Hillbilly Television

Gotta vent, gotta vent before I burst.  Just walked in the house and the television was on so as I am cleaning up I am listening to an Entertainment News show discussing the string of Hillbilly reality shows popping up.  First let me state for the record, my opinion on "reality shows".  The networks and society in general are doing a great disservice to the people they put on these shows labeled "reality". Shows such as Top Chef or Project Runway even American Idol are at least competitions looking to showcase and possibly exploit an individuals talents. TALENT. BUT the housewives,teen moms,dance moms, Jersey people,etc., they are being enabled and really given a false sense of importance with the attention they receive for doing nothing more than being idots,douchebags,bad parents,and sometimes just good people who have made poor choices.  Not only do we do these people no favors by lifting them up to celebrity status we create a new generation of people who think this is the way to live and behave.  I have felt this way from day one and that is my opinion I am aware I live in a country where it may not be the majority opinion.  Now the next wave of shows out there labeled Hillbilly T.V.  One person was complaining that these people are being made fun of for their crude and unsofisticated ways and only have shows so they can be mocked.  Now wait a minute as opposed to who?  Snookie,Bethany, any of the other reality goofballs that should be banned from any type of media until they can display an actual talent or skill.  Don't tell me anyone out there is actually taking cues from anyone on these shows and using them as a moral compass to live their life by.  It's all entertainment and a joke and I feel like if the Basketball Wives can have a show well then so can the Gator Boys or the Wildman.  At least it seems there is a little more authenticity with these characters.  The exception (and I have never watched an episode of this show I only know what I have seen in promos or heard around the watercooler) but the Honey Boo Boos need to stop.  In a moral society it would NEVER be right to glamourize stupidity but again we are what we are.  BUT pulling an innocent child into this circus should be off limits and as much as the blame lies on a mother who would exploit her child as this woman does it also lies with the network who is handing over a paycheck and televising this car crash.   Then we are not just mocking knowing willing adults in this game we are laughing at a little girl who is growing up to be a joke and nothing more.  What does that say about us, really.