Defending Priscilla Ceballos – Well Sorta….

(Warning – this is a longer post…get another coffee and read on)

Priscilla Ceballos is pretty normal in my mind. I mean it is not like she is a monster or something like that. However - she appears in the printed media, depending who writes about her – to be an over doting mommy that is right up there rated along with a Godzilla of 2008. Mark her name and remember it – the News Media has and will hound her again and again. My bet is she will be in hiding to get away from the frenzy that she has brought on her self.

Most Canadians that read this will say, “Who is Priscilla Ceballos?” Most people in our church would be the same in reacting too.

Most Americans, if they heard about it, would not know where Garland, Texas is or even care…but they will be chewing on this story for a while.

Most Africans(or people in Africa) that will peek in to this blog and wonder if the whole world is completely nuts – as they deal with poverty and homeless people.

Most Asians will already be developing a “Priscilla Ceballos” doll or game of villains that they will have ready for 2008 game season. The Northern Asians will have a new game on “Wii” where Americans will be able to beat up on Priscilla Ceballos by waving their controller.

Personally – I think the world is NUTS and Priscilla Ceballos is pretty normal.

So by now you are screaming at your monitor – “WHO IS Priscilla Ceballos!!!!?”

She is…(quote from Dallas News – reference below)
Ms. Ceballos is thus famous as the scheming devil mom who coached her 6-year-old daughter to write a pack of lies about losing her father in Iraq in an essay contest for tickets to see a Hannah Montana concert in Albany, N.Y.

After the child was announced and feted as the winner of the contest, it was discovered that the father is very much alive, and that the essay was a complete fabrication.

Here is the winning-but-fraudulent essay that initially won the contest:
"My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy." …end quote.

That dirty, rotten, low down mother of a 6 year old beat out about 1000 other mothers(and fathers) from getting free tickets to a Hannah Montana concert.

Then that conniving mother of the 6 year that won – was surrounded by the media and hounded until she confessed later that it was all done just so she could win. (Check out the YouTube link at the end of this posting to watch the hounded mother as they go after her.)

As a pastor and man that listens to all kinds of people and their personal dilemmas I think that Priscilla Ceballos is pretty normal in my mind.

“PASTOR MURRAY… HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT!? She lied in front of her daughter and worse yet in front of her world’s TELEVISION! HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT? I AM SHOCKED!” come the screams of doting followers of Northviewchurch.blogspot.com…

“Come on get real…” is my answer, “The other 1000 entrants into the contest for tickets probably lied too… these tickets were hot. In fact many of the essays written may not have been written by kids but rather by ticket scalpers that were trying to make a Buck or Two!”

Come on get real… I watch Lawyers do it in court all the time! They skirt around the truth issues and get as close as they can to the real untruth to just get their clients off – or in realty get their clients to pay a whole lot more money as they ask for “interlocutory procedural devices”(lawyer talk for delays) – or in my terms – get this ordeal to keep on keeping on until the client is nearly broke. Lots of Lawyers lie.

Come on get real… have you watched the Politicians in Canada and the USA lately? They get as close to the truth as possible without giving away what they really intend to do when they get into the major offices that they seek. Have you noticed how many Politicians are or were Lawyers?

Come on get real…the American Primary Election time is on now. More “Bull” is spread in the name of Democracy than anywhere in the world. In a lot of people’s opinion they are given a choice to decide which one of these people standing to babble their ideas, is lying more or less than the others. Most important they cannot and will not say what they really believe now…only what they think you really want to hear in order for them to get what they want – the election! – THE PRIZE!

Is Priscilla Ceballos any different? No.

To top this off… the other day I was asked by way of email to NOT VOTE FOR HILARY CLINTON because she is a liar… Okay… but I am Canadian… and I don’t vote for anyone South of our Border… The person that composed the email stated she was a liar. So… what is your point? How do I know that your email is not a lie?

Come on get real… who isn’t a liar?...or hasn’t lied at one point? The answer to that one is… TADA… No one!

Priscilla Ceballos is pretty normal in my mind – she just got caught. My point again? Even is she says she is sorry…after she confesses…she will be known for one really stupid act…she will not be forgotten.

But then we elect these other dear folk… then write about them and dissect them after they are done… because we know better. BULL!

BUT… God doesn’t care…he loves Priscilla Ceballos. He even loves Politicians and Lawyers – AND HE EVEN LOVES ME. That is really saying something about God.

~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~

Resources
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9qT0FZSIkRU

Interlocutory is a law term which can refer to an order, sentence, decree, or judgment, given in an intermediate stage between the commencement and termination of a cause, used to provide a temporary or provisional decision on an issue. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocutory

NOTE: I am including the text copy of The Dallas Morning News article with full credit to Ms. Floyd… just because the link to this article may not always be active. After all when The Dallas Morning News catches another bigger story about another Liar – they will nuke this one and the link will be dead in a few month’s time.

Hannah Montana essay stunt takes parental indulgence to new lows

By Jacquielynn Floyd – Jacquielynn writes a column for The Dallas Morning News.

Doting Garland mommy Priscilla Ceballos may, in one epic blunder, have dethroned the screaming soccer dad as the iconic wigged-out parent of the new millennium.

By midweek, her fame had gone global: "Sick Hannah Montana Iraq lie" blared a headline in one London newspaper.

Ms. Ceballos is thus famous as the scheming devil mom who coached her 6-year-old daughter to write a pack of lies about losing her father in Iraq in an essay contest for tickets to see a Hannah Montana concert in Albany, N.Y.

After the child was announced and feted as the winner of the contest, it was discovered that the father is very much alive, and that the essay was a complete fabrication.

Here is the winning-but-fraudulent essay that initially won the contest:
"My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy."

Leaving aside the obvious and grotesque callousness of inventing a dead soldier, I wonder a little at the contest organizers' failure to vet this cloying tear-jerker before awarding the prize. The only thing missing is "I know my daddy is watching over me from heaven with Jesus and Grandma and my little dog Snickers," but perhaps there wasn't room on the entry form.

It's distasteful, but not especially shocking, that a person would resort to gross falsehood for personal gain. People do it every day. But Ms. Ceballos' subsequent, matter-of-fact explanation that "we wrote whatever we could to win" sets a new benchmark for pure hubris.

She comes across as slightly puzzled by all-this-fuss: Who can blame a parent for yearning to deliver something their child holds so dear?

That's the really astonishing part – that a parent would resort to such measures to deliver something as trivial as tickets to see a pop star. Yet there are hints that, while some condemn Ms. Ceballos' methods, they sympathize with her desire.

ABC News' Good Morning America gravely reported the following:
"While some may understand the Ceballoses' desperation to attain tickets to the hottest concert to children and tweens, others believe her actions may have caused more harm to her daughter than if she hadn't won the tickets. Some questioned whether Ceballos went too far with the tall tale."

Ba-whuh? "Some may understand" the "desperation"? We are not talking about a lung transplant here. We're discussing concert tickets for a 6-year-old who likely does not understand that "Hannah Montana" is not an actual person.

This whole "tween" business is foolish enough, a period that some parents seem to regard as a six-year-long dress rehearsal for puberty, complete with makeup, designer jeans and "role modeling" pop stars.

Is "my kid really wants it" sufficient reason to buy into all this? What if your kid wants a chain saw?

It's reminiscent of some of the hysterical reactions from parents after it was revealed that 16-year-old television actress Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant (like other childless adults, I hadn't even known that the unavoidable Britney Spears even had a sister).

Breathless reports quoted moms everywhere as they wrung their hands over how they would "explain" this to their grade-school children. I dunno. Maybe it would be a good time to talk about bad choices and good ones, about the difference between TV characters and real people.

Ms. Ceballos no doubt deserves the public scorn she has earned for being a liar and a cheat. It goes without saying that she has completely missed the point of this "role modeling" business.

It's more subtly disturbing, though, to see so many parents out there who seem to sincerely believe that gratifying a child's desires, no matter how trivial, is a sound foundation for good parenting.

There used to be a grim cliché of the estranged-and-divorced dad who tries to "buy" a child's love with gifts and indulgence. What do you get if that's the modus operandi for the custodial parents?

Buying stuff, or lying to get it, is easy. Teaching children to do "whatever we can to win" is easy.
(From - http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jfloyd/stories/010407dnmetfloyd.7ccdca6.html# )