It's a sad state of affairs. There is absolutely no barrier of sexual behavior that TV network executives aren't willing to cross in a desperate gambit for ratings. There also seems be to no sleazy line that a squeaky clean teenage TV star or pop star won't cross to "break out" into grown-up stardom.

Both of these maxims were proven again by the CW show "Gossip Girl" with a group-sex plot. Its Nov. 9 episode depicted three friends completing a list that was supposedly printed in their college newspaper: "The 15 Things Every College Student Must Do Before Graduating." No. 11 was "Have a Threesome." And so they did.

One of the "liberated" college women in this three's-a-crowd spectacle was actress Hilary Duff, who earned millions as a teenager as the star of "Lizzie McGuire" on the Disney Channel and in Disney movies. Millions of impressionable children idolized her. They still do -- except that she's a different kind of role model now. Read On

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Eight months ago they moved home to Texas. Now we went to Texas, Dallas today, where former first lady Laura Bush went "On the Record."

We met Mrs. Bush at Southern Methodist University. Yesterday Mrs. Bush and former President Bush were at SMU unveiling their vision for the project they plan to work on for the rest of their lives.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Mrs. Bush, nice to see you.

LAURA BUSH, FORMER FIRST LADY: Thanks, Greta.

VAN SUSTEREN: This is home.

LAURA BUSH: This is home. This is Southern Methodist University, where I graduated a long time ago. Read On

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Sarah Palin took a beating from the mainstream media. From the second she arrived on the national scene, vicious lies were spread about her. And of course, the Anointed One's fans in the press, they never bothered to correct any of it. And a new book chronicles exactly how the Democrats, with the help of the Obama-mania media, were able to spread all of that misinformation about the former governor of Alaska. It's called "The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star." And the author of that book, Matthew Continetti, now joins us.

Good to see you.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI, AUTHOR, "THE PERSECUTION OF SARAH PALIN": Glad to be here. Read On

DAUGHTER USED IN SEX TRAFFICKING FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. —  The mother of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared in North Carolina was charged Saturday with human trafficking and other offenses, though authorities said they still did not know the girl's whereabouts.

Antoinette Nicole Davis, the mother of Shaniya Davis, faces a child abuse charge involving prostitution as well as filing a false police report, according to a news release from the Fayetteville Police Department. The release did not say whether the charges were related to her daughter's disappearance. Telephone messages and an e-mail left for police were not immediately returned.

Shaniya's mother reported the girl missing Tuesday morning from a mobile home community in Fayetteville, and authorities began searching nearby wooded areas. The following day a man described as Davis' girlfriend was arrested in the kidnapping but later released. Read On

A British woman who trapped her pedophile husband by posing as a teenage girl on the internet has been praised by a children's charity, Sky News reported. David Anthony Roberts, 69, asked a girl he believed to be aged 14 to have sex with him, not realizing he was having an online conversation with his wife Cheryl. Cheryl Roberts was so shocked she called in the police and The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, who discovered indecent images of children on his computer. Her husband admitted to police he would have been prepared to have sex with the 14-year-old from the internet chatroom if she had agreed to meet up with him. David Roberts, of Bridgend, south Wales, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday and ordered to attend a program for sex offenders as part of a three-year community order. He must also register as a sex offender for five years and is banned indefinitely from having contact in person or online with children under the age of 18. SKY News reporting.

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