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Title: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 29, 2007, 07:19:53 AM
And this makes me wanna puke my guts up:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_en_ot/fake_essay_3 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_en_ot/fake_essay_3)

Her mom must be the worst person in the world for letting her do this.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: b_masters8 on December 29, 2007, 07:31:08 AM
And this makes me wanna puke my guts up:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_en_ot/fake_essay_3 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_en_ot/fake_essay_3)

Her mom must be the worst person in the world for letting her do this.

Why would her mother let her do that?
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 29, 2007, 08:50:13 AM
Because people are gullible.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: sideshowPA on December 29, 2007, 09:58:14 AM
Why would her mother let her do that?

Are you kidding?  I am pretty sure that mom not only knew, but that it may have been her idea.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: therealcu2010 on December 29, 2007, 10:15:33 AM
:headbang:

Wow...there may have been some young person whose father really did die in Iraq (or overseas, for that matter) who didn't get the tickets because they gave them to this little girl instead.  They should take those tickets away and give them to someone else.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 29, 2007, 12:16:18 PM
When I read the story, it was enough to make me sick.  Faking someone having died in Iraq was way over the line.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: b_masters8 on December 29, 2007, 04:47:11 PM
:headbang:

Wow...there may have been some young person whose father really did die in Iraq (or overseas, for that matter) who didn't get the tickets because they gave them to this little girl instead.  They should take those tickets away and give them to someone else.

No doubt about it-- you are absolutely right on the bullseye in your assessment of the situation. Give them to someone who legitimately had a father die in Iraq, instead of someone who faked it.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: temptation1979ga on December 29, 2007, 05:22:03 PM
Yeah, I agree this is awful, and the tickets need to be taken away, if for nothing else, just to send a message that lying about something like this is NOT the way to go about winning a contest. If GSN still made that abysmal "Anything To Win," this would make a good episode.

I did see something humorous in the contest description. The following is reason enough to not let my kids enter (if I had any):

Quote
The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig

 :oldlol: Why do girls that age need a makeover anyway??? Is that the message that this show really wants to send to young impressionable youths??
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 29, 2007, 05:28:08 PM
That's another reason why if I had kids, especially what those brain surgeons at Disney call "consumer lifestyle", I would not allow them to even watch that dreck that passes as Disney Channel today.  I can understand High School Musical but the other crud that airs between noon and midnight is not my idea of Disney programing IMHO.

Kids in Disney's age target when I last checked do not have jobs, and are protected by child labor laws here in the USA.  Give me Disney Channel circa 1996, where everyone was represented.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: jwatson2973 on December 29, 2007, 07:57:13 PM
Giving a fake story that a father died in Iraq is going too far.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Enzo Aquarius on December 29, 2007, 08:12:10 PM
That is an EXTREMELY horrible thing to do, just to get an unneeded makeover and tickets. The kid is 6 years-old, they should be having fun with their friends and not be worrying about their figure (Darn celebrity tabloids  :-P ).

Reminds me of a news segment I saw of a father giving away free tickets to a Hannah Montana concert because he couldn't go to it for some reason with his daughter. He ended up giving it to a well-deserving child, but there were a group of screaming fangirls, IN A LIMO, wanting them earlier. Needless to say, I'm glad he didn't give the tickets to them.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Superballer on December 29, 2007, 11:15:51 PM
And they wonder what wrong with society today, when here's your perfect barometer right here, making the skewered point that physically (and probably artificially) attractive women are worth doing absolutely anything for no matter how fraudulent and spiteful.  I'd call for a major suit against them, then convince the Walt Disney Company to just terminate the whole franchise just to make absolutely sure it can't happen again (after all, since they tend to overreact to everything else, what not this too?). 
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 30, 2007, 12:25:22 AM
One problem with that.

It's called money...and kids between eight and thirteen don't have it.  They don't have jobs, and have to beg to their parents to get the cash needed.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Joe_Capitano on December 30, 2007, 04:28:13 AM
Her mom must be the worst person in the world for letting her do this.

Must be? No, how about Is. Not worse, not worser, WORST. I have to do this, since Olbermann's on a break (news allowing) until Wendesday.

Priscilla Ceballos. Today's WORST....PERSON....IN THE WOOOOOOOORRRRRRRLLLLLLLDDDDDD!!!!

And yes, the organizers should take everything back posthaste.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: stormy41992 on December 30, 2007, 04:55:45 AM
all i can say is i hope i wont see this as a spin-off called  Extreme Fakeover: Clone Edition

if it does, i refrain from watching it.


in all seriousness, this is sick. i echo with everyone here that the tickets should be given back and presented to someone else.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 30, 2007, 05:04:19 AM
Joe, the folks at bloggingolbermann.com called.

They have politely asked to join them in the future.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: shellgame69 on December 30, 2007, 08:40:45 AM
I too was disgusted to see that girl winning Hanna Montana tickets by faking her father's death.  I truly think this family should NEVER be allowed to enter another contest ever again.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Hag on December 30, 2007, 11:21:56 AM
I read where the mother said "We did whatever it took to win" or something similar. Great way to set an example for your child...it's only cheating if you get caught.

I agree that the tickets should be taken away, but a lawsuit by the mother would very likely follow. Disgusting.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: b_masters8 on December 30, 2007, 12:09:51 PM
I read where the mother said "We did whatever it took to win" or something similar. Great way to set an example for your child...it's only cheating if you get caught.

I agree that the tickets should be taken away, but a lawsuit by the mother would very likely follow. Disgusting.


The kind of impression that I most likely get from this is that the mother is determined to have these tickets for her daughter no matter what the cost, and if they do the right thing by taking the tickets away from her daughter and giving them to someone who really had a father die in Iraq, then the mother will sue to get the tickets back or at least get damages. I also get the impression that no matter how hard the gavel is brought down against the mother (which, IMHO, should happen), she will still pursue the tickets.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: SteveGavazzi on December 30, 2007, 01:09:50 PM
To be perfectly honest, I think the whole thing is funny.  From what little I've seen of it, Hannah Montana is a moronic show to begin with, and the girl's mother is an utter dumbass for coming up with a concept like this (and you darn well know it wasn't the kid's idea).  She clearly has no concept of what is and isn't important, and I think it's hilarious that she got caught.

I do feel a little sorry for the girl, though, 'cause she's probably going to lose her tickets over something that wasn't her decision, and she's being raised by idiots.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: temptation1979ga on December 30, 2007, 04:24:40 PM
And she did lose the tickets. According to AOL, the prize "has been withdrawn" and the tickets given to someone else.  Good!  I'm glad she got caught as well...shows what an idiot the mother is.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 31, 2007, 05:56:21 AM
"And she did lose the tickets. The prize 'has been withdrawn' and the tickets given to someone else.  Good!  I'm glad she got caught as well...shows what an idiot the mother is."

Proof in the pudding, with new and improved video goodness:

http://wbztv.com/watercooler/hannah.montana.essay.2.620062.html (http://wbztv.com/watercooler/hannah.montana.essay.2.620062.html)
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Scott5114 on December 31, 2007, 06:04:20 AM
The story was on CBS's early-morning news this morning. They said that the mother told the contest organizers it was fiction all along.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Axl on December 31, 2007, 10:17:34 AM
To be perfectly honest, I think the whole thing is funny.  From what little I've seen of it, Hannah Montana is a moronic show to begin with, and the girl's mother is an utter dumbass for coming up with a concept like this (and you darn well know it wasn't the kid's idea).

Call me a cynic, but I thought the whole thing was a bit distasteful even if the story had been true.  I understand the idea of giving gifts to people involved in tragedies that will affect their lives or giving terminally ill children the chance to do something they've always wanted while they're still with us.  But the very notion that you could take a kid whose daddy was violently killed in a war and cheer her up with concert tickets... well to me, that's almost offensive.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on December 31, 2007, 03:43:48 PM
I fail to see any humor in this whole story Steve and Axl.

First off, I agree with Steve that Hannah Montana is purely pablum puking IMHO, quoting the late Morten Downey, Jr.  Disney Channel dumbed themselves down when they went basic and instead of keeping the family audience went for what they call "consumer lifestyle" types.  By name, girls between eight and thirteen years of age who do not hold jobs by law.

Axl, I disagree with you in principal on the whole thing about cheering up a kid who had a dad or mom killed in war with concert tickets, even if it was scammed by the Mother of the Year in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.  Do you wonder why some celebs out of their own pocket decide to put on concerts (or get them seats to such events) for those whose parents were killed in such things?  The reason is to bring some sunshine into a situation of sadness that was out of their control.

In other words, life happens.  Live with it.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: phunguy on January 04, 2008, 02:45:18 PM
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/minikatanarox/bump.gif)

The mommy who duped everyone apologized on Today this morning (1/4/08).

Mother Apologizes For "Hannah Montana" Hoax (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22502162)

Too late!
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Axl on January 04, 2008, 06:05:34 PM
I fail to see any humor in this whole story Steve and Axl.

When did I ever say I found the situation funny?  Quite the opposite, in fact.
Title: Re: Hannah Montana Essay Winner Faked It All Along
Post by: Enzo Aquarius on January 04, 2008, 11:15:47 PM
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/minikatanarox/bump.gif)

The mommy who duped everyone apologized on Today this morning (1/4/08).

Mother Apologizes For "Hannah Montana" Hoax (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22502162)

Too late!

Too late indeed.  :-D