Tag: Reality

What Happened To The History?

Recently in one of my “Random Thoughts” posts I asked the question……. Whose idea was it to have a History Channel without any history”?

I do not understand why we have a history channel with very little history on it, instead it is filled with gator chasers, catfish idiots and modern dumpster divers…..about the closet thing to history on the channel is “Ax Men”….why?  They are cutting down history by destroying old growth forest…..

Over the years I have said many things about GOP lawmakers….some not so good……and for maybe the first time in history(there is that word again) I find myself agreeing with Sen. Chuck Grassley. a Repub from Iowa….I know I am not too thrilled to find him and I agreeing on anything…but alas we do….

“I love history,” Grassley wrote in an email to The Washington Examiner. “A better understanding is going to strengthen our country. It’s going to strengthen patriotism.”

Plus non-history programming represents an unfulfilled promise by the network. “When I signed up for the History Channel on my satellite service, I expected to get history,” he said. “Instead, all I see are people chopping wood or driving trucks on an icy road.”

Back in February Grassley began tweeting about his discontent with the History Channel’s programming. “No history,” he tweeted “I used to get history. Why do we have such a channel when it doesn’t do history?”

As the Examiner reports, about a week later Grassley turned on the History Channel again and was still not pleased with what he saw. Again he took to Twitter to express outrage. “When will they put history back on the channel,” he tweeted.

The only thing we can learn by watching the History Channel is how NOT to fish for catfish or why you should avoid driving in the Arctic…….in other words NOTHING!

I am going to join him on his crusade on Twitter to get the History Channel to actually show history and leave the reality BS to the moronic channels like Tru TV……….

2010 Info Ink Movie Review #1

First of all, it is NOT a movie…even though the people participated would like it to be, it is rather a TV show…a reality piece of garbage and I will debate that it is NOT now nor ever will it be, entertaining……however a few conservs friends had badgered me about watching a show on TLC (The Learning Channel) to see what I thought of it…the show is Sarah Palin’s Alaska….to be honest I watched two episodes (that was I all I could take without throwing a brick through my Tellie)…….

If the show was actually about the natural wonders of the state…it would be more tolerable….but NOPE…it is about the Palin clan and their pretend adventures in paradise……we see the family fishing (and clubbing halibut)….canoeing and watching bears by the waters edge or the family out gunning for clay pigeons…..all of which does very little to promote the natural beauty of Alaska and everything in the promotion of Palin and her Tea Party political views…..her comments are loaded with political undertones…..like the bears,  Mama bear is teaching the cubs that you have to do everything for yourselves…no one will help you (according to the commentary of Palin) or her spotlight on the use of guns or…..and it went on and on…..

It was more like a long campaign ad for her and her possible political career….not about the beauty of her state and why we should be impressed with the vista that is Alaska…TLC should be pulled in front of the FCC for allowing a person to use a documentary format to reinforce a person political stands…….

It is a worthless piece of entertainment (about as entertaining as watching flies mate)  and a waste of perfectly  good air time…..

How About A New Reality Show?

We have Kate +8, we have Survivor, we have Dancing with the morons, we have ……….you pick it we have it.  And the thing is that they have millions upon millions watching the crap……since Americans have the attention span of a horny titmouse, why not another?

Have I peeked your interest?  Good……why not, since Americans cannot live without the drama of the Reality TV, put a political one on air?  One day it will be the major issues in the House and then the Senate.  We would eliminate all the BS lawyer speak and put it in simple terms that even a hillbilly in Mississippi can understand then at the end of the episode two phone numbers would be displayed, one for pass and one for reject, whatever the issue is.

This would give all the drama queens in Congress a chance to perform for the camera and we, the people, would vote on the issue.  All the yo-yos in Congress are playing to the media anyway and this would just give them a better venue.

Not only would it be entertaining but the people, the viewers, would actually learn something about the major issues and not depend on idiots like Beck, Limbaugh, etc.  We could finally have a semi-informed public, something the Founding Fathers said was necessary for the democracy to work.

Since we cannot seem to educate the people while they attend school, I was hoping to find another way of helping them learn…..I know yet another pipe dream…..oh well……

The Limits Of Good Taste

I have questioned the sanity of the entertainment media with Reality TV, UFC, etc.  But now I think that the American viewing public is just pathetic and sick.

Cable network Spike TV will soon be showing a program entitled, “1000 Ways To Die”, now the promos say that it is all about the ways people die, like hit by a car, attacked by an animal and such and all caught on tape.  Since the “Faces Of Death” series was so imporant to the movie rental business I guess Spike wanted to cash in on the insanity of the American people.

Is American society is sick that watching someone die is entertainment?  But I guess good taste is not an option when trying for ratings.  What could possibly be the next “big” deal in entertainment?  Maybe I should not have asked that question–the possibilities should scare you.