Comments on: Jon and Kate Plus 8 Plus Hate

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:51:48 +0000

Probably the best take I’ve read on the whole messy situation.

Good job, George.

By: Chase

Chase — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:28 +0000

It’s fascinating and telling that this topic has inspired more chatter than anything else I’ve seen on Staticblog. Realty TV= the roadside bloodbath accident for the new millennia

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:04:09 +0000

i agree with the person who said TLC used to show surgeries, and stuff you could really learn from. i mean i could get fertility drugs and have 6 or 7 babies at one time, but in this day and age, it is nothing special. Why not put the octo-mom on TLC, now there is a woman who needs some help. As far as Kate, she’s an idiot, you can’t stick a man with that many kids at once and not expect him to go running

By: clawson

clawson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:44:34 +0000

That’s some of the best writing I’ve read in a long long long time. Anywhere.

(So I hate to say that the subject is so pathetic, but maybe that’s just the way things happen.)

Please keep up the good work!

By: Erana

Erana — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:18:31 +0000

I’m so glad to hear that they are finally getting a divorce. The facades that they put on for the sake of show business makes me sick. Those poor kids are trapped in a selfish and loveless marriage that’s only out to get recognition and money. Kate is a stone cold bitch sometimes and runs that family like an army camp instead of being a loving mother. I never understood the appeal to the show… my parents NATURALLY conceived a multiple-birth and you don’t see her trying to throw her children into the spotlight. Who cares about Jon and Kate? Cheating to make a family for an attention-starved woman is shameful. People are infertile all the time and have fertilization treatments and the result is often multiple births. I’m hoping it’s all going to be over soon. Exploiting little children the way they do makes me sick.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:32:27 +0000

I think that marriage was doomed regardless! I’m sure Jon being able to watch himself being emasculated on TV (with his boys in his ear) sped it up. But no doubt, there is no way they could have lasted forever with things going that way- no matter who was at fault!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:18:37 +0000

Thank goodness for the MUTE button on our remote, when commercials for this show come on. But there is little left on TLC of any ‘learning’ value since it went to so many of these so-called reality shows about people having children by the litter, etc. And as if weren’t bad enough that they had their own shows, they spilled over into other shows, such as the “Say Yes to the Dress’ episode where Kate bought a dress to renew their vows in. Ironic and sad.

These networks need to return to REAL documentaries. We’ve had enough of this mindless stuff. Time to stop dumbing down the country.

By: K.L.

K.L. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:23:06 +0000

Watching “Man vs. Wild” on Discovery Channel helped a 9-yr old get rescued in the Utah woods.

Watching “Jon and Kate” on TLC helps you…uh….nevermind.

By: nerdblog

nerdblog — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:21:49 +0000

Nicely written, Mr. Lang.

By: Chase

Chase — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:18:06 +0000

well, as a longtime “Big Brother” addict, I can’t deny the appeal of watching people, in all their vile glory, under the microscope. What makes “Jon and Kate” so tragic, ultimately, is thhe innocents who are impacted along the way.

It really is something of a paradox, the balance between how reality TV is both a financial life preserver and soul killer for multiple-birth families. I mean, does anyone think the Octo Mom will even be able to support her family without the inevitable reality TV show? But these shows conversely celebrate and reward bad behavior.

Then again, thinking about it, life kinda rewards bad behavior.

So maybe I need to stop talking.