How many people had never heard of Josh Duggar until today?

[imnew]

[Go Vols]

1. me

[NuclearDem]

2. Heard of the freak show, not familiar with that particular clown.

[cwydro]

6. Same with me. nt

[MH1]

21. Yep, me too. nt

[Rex]

3. I wonder how many TLC producers knew about this in 2006.

Should be a full investigation and CPS should step in since there are still children in that home.

[libdem4life]

19. I want to know about TLC, as well. How could they NOT have known?

[LovingA2andMI]

28. The show has....

Been on the air for 10 years and the awful incidents on the victims behalf occurred twelve years ago. Mind you the Duggars waited atleast two years before reporting it to the police and the show has been on since 2008.

[Rex]

36. TY. I haven't watched cable TV for years.

Reality TV is one of the last things I would ever watch, maybe even forced to watch. Like Foxnews.

[brewens]

4. Me neither but delighted to know who he is now! LOL n/t

[KamaAina]

5. Oh! Oh oh! Oh oh!

</horshack>

[imnew]

8. We are showing our age

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Mistah Kottah!

*hork*hork*hork*

Yeah, I'm old...

[In_The_Wind]

7. Count me in on that list.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Many LGBT activists were aware of his role at the Family Research Council, an anti gay hate group

Sadly, many straight folks would rather pretend that sort of thing does not exist. They have the luxury to do so. Obviously.

[PeaceNikki]

22. And those of us who deeply value reproductive freedom as well.

Some are wearing ignorance of people who are hugely active fighting against our rights like a badge of elite honor.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. I didn't want to be familiar with him, but I am now. Why do you ask?

[Cooley Hurd]

11. Certainly me...

Reality TV is not something I've engaged in, except for programs that have educational value (like Mythbusters)...

[PeaceNikki]

18. He's also a political activist. Executive Director of the Family Research Council until yesterday.

They're very active in funding and pushing anti woman and anti LGBT rights causes.

Knowing who his is doesn't always mean one is a reality TV fan. It can also mean one knows their enemy.

[City Lights]

12. I learned about the Duggars here at DU awhile back. nt

[sendero]

14. Heard of him..

... but never gave two shits about him, then or now. What an accomplishment, fathers a shitload of kids. Any moron with a functional penis, and they are a dime a dozen in American, could do it. What a nothing.

[Cirque du So-What]

15. I was aware of a family called the Duggars

and that the mother of the brood apparently treated her reproductive tract like a clown car. I had never watched their program on the so-called 'learning channel' and was vaguely aware of their involvement with the quiverfull movement, but I couldn't have picked out a single one of them in a line-up. I am also aware of the so-called 'Family Research Council' - obviously not, however, to the extent that I knew of James Dobson's selection of this real-live 'celebrity' to serve in a position of leadership within his hate group. As I read elsewhere on DU today, this debacle is the marriage of irony and karma. Guess the holy spirit hadn't bestowed the gift of discernment upon dickweed Dobson.

[yardwork]

16. The Duggars have used their fame to do a lot of harm to gay people and equality allies.

I wish I'd never heard of them.

[femmocrat]

17. Me.

I only had some vague knowledge about a family with lots of kids. I didn't know they had a TV show.

[99Forever]

20. I must not be watching sufficient amounts of the idiot box.

Never heard that name anywhere before here. I haven't read any of the threads, since if you ask "who are you talking about" the outrage police go into hissy fits. Not worth the aggravation.

[riderinthestorm]

23. I did. Anyone who follows LGBT news knows this guy was with the FRCS

and spewing despicable shit.

As for the rest of the family, I only know of them through the tabloids at the grocery store check out and here on DU.

[FoxNewsSucks]

24. Never heard of him

I don't watch that kind of crap. I try to avoid it, and am actually pissed off that I know what a "kardassian" is, and what Paris Hilton's dog is named. I don't care, don't want to know and THAT IS NOT NEWS.

[Lizzie Poppet]

25. *raises hand*

Don't watch much television (don't actually own one...what little I watch, I watch online). I certainly don't watch reality TV...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

26. I knew. Why do you ask?

Member of the creepy reality TV family and moved to the DC area to work with the Family Research Council. I also remember Googling Tom Cotton (A-AR) after he said something incredibly idiotic, and seeing pics of Josh's shining mug on the campaign trail with him.



Faith Family Freedumb, indeed.

You trying to make a point?

[ruffburr]

27. me too I had to ask.

[romanic]

29. I know of the tv show dealing with those procreating freaks.

But I didn't exactly know (or care) to remember their names.

[m-lekktor]

30. they way 'muricans follow reality tv i would say probably quite a few. nt

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[JI7]

31. i think many people heard about the family if not him specifically

they were all over the media including major magazines and today show or some other shitty morning show would always have them on to announce when they were going to have another kid.

[Solly Mack]

32. I've heard of him before today.

As well as his family.

[840high]

33. me

[tularetom]

34. I never would have except I was surfing through the crap one day and happened across their show

It was so friggin awful I watched about five minutes of it, ran into the other room and searched for the duggars on the google machine.

I learned they were right up there with the Kardashians and the Palins on the list of people I'd rather not know they existed. Since then I'd pretty much forgotten about them until I saw the current stuff and I have to say I was not surprised in the slightest that one of those mutants was actually a perv.

In fact my guess is theres a lot more creepy shit going on inside that clan. I hope enough light gets shined on it that all the cucarachas shrivel up and disappear.

[rusty fender]

35. me

[d_r]

37. me

I knew there was a family on TV with a bunch of kids that had fundamentalist outlook

[bigwillq]

38. I had (nt)

[Liberal In Texas]

39. I've heard of these idiots. But I pay attention.

Keep an eye on the crazies...