All posts tagged "Reality Tv"

Reality TV legend and former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Lisa Rinna doesn't think that former reality TV star Spencer Pratt should be the next Los Angeles mayor, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.

Rinna was attending the American Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and told Variety she has doubts about a fellow reality star taking on a government position — taking a dig at another former reality TV star turned politician — current President Donald Trump. Trump was formerly the host of NBC's reality show "The Apprentice."

Variety asked Rinna who she planned to vote for in the upcoming election. ...

HGTV has fired the host of a long-running show and pulled it off all platforms after she was caught making a racist slur.

Nicole Curtis, the star of "Rehab Addict," was under fire after she was caught saying a racial slur in a video — and then begging the crew to delete it. The shocking video never aired, and Curtis appeared to acknowledge she should not have said the racial epithet, according to a report from Radar.

"What the f--- is that I just said?" Curtis said, laughing as the HGTV crew off-camera also laughed. "Nick, you gotta, you gotta, can you kill that? F--- my life."...

HGTV star Nicole Curtis was under fire Wednesday after she was caught saying a racial slur in a video — and then begging the crew to delete it.

The shocking resurfaced video never aired and Curtis appeared to acknowledge she should not have said the racial epithet, according to a report from Radar.

"What the f--- is that I just said?" Curtis said, laughing as the HGTV crew off camera also laughed. "Nick, you gotta, you gotta, can you kill that? F--- my life."...

[rebelmouse-image 24750248 original_size="560x375" expand=1]This has been a pet theory of mine for awhile, and I even tried to sell a book that was based partially on it some time back, so I'm thrilled to see Richard Florida embracing it and really spelling it out in easy-to-digest terms. 

At Netroots Nation, I picked up a copy of Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles Pierce, and thoroughly enjoyed its often-hilarious, generally impatient, occasionally lyrical examination of the stranglehold Idiot America has on our once-great nation. Pierce's great contribution to the growing pile of books bemoaning the same loss is to distinguish between the American crank, a species he has great respect for, and Idiot America. The difference is a simple one: cranks know their place. They don't vie for power or mainstream acceptance. They offer their crank ideas to the world and let them subvert the common wisdom, but don't employ volume, power, and money to elevate crankery to a level of prestige it doesn't deserve. The good cranks in Pierce's eyes are JFK assassination conspiracy theorists (except probably Oliver Stone), the Mormons in Joseph Smith's era, and the guy who came up with the theory that Atlantis is the source of all civilization. Idiot America, however, is George Bush suggesting that we should "teach the controversy" over evolution. Idiot America are the people who tried to lay claim to Terri Schiavo's body that encased her slowly liquefying brain. Idiot America is Justice Scalia referencing "24" as if it had any bearing on how torture works in the real world.