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The Five Takes On The Scourge That Is Reality Television

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by Jon Bershad | 7:04 pm, October 18th, 2011

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Finally. The war on reality television has begun.

While I’ve been trumpeting the need to exterminate this blot upon our culture for years, it wasn’t until today that things really started moving in earnest. First, we got word that President Obama was an enemy of the demonic Kardsashian clan, and now the hosts of The Five spent an entire segment discussing how the Jersey Shore‘s and Real Housewives of Hades‘ of the world are destroying our nation’s children.

Yes! Let the great cleansing begin!

Of course, I don’t necessarily agree with the reasoning behind all of the hosts’ arguments. Greg Gutfeld’s assertion that getting rid of reality TV will end teenage bullying better than school anti-bullying programs is just silly. How can he explain the fact that some of the worst bullying in our schools falls upon LGBT children and some of the most popular reality shows are on Bravo, the most gay friendly place this side of an Elton John birthday party? Trying to connect the two is just silly. Still, if Gutfeld wants to fight in the war against all the Kate Gosselin’s and Snooki’s, I’d gladly fight alongside him no matter how misguided his thinking.

Unfortunately though, this being The Five, there had to be one odd person out. Doing her best to destroy any credibility she may have had, Andrea Tantaros attempted to…*shudder*…defend reality shows, claiming that, after a hard day’s work, she just wanted to turn her mind off.

Hey, Andrea! You know who else turned their mind off? The Germans in the 1930s!

Hopefully, Tantaros will see the error of her ways as we, the righteous, begin our crusade of truth.

Side note: In case any reader is confused by the fact that I seemed to be defending the Kardashians in that other post and decrying them and their ilk here, the answer is simple. I was just joking.

In the other post, that is. Not here. I’m being deadly serious here.

Watch the clip from Fox News below:

Andrea Tantaros, barack obama, fox news, greg gutfeld, kardashians, Kate Gosselin, Snooki, The Five

Anonymous

I don’t blame The Five for having this opinion..

Fox News and Reality have nothing in common.
Cain

Andrea Tantaros turns her mind off a lot. She’s seems to keep forgetting to turn it back on.
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Lol!!
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Someone should have started the war on reality television over 10 years ago!! Then the world could have possibly been spared ‘Jersey Shore’!!
my2centshere

For once I total-leedog agree with you.
Anonymous

Something tells me she’s not there because of her mind.
Anonymous

Actually The Five uses the standard reality show template….

The dim-witted bully
The Black guy
The class clown
The fat slob/addict
and the two smokin’ babes you wanna see kiss in the hot tub
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Lol!! Nice!!
Anonymous

You need a ass kickin
Anonymous

lol…is that you notsofast/stonepark?
Just some Blow Hard…

Ever notice that Tantaros never sits in the middle, but always on the end? She also never wears trousers and always has 6-8 inch platform heels? Do you also notice that they always stay on that wide shot, especially when there is cross talk (which there is a lot of)?

Me too and having worked in TV I can assure you that this is not a accident.
Anonymous

notsofast/stonepark3/lala3
Anonymous

what an embarrassment to not only the state, but to the United States that these people have become wealthy for what?
Anonymous

Never seen the show, but those legs take up 30% of the shot above
Anonymous

So what’re you sayin’?
You watch the show and at the end of the hour your arm is sore?
PaulG85

Andrea, I need you. Kimberly Guilfoyle, I need you. The show gets great ratings. If the show was just about babes, it’d be a Superbowl event Mon.-Fri.

Not sayin’ anything. Just sayin’.
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Anonymous

I thought Obama was a Snookie fan.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

Your wrong Reality TV is here to stay you wouldn’t have been spared on Jersey Shore. Reality has been around for over 20 years Cops started reality TV it just didn’t really catch fire until 10 years ago. I like reality TV and it is here to stay weather you like or not.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

Reality TV is here to stay weather you like it or not. I think some reality TV is entertaining and fun to watch as Andrea Tantaros said also to relax at the end of the day as well. Really Reality TV has been around for over 20 years Cops was first & Real World on MTV in 90′s.
Porphyry

“Greg Gutfeld’s assertion that getting rid of reality TV will end teenage bullying better than school anti-bullying programs is just silly.”

Yeah, bullying probably is a lot older than any TV genre.