So you are judging that my emotional and intellectual responses are phony? Good work! Wow! Im impressed! All the way through the internet! Well, phony is probably not the right word. I am sure that you aren't faking it. But, sitll, somewhere down the line you have convinced yourself to get outraged over petty things that others do that have no effect on you.
I hate to be one sticking up for NBC, but they would have caught just as much flack if they did not air the material.