Here Come the Twins…
People Magazine’s Sarah Michaud reports that Kyra Phillips has given birth to twins…
CNN Newsroom anchor Kyra Phillips, 42, and her fiancée, Fox News Senior National Correspondent John Roberts, 54, welcomed fraternal twins just after midnight on Tuesday, March 15, they tell PEOPLE exclusively.
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March 15, 2011 at 10:46 am
Hey, wait a minute. Why didn’t Huckabee pick on them?
March 15, 2011 at 11:27 am
^He will once Fox suspends him.
March 15, 2011 at 11:53 am
- exclusively to People -
Yeah, screw those news organizations we work for.
March 15, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Guys, Huckabee did not speak out of turn.
I just got off the phone with one of my friends, and we are beside ourselves trying to figure out how to help our other friend, “T”.
She is the great aunt of an infant born to two unmarried, selfish brats, who also happen to have extremely selfish parents themselves. Our friend is about the 50th person in line to have to worry about an infant, yet because of the lack of responsibilty that ANY of these people have, the infant is stuck with our friend, who is 60 and in ill health.
While the family had a great Catholic baptism ceremony and nice dinner afterward, complete with family pictures, not one of the parents, “Godparents”, grandparents, aunts or uncles, or great aunts and uncles (except for our friend) wants anything to do with the care of this child. So my 60 year old friend is stuck, holding and rocking this baby day and night, while the rest of these “friends” and relatives are off living their lives.
The two brats who conceived the child are both products of unmarried parents, so the fact that they have perpetuated this lifestyle is no surprise. Their parents took little care of them themselves, offloading them to relatives all the time they grew up. So they naturally feel this is the way to go with their new infant!
This is an anomaly in my “circle”, and I do not know how to help my friend. Clearly she is an enabler, yet she feels that the infant has no other means of care. But the fact that this baby, like her parents, will grow up without proper parental love and care is sad.
So tell me again how wrong it was for Huckabee to state that having a child out of wedlock is not easy for everyone?
March 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I agreed with the sentiment of what Huckabee said. The person to whom he applied it bore no resemblance to the situation that you are describing. It’s sad that the sentiment was lost, because of the odd comparison.
March 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Missy, I agree with you. And to answer Laura’s question (seriously, this time), Natalie Portman is a much higher-profile person than Kyra Phillips.
Although I’m sure Kyra’s twins will grow up in a nurturing environment, most children born to unmarried parents do not.
March 15, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Uh, children born to rich couples engaged to be married is NOT a problem. Got it?
March 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Laura., Huckabee’s point is that many people look to someone like Portman as a role model. Many, many girls see her and think, wow, she’s not married and is having a kid, I can do so as well!
Obviously the situation is different, and that is Huckabee’s point! Our youth DO look to these movie stars as role models and think they can do what the stars do. Ms. Portman has tons of resources at her disposal and could hire an entire hospital of child care for her infant. But the “masses” cannot, and will not realize this until after the child is born.
March 15, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Joe, see above.
You two honestly don’t think these Hollywood types are role models to today’s youth? Is that really what you are saying here?
March 15, 2011 at 12:25 pm
“Although I’m sure Kyra’s twins will grow up in a nurturing environment, most children born to unmarried parents do not.”
Josh, thank you!
March 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Missy, I do not think kids pay attention to things like this, and at any rate, Portman is a bad example of your point. She’s getting married, which is what unmarried pregnant couples are advised by pastors to do. There’s absolutely no relationship to the “poor, unwed mother” you’re talking about.
March 15, 2011 at 12:32 pm
MTV did something responsible, though probably by accident. I hear that the show ’16 and Pregnant’ (I think is the name), is actually discouraging girls from getting pregs. So there’s that.
March 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Before this thing spirals completely out of control, someone should acknowledge that Laura was joking, and it was a good line, ok people?
March 15, 2011 at 12:42 pm
^ If ya have to explain it…
March 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Joe and other libs, I know you’ll appreciate this from one of your favorite websites (sorry, the link for the original source, ABC News, no longer works) . John Stossel did a much better job explaining himself than did I, or apparently Mike Huckabee.
Bye for now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/634398/posts
March 15, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I wonder if Mr. Huckabee believes that Bristol Palin’s appearance on Dancing with the Stars glamorized unwed mothers.
March 15, 2011 at 7:32 pm
^ HA! Wow, how did we miss that?
March 15, 2011 at 7:50 pm
laura l Says: “I hear that the show ’16 and Pregnant’ (I think is the name), is actually discouraging girls from getting pregs.”
My hope is that the program is discouraging girls from becoming pregnant, though I believe it also has the potential to not inhibit conception, but to foster abortion.
March 15, 2011 at 7:57 pm
My hope is that the program is discouraging girls from becoming pregnant, though I believe it also has the potential to not inhibit conception, but to foster abortion.
I believe you are a jawdropping idiot. The stats I have to back that up are about as reliable as anything you have for that utterly baseless and asinine comment.
March 15, 2011 at 8:15 pm
joeremi says: “I believe you are a jawdropping idiot.”
Okay.
March 15, 2011 at 8:17 pm
There are girls who either get pregnant on purpose, or who don’t make much effort at trying not to. I can’t get my mind around being that way, but it does exist. They seem to have a view of babies as being like pets with diapers. This program shows them otherwise. How that plays-out is anyone’s guess, but I’m happy it the general outcome is teenagers not raising kids.
March 15, 2011 at 8:31 pm
The implication that programs showing the realities of teen pregnancy are just as likely to foster abortion, as to prevent pregnancy, is a psychotic concept. I don’t even know where to begin with such a strange thought.
March 15, 2011 at 8:37 pm
I guess it depends whether the program catches them before or after they get pregnant.
March 15, 2011 at 8:41 pm
^ I don’t care, it’s still a bizarre thing to say. Anything that makes young girls face the daunting realities of teen pregnancy should be considered a good thing, not some bizarre support for abortion. That’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever heard.
March 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm
I don’t think that anyone ever said that the program wasn’t a good thing, just that it has the potential to encourage something else that is considered to be less-than-positive. Ideally, every unintended pregnancy would end in a two-parent adoption, but that ain’t reality on a couple of levels. Some find it easier to deal with an abortion than to give birth and give it up.
It’s extremely complicated, and I don’t see the problem with lamenting the fact that some may have abortions as a result.
March 15, 2011 at 9:11 pm
It’s extremely complicated, and I don’t see the problem with lamenting the fact that some may have abortions as a result.
I do. I think it was an highly inappropriate place to introduce an abortion debate.
March 15, 2011 at 9:16 pm
I have no clue how one avoids the subject of abortion when discussing teen pregnancy. What you’re saying makes no sense.
March 15, 2011 at 9:27 pm
I just don’t think a show that makes teens think twice about getting pregnant is also having a statistically significant effect on the abortion rate. The number of girls who carry to term vastly outnumbers those who abort, so why bring it up? It’s weird.
March 15, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Of course, the program’s effect on anyone is statistically insignificant, given that it’s MTV, and I don’t know who brought up this idiot subject to begin with.
March 15, 2011 at 9:35 pm
^ Uh..when my girls were 16 (daughter and stepdaughter, not twins), MTV was all they watched.
March 15, 2011 at 9:42 pm
I’m quickly approaching ‘whatever’ status.
March 15, 2011 at 9:46 pm
I’m quickly approaching ‘whatever’ status.
Say something dismissive, followed by a
. Works every time.
March 15, 2011 at 9:47 pm