I'm gonna go ahead and pull the age-old, argument stopping cop-out on you... if you haven't had kids, you're not going to understand.
You don't have to have kids to tell when someone is lying.
So the kids made a stupid video. It says nothing about the parents.
Sure it does. Who made the video? And secondly, surely the parents have heard their kids saying the word "******" and "*****fied" at some point. If not, this has got to be some of the worst parents I have ever seen. But the video is just the icing on the cake. Let's keep the focus on the CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer.
Kids are far more influenced by their friends than their parents. That's true of my daughter at 4 years old, so I know it's going to be true of older kids as their parents have less and less influence. Kinda reminds me of all the anger at the parents of the kids who shot up Columbine. You get a whole new perspective when you hear it from the parents point of view. When it happened, their parents were absolutely convinced they were among the victims. They had no indication that their sons would become mass murderers, nor could they have.
Yeah, yeah.
I can look at the video and see that the kid has some sort of problem with him. I am not sure if it is Autism, ADHD, or what, but the way he is so fidgity and squirming around like that, waving his hands in his father's face, going nuts in front of the camera, etc. suggests that there is some sort of problem with him. Even the Police Chief commented in an interview how hyperactive the child was when responding to a question on whether or not he thought the thing was a hoax.
Obviously, the parents just couldn't wait to put him on TV, though.
I'm really not sure where this notion that parents should be clairvoyant and omnipresent comes from, but it's just wrong. As for the notion that you're somehow a master of facial expression and body language and can interpret reaction from an interview - that's just hilarious. Show me your degree in psychology or shut up. You don't know anymore than anyone else does, you're just diving feet-first into the media circus like the rest of the world.
You can watch your Fucking mouth in telling me to "Shut Up". I don't know who the Hell you think you're talking to, but I am not some snot-nosed punk.
Even in debates, I believe in maintaining civility, unless the other person likes to drop the rules of etiquette, at which point the gloves come off. But you aren't going to see me going around and telling people to "shut up" regardless.
However, if you want to tell everyone who thinks this family is a fraud to "shut up" you better get started. Thousands and Thousands of You Tube users all across these videos are issuing the "Guilty verdict" on these parents as anyone with a set of eyes and ears can plainly see. After the boy says that "you said to do it for the show", the father is just completely deflated for the rest of the interview and has a look on his face like "it's over".
Furthermore, when Wolf asked if the boy could clarify what the boy meant when he said "do it for the show", why was the father so hesitant to let the boy answer and provide simple clarification on what he meant if there was nothing to hide? It's clear that the father was not going to allow his son to answer that question, and therefore went off on a tirade against Blitzer, further sealing his fate.
When the boy said "You said to do it for the show", why did the father respond "Man ..." and look like he knew the world was about to end ... while the mother responded "No"? The father was awfully quiet and had a disappointed look on his face after that, instead of doing what any normal parent would have done and asked his son what he meant by that.
Now, if you want to continue discussing the Wolf Blitzer video and provide a counter to any of the things raised from that video, please feel free to do so. Otherwise, you can dispense with the bloviating.
. The saddest part is that they are getting their children involved in their lies.