I know friends who are fans of this mess and one of its "stars," the so-called Snooki, who our own President has mentioned not once but twice in speeches. I am deeply saddened by the former and totally unsurprised by the latter. Once again, our culture finds us embracing mediocrity and stupidity as an accepted norm. Only in America does somebody like this pile of shit and hair spray establish any sort of notoriety. Can we have someone organize a single moment where our entire population can hang their collective heads in shame?
It's bad enough that this "Snooki" is now on TV, lowering our average IQ on a weekly basis with her mono-syllabic grunts and moans. But, now, some numbskull at Gallery Publishers gives her a book deal and we're now subjected to this lunatic in print. There's a novel just out called "A Shore Thing" allegedly penned by 'Snooki" and, if you believe that, you also probably believe that water is a solid. These publishers have tons of nameless writers on staff to write these books by celebrities who don't have an education past the third grade level. Sadly, many of these ghost writers are probably quite good and undoubtedly have some unpublished manuscripts of their own gathering dust on a computer hard drive.
Instead, we get this. The "words" of "Snooki."
“Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky….He had an OK body. Not fat at all. And naturally toned abs. She could pour a shot of tequila down his belly and slurp it out of his navel without getting splashed in the face.”
Mark Twain, it's not. Even Dr. Seuss, it's not. How many employees at Gallery Publishers were wasted, devoting valuable time to promote this environmental waste?
But, wait, there's more...
The PR folks at Gallery worked overtime to get the word out on "A Shore Thing." And those bastions...or, in reality, bastards of American journalism at NBC jumped on it. Of course, any legitimate news reporting died at NBC sometime between the time Chet Huntley smoked his last cigarette and Tim Russert went buns up in the control room. So, it's no wonder when "Snooki" winds up on the once-revered and now embarrassing "Today Show" as an interview subject for Matt Lauer. I recently heard him referred to as a journalist and I laughed heartily for a week. The only time this lunkhead ever delivered any real news, he was riding a bicycle.
Gee, is there enough shame to go around for all the guilty parties?
Who is my monthly moron in all this?"Snooki" herself. Sure, but that's too easy.
Gallery Publishing? Grinning like Cheshire cats playing with yarn. They're making money.
Media outlets like NBC? Oh, sure, as if nobody isn't going to jump on a hot thing for ratings, no matter how deplorable.
How about the public who have inexplicably embraced this piece of garbage?
I vote all of the above.
Hello, everybody involved, you are my Morons of the Month for February 2011.
Dinner last night: Leftover antipasto pasta salad.
2 comments:
I didn't watch the clip because there are better things to do with six minutes and fifty-three seconds. Like scrubbing the toilet or staring into space.
Snooki (a name only a stuffed animal should have) may be the perfect example of brain-dead America: all extensions and sprayed-on tan. Nothing to say but given a national platform to say it.
Could your life be so empty, your imagination so lazy that you find time every week to stare at a non-entity named Snooki? Shame.
I just don't get the appeal of the show. Reminds me of the old put down "they think they are hot shit but they're nothing but cold diarrhea" except there are too many who think they are hot shit. They are truly modern day enemas, I mean, enigmas.
15thavebud
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