By Connie Kaplan, RegainAmerica Staff Writer, May 30, 2008

Presenting Lynn Spears - Mother of the Year

Mrs. Lynn Spears, of Kentwood, LA, is Mom to two of America's Role Models; namely, Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears.

We all know the fun loving Spears girls.  26 year old Britney was for a while, one of the top music performers in the world with a fortune estimated to be worth upwards of 150 million dollars.  Then she married her back-up dancer, popped out two babies born less than one year apart, got divorced, and, after demonstrating an almost palpable craziness along with a complete inability to care properly for her infants, was subjected to having her babies removed from her home by Court Order (they were sent to live with papa Kevin Federline).

Thereafter the Britster completed her puzzling transformation.  Having shaved her head of her pretty blonde(ish) tresses, the formerly perky pop star degenerated into a chain smoking, rags and tatters wearing, greasy food guzzling, Creature of the Night with a penchant for peculiar hair weaves and gas station pit stops.  Moving always in the center of a swarm of paparazzi, Britney Spears spent months tooling wildly around the streets of Los Angeles in her $100,000 Mercedes.  She hit another car while parking and then breezed off in spite of the fact that the entire incident was recorded by the faithful paparazzi.  She ran over a reporter's foot.  She sideswiped a car.  She was videotaped making a left turn on a major intersection, while texting a message.  And she wore her sunglasses at night.

At the behest of Mama and Papa Spears, the Court finally put Britney under a conservatorship, meaning that the Britster lost, in addition to custody of her kids, the control of her finances.  Now Papa Spears and a host of well-paid lawyers look after Britney's money.  These days Britney gets monitored visitation with her babies and looks a bit more tidy which is to say she looks less often like a strumpet.

On to Britney's baby sister, Jamie Lynn Spears.

Jamie Lynn is also a perky blonde and was the star of her own successful show called Zoey 101, on the kids network, Nickelodeon.  Things were presumably going along fairly well for Jamie Lynn until she found herself in the family way at age 16.

After Mama Lynn and Jamie Lynn apprised Nickelodeon of this turn of events (leading no doubt to more than one bottle of Pepto-Bismol being guzzled by the executives in charge of Zoey 101), Jamie Lynn found herself free to return to the Spears family compound in Kentwood, LA.

Jamie Lynn is due to give birth this summer.  In the meantime she has turned 17, picked out a puppy, and had a baby shower.  She and her baby's father, age 19, are frequently photographed running errands in Kentwood and in Missisippi (Wal-Mart is a favorite).  They have apparently bought a new house in which to play house.  There does not appear to be a wedding in the immediate future although Jamie Lynn may be waiting to get her figure back before walking down the aisle in white.  Or maybe the Spears are just tired of weddings. 

In any event, Lynn Spears' daughters are role models for the young people in America simply because the media and the public relations machines have made them so. 

The Saga of the Sisters Spears appears in virtually every tabloid and every entertainment website and every TV infotainment show.  They are discussed and blogged ad nauseum.  Their pictures are everywhere, often on the cover.   

And young America emulates the entertainment and sports celebrities they are shown.

Young people don't pick their role models - the media pick the models for them.

Case in point - Miley Cyrus and her alter ego Hannah Montana.  The two identities are almost fused in the minds of the Hannah Montana-mad tween girls.  According to reports, 15 year old Miley Cyrus is on target to earn almost a BILLION dollars if she stays out of trouble and if the Hannah Montana jauggernaut continues.

Case in point - the Olsen twins.  They're only 21 and already worth a billion dollars or so.  All made on the dollars of their tweener fans who have implored their parents to buy every single video, doll, and fashion accessory churned out by the "Mary Kate and Ashley" machine.

Case in point - the Hip Hop Generation.  The generation of baggy jeans and sunglasses and workboots and bling and mouth "grills".  And much, much, more.

Many music moguls made rich beyond reason - by young people who emulate their music, their fashion, their lifestyles.

The media machine has made Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears role models for America's young people.

And that is a mistake.

Because, if you strip away the money, and the celebrity "mystique" of these two girls, this is what you get:

A moronic 26 year old woman who married a man who was also a moron and had two babies back to back even though it is obvious that neither she or her husband were interested in being parents.  A 26 year old who is such an incompetent buffoon that she cannot take care of her two helpless infants.  A self-centered diva who couldn't be bothered to show up in Court for her own child custody hearings.  A grown woman who, when left to her own devices, can think of nothing better to do than cruise around town, chain smoking and texting and eating burritos.  A mother of two who, when left to her own devices, dresses like a trollop and enjoys it when pictures of her without panties, or wrapped only in a towel, are splashed all across the World Wide Web.

And her 17 year old sister.  Knocked up at 16 by her 19 year old boyfriend.  Unmarried.  Hasn't finished high school.  Picking out puppies and buying nappies at Wal-Mart.  How long before she tires of her new responsibilities?

Would you want your daughters and granddaughters to be like the Spears sisters? 

In any way?

If they didn't have the money and the celebrity to make it all whitewashed, Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears would be seen for who they really are - LOSERS.

 LOSERS

One way to start reclaiming some basic American values is to encourage Role Models who embody those values, while discouraging  celebrity Role Models such as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears.

Don't buy Britney's perfume.  Don't buy her records.  Don't buy her second-hand clothes.

It is highly unlikely that Jamie Lynn will show up again on Nickelodeon, but, if she does, don't let your kids watch her show.  And complain to the producers.  Tell them you don't want your tweener watching a knocked-up, unwed 16 year old.

What we should do, is continue to encourage, sponsor, and support, celebrity Role Models who best represent our traditional family values. 

Only in so doing can we hope to Regain America.

In the meantime, Lynn Spears was reported to be writing a book on motherhood.

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