A Stupid Reward

If you were ever wondering why our entire country is headed down the flusher, I can tell you why - we reward stupidity.

An example. Quick, anyone, name who won this year's Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. Anyone, anyone? Bueller? That's what I thought. These are awards for the smartest of the smart. People changing the way we think and do things... for the better.

On the other hand, we have reality shows that exploit people's intelligence and hunger for fame, while paying them very little and giving them their 15 minutes, albeit an embarrassing 15 minutes. Every channel is jumping on board with dumber and dumber programming each year. The Bachelor became Rock of Love and some other dumb shows. Shows where something actually happened became The Hills and The City. Whitney has a short skirt on today and new boy trouble - thirty minutes, gone. Can't wait for the next episode. I bet she'll wear pants.

Joe the Plumber (neither a Joe or a plumber) shot to star-"dumb" because he couldn't understand what Obama was explaining to him about taxes. Mccain lost the election and where is Joe now... a war correspondent. He now has another job title that he doesn't actually do, or is, or is he even still named Joe?

To get to the real reason of how we reward stupidity, I just have to say "Octamom." A woman who has six kids, basically living on student loans and disability, absolutely no thoughts on the future, decides she needs to more than double her child count. She needed more... and faster. Which leads me to wonder, does she have friends? Shouldn't there have been someone there to say, "No more. You have enough. You aren't going to beat Angelina." Was there no one there to say it?

She went out of her way to have eight more. She said it was God's plan. She needed a donor. Let's think about this rationally. Maybe her inability to have children naturally or one at a time was God's way of telling her something. NO MORE KIDS! Lady, it's a vagina, NOT a clown car!

She hired a publicist, who falls into the same area as Joe the Plumber, begging the question is she actually a publicist. I've haven't seen someone freeze on TV and bumble around easy questions like that since Sarah Palin. Small world... everything connects here.

This mother of 14, for now, has made her rounds on the Today Show, Dr. Phil, and more. Why is this important programming to watch? Because she has psychological issues that can be exploited. We don't have to think. We can just sit back and laugh. I mean as long as you only have 13 kids you're better off than her, right?

Smart people don't really make the headlines or appear on TV. Throw out news shows and documentary shows and there is no sign of three digit intelligence on TV, and if there is, it's barely three digits.

We don't want to think. We don't want to read. We want to watch others try to think and stutter when they read. Which leads to the final question: Are they the stupid ones or are we?