Shame on them: Hollywood often creates ghastly zombie clowns who go from making one or two comedy appearances poking fun at their former images to pitiful careers doing nothing but (Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner). But Entertainment Weekly says the E! channel "comes pretty close to being obscene" in turning its reality-cams on the "human train wreck" of Anna Nicole Smith, telling viewers to laugh (slogan: "It's not supposed to be funny, it just is") at the busty, blowsy, "barely coherent" former model and trophy widow as she stumbles and whines befuddled through life, slurring her speech and dragging her wretchedly embarrassed 16-year-old son with her.
But then, what "reality" TV show would depict a party that lost the presidential vote, but used Enron and Halliburton corporate jets to fly paid operatives (three since rewarded with White House jobs) to stage a riot to shut down the ballot-counting? Or reveal that the outgoing administration prepared and gave the tainted triumphants a detailed warning about and plan for neutralizing Al Qaeda eight months before 9/11, only to see it ignored in favor of zealous pursuit of missile shields, tax cuts for the richer-than-rich, and energy plans dictated by Enron and Halliburton execs in secret meetings? I'm starting to think we're not just looking at the slimiest, highest-reaching scandals since Watergate and Teapot Dome; we're looking at systematic, fatcat corruption akin to the most fantastic fairy stories of clueless princes manipulated by evil viziers. Surreality TV.
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