Party Crashers

White House Party Crashers Cause a Hangover

"Some media analysts blame incidents like the Salahis' apparent gate-crashing on a broader cultural shift: Americans' willingness to exploit themselves for fame and the hunger for ratings-grabbing events by cable-news shows, talk-show hosts, Web sites and magazines.

The enormous popularity of reality television also has given people the idea that being a celebrity is possible for everyone, they say."

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"The media business is the new Ellis Island: Give me your talentless, give me your hoaxes and I will put anything on my air," said Robert Thompson, professor of television at Syracuse University.

Wall Street Journal


Although I am, and I'm sure most people are, still not sure what in the world Michaele and Tareq Salahi were doing crashing a White House state dinner, the paragraphs above show that I'm not the only one thinking the same thing. Another possible "Balloon Boy" story.
I still cannot fathom how people bear to watch reality shows. While some shows still have potentials, such as "American Idol" or "America's Next Top Model" because at least the winners can get a contract and become additional famous celebrities, most reality shows are just.... horrific? Horrendous? Terrible? Embarrassing? Just bad.

I took the courage to watch a few clips of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" the other day. After watching it, I found myself in awe of how these rich, talentless, uneducated, undisciplined, self-absorbed, famous-for-nothing people can have their own show about their dramatic boring lives. And what makes it worse is that the mom is just as clueless as her daughters.
Here are two clips, and let me just say that YOU ARE WARNED.




Watch her go to jail, Celebrity style!