Comments on: Update IV: Falcon’s Flight Of Fancy (Farce Continued)

By: Steve Bernier

Steve Bernier — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:36:05 +0000

You are absolutely right when you stated that a “christian home-schooler” would have a different slant to the report. They would be persecuted and even prosecuted by the “state”. The media would have attacked, viciously, the parents for “brainwashing” their children and “isolating” them from “society”. And their belief in G-d would have been attacked as “lunatic fringe” at best.

Missed your Friday column today…I also realize that sometimes you need a break.

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:03:11 +0000

A thoroughly entertaining story from the first.

I’m just a little surprised none of the government experts attempted to shoot the thing down.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:43:23 +0000

Remember, of course, that state police and/or Federal agents have descended upon the homes of certain religious sects to remove children from their parents at gunpoint when there was no evidence of abuse. To my mind, taking minor children into the eye of a hurricane, as the Heenes did, is reckless endangerment. What's next? A reality show titled, "Taking baby to Iraq?" I did hear Shepard Smith ask, as the balloon was flying, whether it might be possible that the little boy was hiding under a bed at home.

By: Mari Tyers

Mari Tyers — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:02:19 +0000

So the parents are science and mysticism lovers.
Oxymoron?

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:49:35 +0000

The hundreds of thousands of bucks this huckster “earns” from his free PR and books, interviews, etc. should go to the taxpayers of Colorado for their expenses in tracking a kid who was in the attic!

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:45:28 +0000

What kind of insane narcissist would participate in a show called WIFE SWAP when she has three young children? This sounds like reality soft porn for swingers. It was described as "producers switch the places of two wives and see if sparks fly." What kind of an impact does seeing your mother "swapped" with another woman to "see if sparks fly" with your father have on young children? Hasn't the Maternal State taken people's kids away for less? Isn't anyone else sickened by this kind of filth? I thought this was a publicity stunt as soon as I heard the words "reality TV." These people should be investigated for filing a false police report. Maybe Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus can start a show called "underage daughter swap" next.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:44:39 +0000

Sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Parents who’ve been on the “tawdry reality show” hawking their kids and their lifestyle, for all intents and purposes, probably wouldn’t mind even a fine or a lawsuit, as long as it gets their name out there.