Disneyland TV

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's no surprise to see Disney use that particular public airwave as their own personal advertising tool. Reality show contestants end up at Disneyworld. TV shows are filmed at some fake-ass Disney resort. And now, to fulfill the nightmare vision of "The Truman Show"--and it was a nightmare vision, network execs, not a primer--ads for Disney have crept into the dialog of even good TV shows. In a recent episode of Scrubs, Turk was upset with JD because he thought JD had gone to Disneyland without him. He went into some depth on the various rides at Disneyland and how much fun they were and man! he wanted to be there with JD!

Obnoxious. And you can't blink an eye without seeing Disney cyborg Miley Cyrus on the cover of EVERYTHING. I get the Kansas City Star, and she was on the cover of the front page one day and the cover of the entertainment section a day later! That, and the fact that the opinion section is full of letters from right-wing nut jobs, is the reason that I'm going to drop my new subcription. She's on TV, she's hosting crap, she's at the hand-me-a-trophy awards, everywhere. It's all too much. Just how fascinating can a 16-year old be?

But nothing tops the ABC morning show the other day. You know that little 8-year old who was murdered by her Sunday school teacher? Her idiot aunt and uncle were making the rounds (two morning shows at the same time--quite a trick!) talking about how the family was so devastated that someone just had to go on TV and tell the world how devastated they were. And when the ABC morning show host asked the aunt and uncle what they were going to miss most about the little girl, the aunt starts talking about how she was such a lively and fun little gal and--wait for it--how she loved--you guessed it!--Disneyland! And wasn't it fun when she thought the Disneyland princesses were the real thing AND, oh!, how she loved going on the various rides--and she named at least one of them and kinda sorta described it. I gotta tell ya, dear reader, my bullshit meter kinda sorta exploded.

Does anyone understand why the family and friends of murder victims go on TV often immediately after the death and give interviews? First off, it's not national news. Secondly, who are these assholes? To think of my brother or sister-in-law going on TV and carrying on about my dead child--urgh. And they would never, ever do that and that's why I don't understand these people. Are they so desperate to be on TV that they would enable the networks to make a profit off of the murder of anyone, and especially a little child? It's absolutely revolting. I'm sure I've said more than enough for all dear readers to get me on this.

I don't know. I really think that ABC had a hand in what this idiot couple said about Disneyland and that little girl.

I just watched the movie "Idiocracy" the other day. It has its flaws, but the filmmakers are right to worry about a future America taken over by the copious breeding of dumbasses. A world full of stupid people who loved violence and sex and whose favorite TV show was called "Ow! My Balls!" It was supposed to be 500 years in the future. It cut a little close to home.