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.
Now why would TLC choose a family whose parent looks like Honey Boo Boo’s mother? Perhaps their casting a stereotype? /mild sarcasm
their = they’re
THAT is just disgusting. People actually watch this stuff?
She is the 2012 version of a comedienne.
Isn’t that....Meghan McCain?
Playing to the hog farm demographic?
Hey now...
Jackass was fun, and I love Ice Road Truckers......
I had a sticker like that, in 2000.
Finally followed the advice.
That was during the age of transistors, right after diodes, triodes, tetrodes, and pentodes were all the rage with the B+ voltages and filament voltages.
There was a dinosaur poster, and drinking glasses in laundry detergent thing as well.
Childhood was somewhat disturbing. Stack a cold war on top of that image...
/johnny
Eh, I love TV too. Mostly we watch cooking shows. Hubby cooks, not me! The shows inspire him, amazingly - they really do.
Tonight we had grilled bok choy because he saw Bobby Flay make it the other day. It was OK, a little bland.
Don’t tell hubby I said that, because next time it will be drenched in hot sauce!
We’ve watched that DVD. Excellent documentary.
Idiocracy is here, now.
We have an old TV in the attic that we occasionally use to watch a DVD. No TV elsewhere in the house, haven’t had cable since we were first married over 20 years ago. We’re in our 15th season of homeschooling. TV is a distraction we just don’t need and an evil influence we just don’t want in our home.
Good for you, more should live like that
A few weeks ago, I was told I was an egotistic attention whore because I said I have no use for television, and haven't had one since I misplaced the last ex-wife.
You and your family keep on being great. Television is overrated. Time with family (unless my youngest is driving) is priceless.
/johnny
That is one disgusting family. They take trailer trash to an all time low.
Mr C4E and I have been TV free for about 3 years now. Don’t miss it. We do watch DVD from time to time, but mostly talk radio, music and reading, and free republic of course. :-)
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