“If the rules stipulated the essay must be true…”

Ah, but you see, an essay, being an expession of personal feelings, opinion, juudgement, whatever – is presumed automatically to BE true. Were it untrue, it would perforce be utterly pointless.

Here’s a term you’ve never heard once in your life: “false essay.”

“They didn’t SAY it had to be true, so she won fairly.” Exactly that form of ‘lawyer’s logic’ is behind so much of what makes modern Western society suck.

(Love the handle BTW)

Maybe I wasn’t clear in my comment in #15. The essay was a work of fiction. Since fiction is understood to be false then there is no fraud. The contest organizers agreed that the essay was good enough to win. If the rules stipulated the essay must be true then great, they did the right thing. If the rules just asked for an essay without asking for truthfulness, then they were wrong to disqualify the contestant after they announced they had won.

I agree, it would depend upon what the rules actually said. In the article though, there was no mention that the essay had to be written by the child or that it must be true. Since they were not mentioned and the mother readily admitted to the contest organizers that the essay was fiction I believe that was not a contest rule. (although I am prepared to be wrong on that)

Only a shuttered “stay at home” mom would be naieve enough to think they could get away with such an outrageous lie in the Internet Age.

Sounds like a Texian – which she, by no coïncidence, IS. This, far, FAR more often than you would believe, is fundamentally how our future Lone Star socio- and psychopaths are created.

Competition, not coöperation. Win, any way you can. What YOU want is the only thing that matters. Rules are for chumps.

From six-y-o girls to the President, typical Texas egocentric, greedy, morals-and-ethics-free “values” at work.

And some of you will still wonder why so many Texians end up on Death Row…

Possibly, depending on the exact wording of the rules. However, a quick check of the definition for fraud tells me that the word describes with utter precision what the mother and daughter did to win the contest. So the unanswered question is, were the rules loose enough to allow for material representations of fact contained in the “essay” to be intentionally false? I think it goes without saying that the judges relied on the truthfulness of the essay in making their original decision.

Sorry you apparently had a rough night at the Holiday Inn Express, but I doubt that you were unable to express your dissatisfaction to them before leaving

After staying at a Holiday Inn Express last night, I feel competent to suggest that changing a contest’s rules after the contest has ended or a winner declared is fraud.

1. each tv station and each the radio station must be own 100% by person live within physical area serve by tv station. this call the local ownership.

2. no single person to owning more than 1% of any one tv station stock certificate. this make the diverse ownership.

3. abolish him networks, abccbsnbcfox. then to letting local own station form own networks with power from bottom up (flow from shareholder to board of director to ceo), not him top down like now in usa.

4. this keep the free press and stop the rupert murdoch type man keep all ameriki so stupid if buy him corporation which to own so many station and newspaper and radio and keep ameriki the stupid people.

after follow mullah cimoc method benjamin frankling to be the proud.

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and also ameriki woman to stop be slut and not take LBT (low back tattoo) stop the meth, and stop to not smoke the cigerette, obey husband, the good mother to loving the chldren.

Thankfully the media is placing the blame on the mother (rightfully). She’s the one that did all the lying. At best the kid just signed her name in crayon and put on the stamp.

Dan

First Quote: “A 6-year-old girl…isn’t going to the show after all…[because] contest’s sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize”

Common, I understand tabloid headlines, but this is taking it too far.

http://larakay.co.uk/images/1411-RB-2.jpg

What 6 year old is able to write with cursive script interspersed?