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Miley Cyrus Phallic Candy?
Take a look at this odd Hannah Montana “Concert Candy” discovered by a reader over at DListed. As funny as this is, it’s amazing someone at Disney didn’t pull (no pun intended) the plug on this product before it went out the door. I don’t think Phallic candy is going to help win over hearts and minds still damaged from the scandalous “naked shoulder” incident.
Girl Won Hannah Montana Tickets With Fake Essay
An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
The problem is that the entire story was a big lie, and the girl may lose her tickets now that the mother has admitted it.
The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games intended for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”
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. The mother has since admitted that she made the name up.
The store that sponsored this contest is now discussing the matter and is considering taking the tickets away.
I think the store should take the tickets away. That is such a horrible example for a mother to set for her 6-year old daughter. Not only was submitting a fake story bad, but to make it about her daughter’s father being killed in Iraq is just despicable.
I think the company taking the tickets away could potentially turn this ugly situation into a good lesson for the 6-year old. It would teach her that there’s consequences in life if you lie, cheat, and steal to get what you want. Whether it’s Enron, steroids in baseball, or pretending your father was killed in the war.
-Chris Jones
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