September is a big month for reality television. Last week, The Real World Philadelphia debuted. As is tradition, the obligatory homosexual character, this season it's Willie, came out of the closet to his roommates on day one. To break this formulaic boredom, Karamo, who sounds like DMX and looks like he plays power forward for the New York Knicks, announced that he was gay too. Although the openly gay co-creator of The Real World, Jonathan Murray, admitted that a mere one to two percent of the applicants for a recent season were homosexual, he selected two gay men for the cast of seven strangers this time around. What agenda do you suppose he's pushing?
King of all reality shows, Survivor, kicks off a new season this week, while The Apprentice premiered last week. Right now, I'm into the budding romance between Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielson on The Surreal Life. Nielson stumbles through the house naked, while an--I'll be kind--overcaffeinated Flavor Flav yells his own name at all hours of the night while wearing viking headgear. New Kids on the Block's Jordan Knight, American Idol's Ryan Starr, frequent '80s sit-com guest Charro, and Full House's David Coulier are resigned to look on in horror. Flav is on the wrong side of sanity ("Yeeeaaah! Boy!"), while Nielson is on the wrong side of sobriety. Last night on VH1's The Surreal Life, they sort of, well, consumated their relationship--or its least that's what clever editing made viewers believe. The current Surreal Life is the best bad television to come along since P. Diddy sent the contestants of Making the Band to fetch his cheesecake in Brooklyn.
Is it little wonder that Bush supporters watch reality television. How can any human being acccept the narrow, regressive, and reactionary ideology that conservatism is without thier brains first being numbed by advertising and reality TV.
DB: Is it little wonder that liberals haven't mastered the English language well enough to know when to use a question mark. And how often have you accused other of ad hominems. Besides, aren't 'regressive' and 'reactionary' redundant.
yeah, all Bush supporters watch reality tv and Kerry supporters dont. Good one db. In fact I bet all people who watch MTV are Bush supporters, it would explain the heavy conservitive bias in their Rock the Vote specials.
Dan, I have to admit that I have been breaking out of my strict tv diet of c-span and cable news for some Surreal Life and a little bit of the new Real World. I find my conservatism at work when watching the Real World - A)this is why I don't want to have daughters or B)if I have a daughter she won't be like that. Also, it's interesting to see that the southern straight boy from Tennessee felt he needed to apologize to Karamo right off the bat - shake his hand, hug him and comfort him letting him know that he's cool with it. Now what the hell is going on here? I view myself in the same category as a homosexual, we are all sinners. But I can't think of any of my sins that I would advertise only to have people high-five me and hug me telling me it's all good.
The Surreal life - what a great concept. Thus far my laugh meter has been boosted mostly by flavor flav and his mannerisms, but I can't understand what Brigitte is doing hooking up with him.
Rob: Your stereotypes are affecting your judgment. Just because Flav is an incredibly unhealthy crack-head rapper who dresses like a nine-year old boy, you can't see how affectionate, suave, respectful of women, and downright cuddly Flav can be.
The question is: what is he doing with her!
you people are sad.
ohhh come on DB, take a break from the chomsky books and have a beer.
Something we can all agree on. :)
The question DB, what kind of beer? For me, give me the mass produced cheap beer - coors light, miller light, natural light, busch light etc.
