I'll Muuduhlize ya!
Posted on 05/31/2006 1:48:48 PM PDT by Stoat
I'm not a regular listener but it seems that he does get some things right.
I wasn't aware of that. How very sad.
Just very, very exploitive. Most of the people are poor, so it's a thrill for them to ride in a limo and stay in a decent hotel overnight.
Isn't Jerry Springer the one who would end each show with a "sincere" heart to heart monologue to the viewers, justifying the show in a moral context of "now we understand these poor folks better" or some similar drivel? And wasn't he a Mayor of Cincinnati at one time? A Democrat, of course. What an absolute waste of oxygen and living space, he is.
I believe so. The show is based in Chicago. The thing that was interesting in the show was the accents. A lot of Kentucky and rural Ohio.
The participants on stage were largely very, very poor folks who had some form of chaos in their lives. Typically this was the kind of chaos that arises from being poor and having a very, very short time horizon.
The folks in the audience -- basically a jeering crowd -- were blue collar. At the end of the show, they'd take a mic into the audience and allow them to insult the participants.
The whole spectacle was ugly stuff.
One of the many reasons why I hardly watch TV anymore at all....mainly just South Park and occasionally Mad TV. Most of the rest, in my view, merely represents time of your life that you won't get back.
Who also paid for a hooker with a check!
Jerry Springer? WOW....ROTFLMAO! He probably views that as a feather in his cap, and I'm sure that it endears him to his fans. A perfect representative of the Party of Clinton.
It was while he was mayor of Cincinnatti and it bounced!
OH LAWD!! I suppose then that there will be one Cincinnati hooker and one Cincinnati pimp who can no longer be counted upon as being loyal Jerry Springer supporters, but I'm sure that the rest of the Dems will find it all quite amusing and view it as further cause to support Dems in all political races.
I don't watch much TV, either. But what I do see I find disturbing.
Agreed, although I try awfully hard to avoid being pessimistic. I think that if I were a regular TV viewer, I would eventually become convinced that all people (except for me, of course) were complete idiots and in desperate need of intellectual and economic assistance....in other words, TV would rot my mind to the point of becoming a Democrat! :-)
So much on TV these days is about "stuff." Flashy cars, flashy homes, flashy lifestyles. Much of the offerings have replaced stories of people with stories of "stuff." Though I'm sure some would dispute this, a lot of the images reflect a ghetto attitude.
Possibly because the networks believe (rightly or wrongly) that ghetto and "hood" viewers as well as the prison population represont their largest and most faithful viewing demographic?
I didn't mean literally ghetto. I meant a "ghetto attitude." One of the best examples of this attitude is in McMansions, etc.
She just needs to take up eating and learn how to apply makeup.... or get rid of all the mirrors in her house.
I believe it's been shown that the time spent watching TV is USUALLY inversely proportiional to IQ. I think that I heard that on some evil, right-wing hate-radio program at some point :-)
I dislike talk radio as well. Come to think of it, I pretty much dislike all media. It's a garbage dump of bad ideas.
or Tina Louise
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