Re: [wc] Politicians' kids in facebook

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:09:09 -0700

hahahahahaha.. poor kurtz.  so harmed by frist's kids maybe harming frist.  how can they be so stupid- this is great.  Who's being the old fogey now- "Oh, look what wonkette has gone and done now...."

Gawd.. I would throttle my kidz if they were THIS dumb, unaware and thought they were so untouchable.  What a great story. 

On 6/16/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

I thought this was interesting:

Those Darned Kids

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 16, 2006; 7:50 AM

I'm getting a little tired of reading all these "exposes" of Facebook
and MySpace.

Hardly a week goes by without some newscast or newspaper discovering
that it can be hazardous to the college or professional careers of
young people to post pictures of themselves engaged in drinking,
drugging, loving or other racy activity that might be frowned upon by
some adult in a position of authority.

Okay, we get it. Hasn't dumb judgment always been hazardous to your
professional health?

It's a legitimate story, but I detect a faint whiff of Old Media
getting all exercised about the terrible dangers of New Media--why
are all those kids wasting their time blabbing on these social sites?-
-rather than figuring out how to appeal to their young fans.

So if college-type kids want to endanger their prospects by acting
online like, well, college kids, let 'er rip. But now comes a new
wrinkle: Should embarrassing postings be held against their parents,
especially if their parents are, like, politicians?

First Wonkette reports that one of Bill Frist's sons has some weird
language in his profile in Facebook (aimed at college students and
alums): "Lets bomb some people." (He didn't major in grammar,
apparently.) And "FREE DUKE" hanging on his wall.

Then Roll Call found another son of the Senate majority leader
declaring membership in the "Jonathan Frist appreciation For 'Waking
Up White People' Group" and another group that says: "No Jews
Allowed. Just Kidding. No seriously." And there was this
gem: "Texans: the lowest form of white man there is."

Wonkette posted a picture of the guy wearing--I don't know the
technical term--a belt made out of beer cans.

Now Wonkette's investigative bureau has uncovered a picture of the
daughter of a candidate running for Frist's Tennessee Senate seat
under the headline "Bob Corker's Daughter Experiments with
Marycheneyism." There is indeed a Facebook shot of two young women
doing some serious lip-lock and another involving underwear dancing
of the kind probably not seen at Senate socials.

Do I think any of this stuff should reflect poorly on their parents?
No. But it's on a zillion Web sites now. It's too bad the kids have
been singled out because they belong to political families. And after
all, they weren't exactly busted for cocaine or arrested in a DUI.
But that's life in the Internet age: Nothing is truly private.




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