a sentiment that seems to be making the rounds

[G_j]

taken from FB,

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[etherealtruth]

1. I can't wrap my mind around this trend

[scarletwoman]

2. I have absolutely no idea who the 2 people in the center are.

Must be because I don't have TV.

[niyad]

3. was about to say the same. who are they, and why should I care?

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I am sad to say that I do know.

Justin Bieber and one of the Kardashians. Though which one I don't know.

[niyad]

7. whoever they are.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Proud to say

that I didn't recognize the Kardashian, although that photo - obviously intended as a 'glamour' shot - is more emblematic of a vacuous twit.

[Bradical79]

14. Oh God!

I thought the one next to the Kardashian was Miley Cyrus

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Have the two ever been seen together?

[calimary]

37. Kim Kardashian.

[BobTheSubgenius]

57. I'm not sure there is a "one of"...

...when it comes to the Kardashians. I'm pretty sure they are interchangeable.

[IDemo]

6. I own a tv but don't have cable or dish

I believe #3 is "Snookie" but have no idea what her claim to fame is besides being #4's inspiration ("Snowdrift Snookie&quot .

edit - or a Kardashian, also one of the Klondike Kardashian's inspirations.

[johnp3907]

10. Me too, neither.

And I'm good with that.

[No Vested Interest]

15. I had never heard of Robertson until a few days ago

when all this hullabaloo erupted.
I've heard some speculation on TV this morning that the ruckus may have been started to bring attention to the TV show.
Who knows?
Who cares?

[scarletwoman]

22. I was vaguely aware that there was some show called "Duck Dynasty", only because

those bearded faces seemed to be showing up all over the place over the past few months or so. Had no idea what the show was about, or what their names were until this recent brouhaha erupted.

I would have preferred to continue not knowing.

[dorkzilla]

35. I thought it must have been a Disney cartoon

I thought it must have been Daffy's family.

I think I will continue deluding myself. Living in my fantasy world is a nicer place than reality.

[AAO]

38. I think you mistook Donald Duck (Disney) with Daffy Duck (Warner Bros.).

[dorkzilla]

45. I sure did!

No insult to Daffy of course, who is by far Donald's intellectual superior...and so, it would seem, Phil Robertson's.

[AAO]

47. No argument on either point!

[roguevalley]

48. the guy that created duck dynasty starred in gay porn: The Fluffer

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/duck-dynasty-scott-gurney-phil-robertson-gay-porn

[roguevalley]

50. also google duck dynasty without beards and find out what frauds these 'country bumpkins'

actually are. Given that they look like an ad for sears sort of puts low their image

[No Vested Interest]

54. I'm not familiar with The Fluffer, either.

Ignorance is bliss sometimes.

[roguevalley]

55. yeah. it is trending on buzzfeed. I never heard of these yokels at all until now.

[RebelOne]

52. I agree. Never heard of him either

because I did not have any interest in watching the show. You are right. Who knows? And who cares?

[tavalon]

17. It's nice, huh?

I'm not without a screen (as I am posting on the internetz) but I watch what I want when I want, commercial free. And clearly, I don't watch whatever made the two in the middle famous. I wish I had never encountered the other two.

[scarletwoman]

25. Since I'm on dialup I can't do video, so I don't watch anything at home except DVDs.

I still have a TV, but since the conversion to digital I'm too far out in the boonies to get a signal. I refuse to pay for dish (which is all that's available out here), so my TV is just a monitor for watching movies.

I catch a little TV in the breakroom at work, and sometimes when I go hang out at my sister's house I'll catch up on some programs that she's recorded on her DVR.

For my home entertainment it's just radio, DU, and books.

[Mira]

34. Dang, same here,

and til last week I did not know the one on the left, either.
And I do have TV. Several of them.
But I do agree with the sentiment of the post.

[Tunkamerica]

60. justin beiber and kim kardashian... weird that you'd know duck dynasty dude who's name i don't know

and who only has a basic cable show and not know beiber and kardashian who are everywhere all the time

[scarletwoman]

61. As I said, I've seen pictures all over the place of those bearded Duck Dynasty guys.

Kind of hard to miss. I might have recognized Beiber if it had been a different picture of him - like, with his hair falling over his eyes. Any of the Kardashians, no. Plastic women don't catch my eye. They're just interchangeable barbie dolls and not the least bit memorable.

[frazzled]

5. Only:isn't by posting that all over the Internet ...

just making them MORE famous?

I wish we could just ignore these people. I do: I didn't even know what Duck Dynasty was until recently. And nobody paid any attention to Miley Cyrus until she stuck out her tongue (and made people talk about her: she's smarter than you think).

Why don't we just try promoting more interesting and sane people on the Internet, giving them all the tweets and FB posts and memes, rather than spending endless hours criticizing these nitwits?

[gtar100]

24. I agree about ignoring them but now that these ones are already famous,

I think it's good to expose them for what they really are and hopefully make it a little less likely for others to take them seriously. I suppose it's one thing to be famous, but probably a bit humiliating to have once been famous and remembered as "that idiot". Or worse, despised.

[politichew]

9. Stop making stupid people famous...

And stop creating opportunities for those superior beings, and everyone knows one, to remind us that they don't watch or own a television because they are just so above what us mere mortals do for fun.

[Chaco Dundee]

12. thank you

It puts those oh so superior people in the same category with kardashians and that beeber character.

[scarletwoman]

26. That makes no sense whatever.

[Squinch]

13. I don't believe any of those people indicated that they thought they were superior.

They simply stated that they don't watch TV.

Do you think it is necessary that they should hide that fact? If so, why?

[tavalon]

21. I used to think I was superior,

then I realized I spend as much time goofing on the internet as others do on TV. One or the other, not so different. Just fewer commercials and less knowing of the celebrity of the moment.

[AAO]

39. Today's Mom's call it "screen time" - it's all the same.

[Gore1FL]

40. One involves reading, though. n/t

[AAO]

42. I agree 100%.

But kids on the internet are usually doing nothing very constructive, from my observations. Plus the mothers are trying to get them out of the house to get some exercise.

[Scootaloo]

62. Reading vapid bullshit isn't much different from watching vapid bullshit

Going to HuffPo isn't any smarter than watching TMZ.

[Gore1FL]

64. I would argue reading anything is better than watching. n/t

[tavalon]

66. Slightly more interactive but not always.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. That's pure projection on your part.

People are just sharing what their experience has been without commercial TV. The interpretation comes completely from your own head.

[daleanime]

28. +1

[scarletwoman]

30. You don't even know why I don't have TV.

I have no TV because when they converted the signal for broadcast TV from analog to digital where I live too is far away from the nearest transmitter to get a signal anymore. When I was still able to get broadcast TV by analog signal, I watched it. Analog signals had about a 70 mile range, digital signals have about a 55 mile range, and I live just under 70 miles out.

That doesn't make me feel "superior", it just makes me feel rural.

I also have never in my life subscribed to cable or dish TV (cable isn't available where I live now anyway) because I have never wanted to pay money for TV.

That also doesn't make me feel "superior", it just makes me feel frugal.

[Curmudgeoness]

41. You may still be too far away from a signal,

but I have a nice indoor antenna that works really well. I get no signal without it, so it definitely helps.

And I gotta love that frugal!

[scarletwoman]

44. Thanks for the suggestion - although I do already have a huge rooftop antenna,

which I needed to pull in the old analog signal. Allegedly it was supposed to also work for pulling in digital, as long as it had a UHF loop at the top (which it does) - but, nada.

I've gone so long without TV now that I can't say I much care any more. I honestly don't miss it.

And, yeah, frugal - it's a lifelong habit I picked up from my depression era parents and I'm glad for it.

[brewens]

11. I was able to make a somewhat educated guess on the middle two though I don't really know

them on sight. I could just guess who it most likely must be and they are two of my three guesses.

I've never watched a any of that so-called "reality tv". That with the exception of the first "Survivor" at a friends house and an early episode of "Joe Millionaire" with a woman I was dating briefly. The "Joe" story is funny. One show and I was able to guess the whole plot. It was so obvious what they were going to pull.

I was a dairy delivery guy at the time "Joe" was on and the school cooks at my old jr high were heavily into it and always talking about it. I went in there one day and told them what was going to happen. He reveals he's just a construction dude, the girl he picked shows what she's really all about and dumps him, then they fork over the million anyway to burn her! I knew it and that's exactly what they did.

Like most shows and people that are so easily predicted, there is a high level of stupidity involved to be entertained by or associate with them. I really don't do well with that.

I do know some highly intelligent successful people that just loved Sarah Palin though. It really does amaze me that they could ever have been impressed with her, at least after just a little time went by. I suspect a large number of them now know but just won't admit to being duped by her. Others, though pretty sharp most of the time, just have some serious holes in their intelligence. Then you have those that knew all along what she was worth but are flat out lying to us. They'll claim to love her, thinking it's working on part of the base so what the hell? We get that a lot.

[HereSince1628]

18. WHAT THE FRICK? That graphic leaves out FRICK'N TODD HOFFMAN!!

various wild hog shooters, and barehanded varmit chasers...

That's a frik'n shame.

[zeemike]

19. Well the right wing has discovered a nifty little trick.

Pull the emotional strings of certain groups of people and they will make you famous.

And I can predict that Duck Dynasty will see a surge in viewership in the coming programs, because every right winger will flock to it to spite the left....and now this man is a cultural hero to them, just like George Z is.
But it is a waste of time to point this out to people because it is emotional and they can't help but fall for it...so you will see more of it not less.

[99Forever]

20. Agree with the sentiment, but...

... since I've never encouraged that, I'm clueless as to what I can do to end it.

[SCVDem]

27. To hell with those people

and take TMZ and their ilk with you.

Also take local news along. It's not news.

[svpadgham]

29. Not to be an ass...

but, the Duck Dynasty guy is not the one in trouble for the GQ article. The man pictured is Uncle Si not Phil Robertson. I don't watch a lot of television, but I am aware of pop culture figures because I know and speak to people on a regular basis, and I use the internets.

[boomersense]

31. Good one. I saw that too and I don't

watch any television going on 31 years now. Of all these, Si has the least net worth and is the least recognizable. I just researched all of them. Interesting facts about these...

[Rozlee]

32. The trouble today is that looks, connections and attention grabbing behavior will get you stardom,

not talent. In order to be a successful singer, you have to be good-looking and sexy as well. Would a plump Aretha Franklin or grungy Janis Joplin have made it in today's world that demands sexpots like Beyoncé and Britney Spears that are talented and use blatant sex appeal? I don't think Michael Douglas is anywhere as handsome and talented as his dad, Kirk Douglas either. I wonder how many unique, world class voices are languishing away because their owners don't have the looks and bodies that would pack auditoriums. Susan Doyle was one of the lucky few that made it. I'm sorry, but if Justin Beiber is what passes for great music, we've devolved horrifically in the arts. But, hey, that's just my opinion. Someone that's got a better sense of fine arts and great music might disagree with me. My music tastes include a love of disco, so I'd be laughed out of the ballpark by many.

[boomersense]

33. You are exactly right, and it will only

get worse before it all ends. Everything is about money.

[AAO]

43. I agree with everything you said except

when Aretha became as star she was pretty hot:

[Rozlee]

51. I guess I was thinking more of the matronly way she looked in her Jimmy Lee video.

But, you're right. I've never seen her looking like that.

[AAO]

36. It sickens me.

[Rex]

46. Stop being stupid.

Shorten that up there.

[loli phabay]

49. what did uncle si do, or is it mistaken identity.

[K.O. Stradivarius]

53. "Stupid" and laughing all the way to the bank

Controversial perhaps, but not nearly as dumb or "stupid" has some would have us believe.

I can't say that's exactly the case with one, any or all four, but certainly there are celebrities/quasi-celebrities that know how to play the media, audience and internet for all it's worth. If not them themselves, their agents... it's what keeps them in the news, and the money rolling in.

Some other examples...

Charlie Sheen

Lady GaGa

Miley Cyrus

Ted Nugent

Westboro Baptist Church

PETA

Yeah, some of these people or organizations might be genuine airheads, but until they get prison time, die, or people stop discussing them and their antics, their bank accounts aren't going to be hurting.

[nikto]

56. Don't leave out...

Zimmy...
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[Spitfire of ATJ]

58. The Right LOVES their myths....

"Joe The Plumber" wasn't named "Joe" and wasn't a plumber.

Now the "Duck Dynasty Guy" who's Romney in drag.

[KansDem]

59. It's "free enterprise"

Select a market;
Create a product for that market;
Advertise in that market;
Sell that product in that market.

It's capitalism...

[BrainDrain]

63. Stupid is..as Stupid does....

The ONLY reason these cretins have any fame at all is because other just as stupid people believe the shovels full of shit that pour out of their TV's everyday as important and worthy of their attention and reverence.

Idiots.

[jmowreader]

65. The third one is not stupid at all

She's figured out how to parlay her looks into a major brand. She makes millions by managing and cultivating her public persona in a profitable manner. It takes more than a tube of bottom-lash mascara to pull this off; it takes a keen ability to read the public. I couldn't do what she does and neither could you.