Yeah, I can agree with you there. A Ricky Lake audience is more indicative of the majority of this country.
If a majority of the country is intelligent and thoughtful wouldn't there actually be, oh, I dunno, news on the 6 o'clock evening news instead of stories about liposuction, how to make sure you have cleaned the bacteria off your cutting board and JLo and Ben?
Maybe so. I like this country though. Especially b/c that Ricki Lake crowd and the FR crowd are free to do whatever they want within the law... even though both groups are very poorly educated on average.