Needless to say I'm a very proud D-Kos Dad tonight!!!! Please check below the squiggle for my daughter's, Holly Otterbein who reports for Philadelphia Magazine, interview on the Last Word tonight! Also, she will be on the Today Show tomorrow morning. You can be sure I'll post that too!!! Those Penn State frat boy-creeps need to answer to a tough reporter like her!
http://on.msnbc.com/...
Also see the original article by Holly:
http://www.phillymag.com/...
Here are a few of the questions from Holly from the article and some really creepy responses from the frat boy:
Philly Mag: In the statement you provided to us, you said "everyone … does the same old stuff." Do you know other fraternities that have similar Facebook pages?
KDR member: No.
Philly Mag: Then what did you mean?
KDR member: What I meant is that everybody fools around, everybody makes jokes, everybody occasionally engages in … what might be considered inappropriate behavior, and it's not just, shall we say, when somebody happens to be caught doing the same thing that everyone else is doing … [and] they're just tossed in the crowd, you know. Like back in the Middle Ages, they would find a witch or somebody who the community thought was a witch or something like that and toss them to the crowd, you know? When the person's no different than anyone else.
Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/...
Philly Mag: But isn’t there a difference between a swimsuit model and a woman who is photographed unconsciously?
KDR member: Right, so that's what I was saying … on those sites, it's not just swimsuit models. It's girls doing stuff at parties. It's people putting themselves in provocative situations and things like that.
Philly Mag: The first secret Facebook page was allegedly called "Covert Business Transactions." Then, according to the police warrant, KDR took that page down after a victim saw a photo of herself topless on it and threatened the fraternity. Why did KDR relaunch the page?
KDR member: Well, the site, first of all, was primarily used for communication for important fraternity business and so forth and so on. The questionable postings are single instances out of hundreds, if not thousands, of different postings that are related to stuff like community service to THON, which is our charity organization, to social events and so forth and so on. Once in a blue moon, there was a questionable post of this sort that everybody's now referring to … We obviously need a group to communicate. Some chapters use listservs, other chapters use Facebook groups, so it's not like, oh, this was a group that was intended for distribution of this kind of material. Not at all. This was a group intended for, right, communication within the fraternity.
Read more at
http://www.phillymag.com/...
1:18 AM PT: Update: Holly will be on the Today Show this morning!!!