that s why the couch was buzz buzzing. no one is going to school today. i thought someone put a quarter in it. that s a whole different thing, steve. coming up, are american kids going soft? a new study shows less and less children are playing team sports. larry wingate here next. first, a fox & friends trivia question of the day. born on this date in 1943, this actress played the wife of robert deniro in this 2000 comedy meet the parents. who is she in be the first to e-mail us with the correct answer.
0 head with president obama. why didn t you fire sebelius, the secretary in charge of this? i m a taxpayer and i m paying kathleen sebelius salary and she screwed up and you re not holding her accountable. the president tries to hold bill o reilly tries to hold the president s accountable. wait until you hear the president s response. more of the fox news exclusive straight ahead. a genius on the big screen but a tortured soul off it. oscar winning actor philip seymour hoffman found dead with a needle in his arm. we have a live report from his home. fox & friends starts right now. you are watching fox & friends. i apologize. live from new york city, tried to toss before the captains picked heads or tales. obviously the seattle seahawks went on to win but throughout the night joe namath s coat on twitter was completely lambasted. for instance, off of twitter, joe namath s cope just coat just bit two people. and on and on and on. that coat was about what he wore.
because he s a victim of his family s wealth. he reportedly lived in his own mansion where he threw wild parties. the story is spurring a whole lot of outrage about parental responsibility. here is what larry winget had to say about it on fox & friends earlier. being responsible has nothing to do with money. there are poor parents who do a great job teaching personal responsibility. but there are rich parents who also do a great job teaching personal responsibility. it s not about the money. it s about your willingness as a parent to sit down and teach your kid what that means and impose consequences. couch was sentenced to ten years probation rather than the 20-year sentence the prosecutors pushed for. so we asked you and we re getting a lot of comments about this so-called aziza disease. one said the why should get a
suicidal man back into the building he was trying to jump from. steve? thank you, elisabeth. in skwroupb a texas teenager in june a texas teenager killed four people and injured nine others while he was driving drunk. his defense? he was suffering from affluenza telling the court he never learned right from wrong because his parents were wealthy. he was from a very successful family. the judge agreed giving him a ten-year probation rather than a 20-year sentencing there was push for. what kind of message what kind of example is that? can we look for more affluenza pleas because it seemed to have benefited this guy. larry wingate is here to weigh in. is affluenza a good excuse? what what a sad place in our society where we can turn being affluent into a disease and lack of responsibility into a
money to get your values and morals across? no. actually i believe it might have been easier because i told them and showed them through my results that if you do the right thing, take responsibility for your actions, work hard and become affluent, then that s what you really should be striving for. again, being responsible has nothing to do with money. there are poor parents who do a great job teaching personal responsibility. but there are rich parents who also do areat job teaching personal responsibility. it s not about the money. it s about your willingness as a parent to sit down and teach your kids what that means and to impose consequences. right now we live in a spoet where we don t we live in a society where we don t impose consequences when we see bad behavior. that is the problem. that is the problem. larry wingate s latest book is called grow a pair. the quote from that segment right there, affluenza is a