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In an blockbusting EXCLUSIVE interview on Dateline NBC, correspondent Matt Lauer sat down with Debra Lafave, the 23 year-old teacher who had sex with a 14 year-old boy on several occasions which made national headlines.

For some ungodly reason, NBC decided this was a groundbreaking story that needed to be told to America. I have one question…

Why is Debra Lafave on television?

There have been notable people who have earned the right to recognition. Sport’s heroes, movie stars, business and religious leaders, respected politicians and cultural groundbreakers have all proven worthy of the media attention paid to them. That is why we feel we know Michael Jordan, Jennifer Anniston, Donald Trump, Reverend Billy Graham, John McCain and Simon Cowell. They have been talented, colorful, daring, mesmerizing, dynamic, blessed and outrageous! But, they have not broken the law, are not mentally ill and do not continue to lie and be in denial about their irresponsible behavior.

Why is Debra Lafave on television?

As I grew up, I had so many role models to look up to that my life was positively influenced by the likes of Jimmy Dodd, head Mousketeer, who taught me ethics and morals in the songs he and his Club sang daily during my elementary school years. I loved Davy Crockett and his homespun wisdom. Hopalong Cassidy was the kind of cowboy who had a message in his approach to law enforcement. In junior high school, I was thrilled by shows like, “Father Knows Best,” and, “Leave it to Beaver.” Corny, yes; but they taught values in the way the parents handled their children. In high school, I responded to the classiness of Sandy Koufax, the humility of Hank Aaron, the greatness of Vince Lombardi and the character of John Wooden. These were true sports legends who gave the youth of America something to follow.

Why is Debra Lafave on television?

In college, I stood in awe looking up at the moon knowing Neil Armstrong was up there walking on it. I listened as Dick Gregory came to our campus and reminded me, “Us older folk have messed things up, now you young folk are going to come along and change the world!” I loved our new governor, a former actor named Ronald Reagan as he brought a freshness and a charisma to California. I changed my major to Government, raised my grade point average and while at Sacramento State, I worked as an intern in the Capitol for my assemblyman, Frank Murphy, because I believed in what he and others were doing to make our world a better place.

Why is Debra Lafave on television?

Young people today need and deserve leaders to look up to as they struggle to figure out their lives and make a success of themselves. They need role models just like I did. When they turn on their television sets, it would be great if they could listen to the wisdom and words of someone who has truly accomplished something wonderful and explained how the greatness that they achieved unfolded in the way that it did. Instead, over the past several years the youth of this country have been exposed to O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, Madonna, Scott Peterson, Mike Tyson and now…Debra Lafave, who is using her hour of fame to, “tell her side of the story.” It was an hour of contradictions, mental illness, denial, more personal irresponsibility, lying and manipulation to send a clear message to the young people of this great country…

That message is, “Do whatever you feel like doing and ultimately, over time and with a great lawyer, you can spin your way out of anything as though it never really happened.” Had Debra pulled this crap in the generation I grew up in, she would not be under house arrest with an ankle bracelet; she would be in prison no matter how good-looking she is in the eyes of the world. Instead of, “telling her story” on national television, she would be chanting it to her cellmate who would be laughing hysterically at her constantly changing depiction of events. Instead of sitting in a green room munching on grapes and having her make-up adjusted, she would be mopping floors in a prison lavatory and cleaning up the same kind of dung that typified her pathetic interview with Mr. Lauer. She is not a role model. She is not a heroine. She should not be exposed to young people in ANY format. She has never accomplished anything that could be construed as meriting an interview with anyone other than a psychiatrist or a warden. Shame on NBC. Shame on the local stations that carried it. Shame on the media for publicizing this deceitful woman who continues to twist the story in her favor. The question remains….

Why is Debra Lafave on television? CRO

copyright 2006 Patrick Hurley

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