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Is Honey Boo Boo A Scam?
September 7, 2012 | This Just In

Posted on 09/07/2012 11:01:54 PM PDT by This Just In

Is Honey Boo Boo A Scam?

In our home you will not find televised programming. No Nightly News (or as some would say-Nightly sNewz), no game shows, no DIY, no infomercials or reality TV. I’ll admit that there are some drawbacks. No golf, no Olympic coverage, no football, baseball, or basketball. There’s no live coverage of any sporting events, but these drawbacks are of little consequence. On each and every occasion in which we travel, and are provided with the opportunity to sit in our hotel rooms and stare at the one-eyed monster, my family and I are reminded of why we dumped televised programming in the first place many years ago.

Case and point: ‘Here Comes Honey Boo’

This program is just one of a plethora of examples as to why we believe detriment far outweighs the benefit public television offers society today. The fact that TLC, as well as Honey Boo Boo’s family, appears to have no problem in exploiting this “6 year old pageant sensation” is reason enough to be appalled and motivation enough to "Just Say No" to tv. What is more striking to me is the fact that many in our society fail to realize that this program is designed to actually ridicule and mock the “country folk“ in “flyover country”, or as some would like to say, “hicks” and “rednecks”, as well as reinforce the stereotype. If viewers fail to see the correlation between the timing of this program and this election cycle-and its historical significance, it’s no wonder America is in over its head.

Such programming has enabled the media to successfully normalize ease dropping, if you will. In fact, they’ve glorified it. A right to personal privacy? What’s personal privacy? Respect for ones space? Who cares about ones space? After all, aren’t we a “community”? The deterioration of the concept of personal privacy has been perpetuated no thanks-in part-to these influences and the mindset by which they are created by.

Americans are more than happy to sit on their couches and allow TLC and the programs creators to mock them. All the while saying that it’s just “entertainment”. Watching a precocious 6 year old strut her stuff down the catwalk while dressed up like Lady Gaga (I use the term “Lady” lightly) on steroids is hardly entertaining. It’s disturbing.

And yet viewers settle into their cozy living rooms week after week, in the privacy of their own homes, and peer into the “personal” business of what has become a very public life. Honey Boo Boo and her family are more than happy to please our curiosity, and their narcissistic naval gazing. I'm sure Momma Honey Boo Boo's bank account is living pretty large as well (no pun intended).

In her comments concerning ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’, Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski stated, “…sums up everything I have to say about America, and what we need to do.” EVERYTHING about America? What-exactly-does Ms. Brzezinski and the “we” she’s referring to need to do? What is she eluding to?

Mika Brzezinski’s comments encapsulates the mindset of those on the Left, and their disregard, if not disdain, for “flyover country” Americans. And reality programs like ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’ attempts to reinforce and justify that mindset, as well as the supposed “need to do” something.

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is not just about a little girl. It’s about a societies descend into indifference, complacency, and indecency. The mainstream media has been our tour guide and instructor in taking us by the hand and leading Americans down that path of destruction.

It’s time to tell the tour guide to take a hike, and take the lead, America.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chitchat; trashtv; vanity
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To: pnut22

That sounds yummy!


81 posted on 09/08/2012 6:18:24 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: This Just In
What I find disturbing is that even networks like the History Channel and NatGeo are being filled with this reality TV mania. The "reality" shows are becoming like the movie of a few years ago The Truman Show where the entire life being depicted was a total fabrication. Frankly I am sick of shows about guys driving their trucks over the ice, people picking through someone's trash heap to find "treasures", smart aleck pawn shop owners, foul mouthed loggers and gold miners and most disgusting of all idiotic parents forcing their young children into ludicrous beauty pageants. I have long ago quit watching network TV shows, but now find that even the cable networks are becoming every bit as trashy. I am becoming convinced that the movie Idiocracy is as prophetic of where we are headed as was Orwell's 1984
82 posted on 09/08/2012 6:18:46 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: dfwgator

We watched that the other night. I noticed that I didn’t laugh even once. It was too close to present reality.

*Jackass* _is_ “Ow, My Balls!”


83 posted on 09/08/2012 7:00:54 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: pnut22; jocon307

The Baby Bok Choy is a great spinach substitute and I use it in a spinach salad w/bacon dressing. It is also great braised w/sesame oil.

You can grow it in a pot by the window. Mature in a few weeks and lasts longer than most dark greens in the frig.


84 posted on 09/08/2012 7:07:39 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: This Just In
What is more striking to me is the fact that many in our society fail to realize that this program is designed to actually ridicule and mock the “country folk“ in “flyover country”, or as some would like to say, “hicks” and “rednecks”, as well as reinforce the stereotype. If viewers fail to see the correlation between the timing of this program and this election cycle-and its historical significance, it’s no wonder America is in over its head.

The author apparently doesn't have the ability to laugh at himself.

I WILL DEFEND "GREEN ACRES" UNTIL THE DAY I DIE!

Meanwhile the author also apparently has no problem with the internet and it's misinformation, propaganda and need I mention PR0N? Don't like Honey Boo Boo? Don't watch it. It's Freedom to choose.

85 posted on 09/08/2012 7:44:54 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: Coldwater Creek

Out of curiosity, I tuned in to the first episode of this show. I had to turn it off because I got nauseated watching the family bob for raw pigs’ feet. Also, seeing the black dirt crusted on the mother’s elbows didn’t help. I think part of the aim of the show’s producers is to portray these throwbacks as typical Southerners.

The Boo-Boo bunch refers to themselves as rednecks, but they are not. I live in a rural Virginia farming community which is filled with rednecks-—in other words, good people who work outside with their hands. There’s nothing shameful AT ALL in being a redneck, and they are nothing like the trash on this show.


86 posted on 09/08/2012 8:03:22 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: Lazamataz
YES! Most if not all TV reality shows are scripted.

What I would like to know about Honey Boo Boo is which came first...her internet videos or the program?

To that end this could very well be the Next Big Thing.

Misty Prepper You Tube channel

Or her Gardens and Guns

I believe she has several YouTube channels As well as Facebook and Twitter accounts and a website.

She cooks on a wood stove, shoots, gardens, hunts, butchers animals and lives what seems to be a rewarding, simple life with her family.

Lots of GREAT prepper info! She is my HERO! Can't wait for the TV program!

The only video I question is the one where she and her girls are splitting wood. As someone who has split wood for a LONG time I can say it's lucky she didn't get seriously hurt.

87 posted on 09/08/2012 8:31:37 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Honey Boo Boo's mama:

Can you say "hawg"? I knew you could!

88 posted on 09/08/2012 8:32:11 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: prisoner6; All
Oops! Didn't check my links before I hit post. They ALL WORK but the Channel page is her Southern Meal video. You'll have to find her homepage yourself, I has to get a cookin'.
89 posted on 09/08/2012 8:34:28 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: mn-bush-man

I have noticed with having music or radio, daily activities, conversations can continue on; but with TV all things must stop as attention is rivited to the TV. Maybe its me, cause I’m a visual person.


90 posted on 09/08/2012 9:45:07 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
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To: This Just In

belly flopping into a mud bog is not being a redneck.. doing it into a nice stinky gooey pig sty and smiling afterwards is. TLC likes gooey and stinky for some reason.;-)


91 posted on 09/08/2012 9:47:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: jneesy

How is boxee?


92 posted on 09/08/2012 9:51:19 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: This Just In

That’s all we do with ours, that and my XBox 360.


93 posted on 09/08/2012 10:08:08 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: This Just In

So basically it hells version of Sheryl Temple...


94 posted on 09/08/2012 11:08:56 AM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: antceecee

I read something the other day that said the family only makes $4,000 per episode. My wife likes the little girl but I refuse to watch people who are too ignorant to know they are being mocked. They sold their dignity and honor for a paltry sum of money if that’s really what they make per episode.


95 posted on 09/08/2012 1:03:59 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I agree. Many are using the term “red neck” when they mean “white trash”. There is a big difference. Red neck is a respectable term....white trash, not so.


96 posted on 09/08/2012 4:09:59 PM PDT by jch10 (America needs some R and R!)
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To: jch10

Yes, exactly.


97 posted on 09/08/2012 5:52:35 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: I still care

I would think all those shows are cheaper to make than having to hire competent writers who know how to do a decent tv show...I caught reruns of the old Barney Miller show and its still funny and not at all dated...no politics in the show...Fraser is still funny, Old Bob Newhart shows in reruns are still good...hardley any thing put on in the last 10 years is funny or well written except NCIS (love that show) Oh and WKRP another good rerun...most of these shows are 15-20 years old and still hold up. Now they are sexed up and liberal political messages for us all....yuk


98 posted on 09/08/2012 7:55:02 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: gemoftheocean

I would never consider submitting this thread as a professional essay. It’s not worthy of that entry. It was a post as a immediate reaction to a story and observation.

I do appreciate your candour, though. BTW, I’m joking...about the “candour”. :^)


99 posted on 09/08/2012 10:34:47 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: Lacey2

Well, Lacey2, I’m not really suggesting that Americans should give up televised programs.

What I am saying is that there are a lot of Americans who are indifferent to the ideology and philosophy behind these programs, and the detrimental affect it has on society. I am saying that we should exercise sound judgment and discernment when we tune-in, examine some of these programs with a critical eye in order to recognize and filter the messages which are being conveyed.

Should we filter Alton Brown, or the Pawn Shop? No. These shows are straight-forward. Should we examine historical documentaries with a skeptical eye? Yes. I believe you understand my point.

Finally, to tune-out and off is of no consequence to individuals. If anything, it’s of great benefit. There are a number of anecdotes on this very thread which illustrates my point.


100 posted on 09/08/2012 10:49:24 PM PDT by This Just In
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