Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 31, 2007

However, I don't think you can read his letter asking for legal fees as evidence of him lacking contrition (although there is plenty of other evidence of that). Given the phase of the criminal process Joe is in, if he said anything along the lines of "I'm sorry to the people I hurt," or "to the women I scared," it would be an admission that would come back to haunt him by way of additional jail time.

I'm sure he's accepted that he'll be in jail for a while, but that doesn't mean he should double his time by apologizing in [a journalism] forum when there will be plenty of time to do that later. Whether he'll do that later is another story.
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Watson’s cross to bear: Thank you, Sarah Fenske, for not sensationalizing Joe Watson! He is and always has been a manipulator and has never had the balls to admit that he and only he is responsible for his actions and bad judgment in his life.

I met Joey about 10 years ago. He showed the puppy-dog eyes to me, and, well, four months later I was pregnant.

I can't explain what came over me, but I needed to lose this loser, and so I did. After seven years of him bouncing from job to job, I gave up and agreed to his relinquishing his parental rights without his having to pay a cent of the over $30,000 in back child support that he had incurred.

The kicker is that the last time he ever saw my child was nine years ago.

I just want those who are even contemplating donating to Joe Watson's cause to read this and think for a minute: If he wouldn't pay for his own child, do you really think he would give you a cent if you were in the same situation [as he is now]?
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