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.
The parents of Josh Duggar are shamelessly trying to defend their pervert son by acting as if their privacy was invaded.