■ 13 March 2010 | 8:28 AM
Watching the Marvelously Deranged Minds
Reading the blog, Golf, Politics and Beyond this morning reminded me of one of my lesser television habits, a look into lesser America. The show, Cops, is a window into depravity and low-brow thinking. It is also a lesson about the affects of alcohol and drugs on one's mind. How the officers on Cops maintain their serious faces in the midst of such rediculous behavior and outlandish excuses is amazing to me. Let me tell you, although this will never happen, I fervently hope, if there is a police car behind me wanting me to pull over, pull over I will. Multiply that by two, three, or four, or more, police cars, you have definitely got my attantion and my absolute sillingness to stop and to obey the officers' every command. The retards on cops never seem to understand they are out-numbered and out smarted by the police.
I often wonder if the people being arrested on Cops are the real people or if the shows are just re-enactments. If it is real, do the subjects have to sign releases to be shown on television? If so, why do they? Nothing like letting the entire world see how mentally inept you are.
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Depressing
I have watched, but I’m always left feeling a bit of malaise, and a bit dirty. Do you think the appeal is to a baser instinct, one that’s basically summed up as, “we feel better about ourselves through observing others less fortunate?” If that’s the case, regardless of how harmless watching the show really is (I mean, the stuff already happened, right?), you really have to ask what that says about your own character. How lame are we to enjoy others' misery for no other reason than it makes us feel a little bit better about ourselves. I don’t think such a pleasure qualifies as a deadly sin, but are there sins that can make you really sick?
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I am not sure if I ever saw the "cops" on the show arrest anyone from middle class america.
It seems like they go after the easier targets. When I see cops do a show about wall street then maybe I'll watch it again.
Those Wall St. types . . .
. . . can be pretty entertaining when they're swinging in the wind trying to dodge questions. But, for pure entertainment, give me the doofus who thinks the 4 police cars directly behind them with sirens screaming, AREN'T for them, and I'm there. If they can't see or hear those cars, they really shouldn't be behind a wheel, ever. They are entertaining in a definite, 'What ARE you thinking?' way.
True but . . . .
The police do go after those you mentioned, but for the show's entertainment value, the cases they highlight are most entertaining, and entertainment is why I watch the show.