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    Octodad x 10

    Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:47 AM | By Emily Yoffe
    On Good Morning America the other day, reporter Chris Cuomo, who's covering the "biggest things" in Dubai, did a story on a man who has 86 kids ranging in age from 23 years to 3 months. Daad Abdul Rahamn, 63, has a production line of 17 wives—and he'd like a few more—who are 50 to 20 years old. The most stunning thing about the report is not that there is a man with this kind of harem (Osama Bin Laden is one of 53 siblings), it is the gleeful double-entendre-laden cheeriness with which Cuomo reports this repulsive story. Cuomo takes the stance that Rahamn is quite the stud (Cuomo chuckles when Rahamn reveals he has to pay his kids to leave the room so he has enough privacy to impregnate the wives) and promises to come back when Rahamn (who Cuomo keeps referring to as "Daad" ha-ha-ha) reaches his goal of 100 kids. Apparently there is no one at ABC News who thought that perhaps a voice from a Muslim women's group that is fighting the abuse of polygamy might usefully temper Cuomo's celebration.
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