girl wins tickets to sold-out hannah montana concert by writing about her father's nonexistent death in iraq

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/29/fake.essay.ap/index.html

Horrible horrible thing to do, but it goes to show you that the nation tends to eat those types of stories up. Clever that they went for that angle, but christ...great ideals to be learning at a young age!

Hey, if it's okay to make stuff up to get us in to the war, it's okay to make stuff up to get something out of it. We got rid of a ruthless autocrat. The girl should get her tickets. It's all good.

The two things have nothing to do with each other.

I could write an essay about the horseshit Bush and his administration pulled to convince our numbskull nation to go to war with Iraq, and argue about how unnecessary it was.

Doesn't change the fact that the mother is basically teaching their child that it is ok to lie and distort the truth as long as they're doing it for material goods. I'd have the same problem if the child made up a story about her dad dying in a grocery store.

(fwiw, I'm heavily against the war.)

are you heavily against sarcasm?

If that was sarcasm, I'm an Irish barber.

Can I get a buzzcut there, Seamus?

Sarcasm doesn't work over the internet.

Really?

we did whatever we could do to win

the mom sucked a few dicks for Hannah Montana tix

buying tics to a hannah montana show and then flipping them for a bj would be the most expensie bj ever

comes with caviar

maybe if she brought some foie gras

Hey, if it's okay to make stuff up to get us in to the war, it's okay to make stuff up to get something out of it. We got rid of a ruthless autocrat. The girl should get her tickets. It's all good.

-- bendy, Sunday, December 30, 2007 2:33 AM

^ shit is serious

I'm sure when they won and it seemed like the organization might catch on to their lie, the mother was probably trying to put an I.E.D. together to blow up her husband and confirm her story.

The human cost of the Teenpop thread is revealed.

didn't this basically happen on ilx ages ago?

Dirty dronerock GIs.

mother whose girl won tickets to etc etc, 'the fuck is on yr ipod?

HEROES

Ban all fiction!

Next you're going to tell me that many Americans make a living selling each other speculative real estate ventures that they purchase using unusual loan arrangements.

Tickets now go to the author of the runner-up essay--"USA is A-Okay!"

She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq.

"Jonathan Menjivar is an independent producer in Chicago, Illinois. He has reported and produced work for This American Life, Re:sound, The Savvy Traveler, KCRW, Michigan Radio, and the Peabody Award-winning Web site transom.org, where he was an artist-in-residence in Winter 2002. In 2004 he coproduced the Chicago Matters documentary Dream of Democracy with Barrett Golding."

Hmmm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_re_us/fake_essay_4

Oooooh burn.

""With this decision, we hope to revive the intended spirit of the contest, which was designed to make a little girl's holidays extra special," Club Libby Lu chief executive Mary Drolet said in a statement Saturday."

HAHAHA!

well there's my faith in justice restored

The Associated Press was unable to find a phone number for Ceballos on Saturday.

omg does she exist? Fan Club Lies About Mom Who Lied About Husband Dying in Iraq

Everything about this story depresses me.

i hope she gets her tickets from make-a-wish

http://www.wsmv.com/news/15132397/detail.html

Police: Teen Intended To Hijack Nashville-Bound Plane
California Teenager Charged With Felony Terrorism

POSTED: 6:53 pm CST January 24, 2008
UPDATED: 8:06 pm CST January 24, 2008

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A California teenager has been arrested in Nashville and charged with felony terrorism.

The teenager boarded a plane in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, and Metro police said he had handcuffs, rope and duct tape and intentions to hijack the plane. The plane was bound for Nashville, where the teen was taken into custody.

The teen wanted to divert the plane to Lafayette, La., and crash it into a "Hannah Montana" concert, officials said.

Sources told Channel 4 that authorities searched the teenager's home in California and found a makeshift cockpit.

Why Hannah Montana? Isn't there better things to crash in to?

Most teens would be satisfied merely by having a makeshift cockpit.