Chris Hansen, known for his “To Catch a Predator” series of reports for “Dateline NBC,” has been caught on hidden camera himself in what is could turn out to be a compromising situation. Hansen, 52 and a married father of two, was secretly videotaped June 24 arriving at the Ritz-Carlton’s Angle restaurant allegedly with Kristyn Caddell, 30, according to the National Enquirer, which has the footage posted on its website. A “romantic dinner” ensued at the Manalapan, Fla., restaurant, according to an Enquirer source.
Cameras filmed them driving back to Caddell’s Palm Beach apartment, where they didn’t emerge until 8 the next morning, the story alleges. Caddell, who works for a local TV news station, then reportedly drove him to the airport, according to the tabloid.
I dunno, seems like interesting irony since Hansen was a huge holier-than-thou defender of the set-up and the hidden camera. Oooops.
What are you guys fussing about? This is normal accepted behavior among progressives. Half of American couples aren’t even married. Of course his wife will divorce him but so what? That’s his problem. Since when have you guys cared if progressives committed adultery or just slept around? Leave that sort of stuff to people with a moral code that says adultery and fornication is wrong. Time to move on. Nothing going on here. I can’t get over how prudish atheist and agnostics are getting.
>> deowll said, on July 1st, 2011 at 8:09 am
>> What are you guys fussing about? This is normal accepted behavior among progressives.
After THE ZILLION sex scandals by conservatives, I thought you guys had dropped that factually-devoid talking point.
Is this even a partisan issue?
Are you conservatives so morally tone-deaf that you think sexual predators of underage children are the same as adulterers?
If so, you have a moral obligation to throw half your GOP leaders out, the next election cycle.
#20–do-ill==such a mix/match of words/concepts. You really have out done yourself in. Better stick to politics where your hypocrisy/stupidity/word games are less glaring.
So stupid trying to equate politics with morality and take “sides.”
Meh.
If there’s one thing consistent about these ‘holier than thou’ motherfuckers is, well …you know.
Have a seat Chris. I’m making sweet tea.
I must be a cynic because I totally read the headline and thought the worst. I totally expected the article was going to about Hansen’s tryst with a 16 year old girl or boy. Since his lover was 30 however, this should not really be news to anyone. Well anyone except for his wife that is. And then only if Hansen and his wife do not have an “open marriage.” In which case he should contact Lary Flynt stat and sell some of his “swinger” videos/stories he probably has lying around.
>> bbjester said
>> I must be a cynic because I totally read the headline and thought the worst.
My mind went there, as well, but it’s not cynicism.
These moral crusaders so often get caught-up in the very sins (or crimes, in this case) they condemn.
It’s happened more times than one can keep track of.
The psychology is fairly simple. People don’t get all lathered up about stuff that doesn’t personally affect them.
The current buzz is about Michele Bachmann’s husband who is into the de-gaying movement. Yet, this guy is setting off gaydars all over the country. Who can’t see this trainwreck coming?
“Moral Crusader?”
He reads the script for a low budget reality tv show. He is so low key as to almost miss the depravity that is on display right in front of him.
Putting on a crusade would require a bigger budget and/or a presenter who acted like he actually cared.
Which does put me in mind–given the actress is “of age” and all. Next series should be “Sex Predators go All the Way” and have them actually bed the chick after she initially says yes, but then changes her mind.
Now THAT would be some tv.
Second Issue: is it a difference in degree or type that sex predators go to the house of a willing minor, vs Chris Hansen goes to the hotel room of a willing not his spouse? I’m leaning towards a difference of degree only as “what is the law” except someone else’s morality?
Jeeze. Sex between consenting adults. That is just terrible.
The worst he can be accused of is adultery… but to do so we have to assume that his wife wasn’t cool with it. She may be. We don’t know, and it is none of our business.
Ha ! A DICK caught in a Honey Pot !!!
Book ‘em, Dano – for Divorce Court !!!
Irony, yes.
Do I care? No. Two consenting adults, not my business. However, if she made a porn vid then it’s my business.
It is a matter of moral relativism vs absolutism.
In Greece, during their enlightened period thousands of years ago, they gave birth to all kinds of ideas, including sex with minors. For some reason that I don’t understand, the Greeks thought homosexual sex with young boys was was a legitimate cutlural behaviour. Things existed like this for some time. “Cheating” on ones loved one has also existed in the past.
Moral relativisim has allowed and condemned these behaviors during various periods of human history.
If Greg Allen wishes to take a position, then the force of his argument depends on moral foundation on which he stands. Moral relativism is one of the weakest foundations I can think of.
Wrong is wrong, and mistakes should have a reasonable punishment. However, humans lack the clarity of thought to make reasonable judgements about anything IMHE. Cultural pressure is the only thing that keeps us from acting like crazy monkeys.
What–your entire argument is about the power of moral relativism yet you conclude with the conflicting “wrong is wrong.”
IOW–yes, Man on Boy sex was viewed as acceptable in Ancient Greece and so it was NOT WRONG. Today, just the opposite.
There is no right and wrong besides the moral relativism as determined by your group of monkeys.
Just remember that sex with monkeys is wrong, Wrong, WRONG! There is however, more leeway with sheep for some reason.
Bobbo, there is a lot of leeway even in modern human culture. The age of consent is 14 in China and Brazil, and it is 13 in Spain.
I have illustrated an absolutist stance by saying “Wrong is wrong”.
But more importantly, I followed up with, “Let the punishment fit the crime”.
Let me give a less salacious example:
About 30 Muslims had a hand in attacking the US on 9/11.
About 3000 Americans died on 9/11.
About 300000 Muslims were killed in revenge for 9/11.
About 300000000 Americans are thought to be at risk because of the revenge for 9/11?
Both sides think they are morally justified by past actions.
(okay, I’m making this all up for effect)
Observer–an American show for American viewers about American Laws about American minors and American Adults. I’ll let you fit China and Brazil into that matrix.
What: is the effect? I’m missing it. All morals are relative. Thats because the universe is a meaningless place and we humans make morals up out of thin air.
Life is like that.
lol Bobbo, the point is if you want to have sex with a 13 year old move to Spain
Morals do exist, they are real. However, they aren’t always known.
Taxed would say morals come from God, as expressed in his favorite holy book. This of course is nonsense.
Morals are the product of experience.
I think Even animals have been shown to show a sense of morality in their cultures.
We sometimes act morally because we think there are societal consequences, that will not necessarily result in punishement, if we do the wrong thing.
That our immoral behaviour harms an efficiently operating society.
And that is why Hansen is a jackass. He lost his moral compass, after so publicly uphodling the societal morals and making his name (and money) being a moral champion.
As soon as Hansen was tempted, he appears to given into temptation.
Yet he had no sympathy for those who couldn’t control their temptation.
I hope his wife gets a fair settlement.
Observer–oh! Ha, ha. That went over my head, under my gonads, or whatever you think fits.
Who would want to do that? I guess its much like why I would never rape a woman near my own age: what would you talk about afterwards?
….and as you will note, once again, I miss the dynamic entirely.
But then, what aren’t I missing these days?
What–morals exist because we humans make them up. Alfie says they come from religion, but “science” tells us they by an large come from Darwinian evolution, the human species having many morals the same as other apes==all for the continuation of our species what with long childhoods requiring stable families for nurturing to reproductive age. So, genes transmitting information later transferred to spoken and written words of culture taking on that role. And thats why there is no “universal” moral code. Lots of overlap, but nothing set in stone. Murder, incest, theft, lying==all on the drop down menu in one culture or another.