New Reality TV: Politics

By Casey Knox

So now that you've seen every reality TV program combination we could come up with, played all the video games you care to, and watched all the recent movies that are out on video, now what do you do? Well, for me its been watching the newest form of reality TV..... today's politics. A year ago you couldn't strap me down and make me watch politics. I believed, and still do, that there is no way to really get the straight story by watching news channels, but these days you just can't make up the stuff that is going on.  It's totally as entertaining as watching Snookie fist pump.  Just flip back and forth between fox news and MSNBC, and you have some of the greatest "reality" playing out on television today. And wait - I haven't even mentioned the actual candidates who are running to help govern these United States. Witches, Nazis and inarticulate unemployed army veterans - the cast is outrageous.

But let's be serious for a minute....there have always been looneys. Why have they recently not only come out of the woodwork, but been accepted by a large portion of the voting public? I think its because reality TV has actually done to America what we've all joked about it doing. We've all heard someone talk about a random reality show: "If you watch that show, your IQ will drop about 100 points".  Maybe that is what's going on... not an actual drop in our IQs but an acceptance of mediocrity and uneducated thought as the norm. Yes, the reality TV craze truly is the dumbing of America.

But if that doesn't scare you, be sure to tune in to Indecision 2010 for the latest in reality hijinks.