On September 7, 1927, a farm boy from Beaver, Utah named Philo Farnsworth invented the first functional electrical image dissector, or what we now know as the television. Over the years, this invention has become more and more a part of our lives. In the United States, 98 percent of households have a television, making it a nearly ubiquitous technology.
Television has allowed people to witness some of the greatest moments of history. It allowed Franklin D. Roosevelt to rally our country together after the bombings of Pearl Harbor, it let people watch as a man was launched into space to walk on the moon, it gave people an opportunity to hear the words of Martin Luther King Jr . from the comfort of their own homes and it gave us inside access to Kim Kardashian’s fairytale wedding.
Now, I’ve taken some flak for grouping together these things with Kim’s wedding. People try to tell me she’s nothing more than a glorified slut, she is only famous because her dad was a rich celebrity lawyer and she had some kind of sex tape. Those people couldn’t be more wrong.
The response of the American people makes it obvious, Kim is a very important person and we have a responsibility to pay attention to her and to fawn over every detail of her life. For crying out loud, she has her own television show that, since 2007, has been the highest rated show on Sunday nights!
How can you tell me that she’s not important when 3.2 million Americans tuned in to watch her bombastic show of a wedding costing up to 15 million dollars? Clearly, people who think her show is a waste of the American public’s time, money and resources, and a stain on our society’s image in the eyes of the of global community, just don’t appreciate everything she’s done for us, like… you know, have that sex tape and stuff.
Poor Kim isn’t the only important person in our society who has suffered the spurious and spiteful criticisms of the American elitists and cynics.
A few years back, billionaire heiress Paris Hilton was in the same boat. She’s made a sex tape, has a rich dad and has several TV shows, all of which define an important person to the American masses. Yet, for some reason, there were people out there bent on defaming her character in every way they could. The popular TV show, South Park, devoted an entire episode to calling her a “stupid, spoiled whore,” an idea all of her critics agreed with and propagated at every opportunity.
She doesn’t deserve such horrendous defamations . She is such a good person. In 2007, it was discovered her father was going to donate 97 percent of his wealth, previously assumed to be her inheritance, to charity. She didn’t even get mad. She was happy to see $2.3 billion go to a charity organization managed by her family. None of it will be taxed, and she’ll be able to influence the charity’s principal as she sees fit to help people, not to help her support her “lavish” and “frivolous” lifestyle as some would say.
No doubt there are other victims of the cruel remarks from the ivory towers, but let me tell you something; the president of the United States of America is paid a salary of $400,000 a year, a radiologist makes $300,000 a year and a chemical engineer makes $100,000 a year.
Snooki makes $5 million a year. So I ask you, you smug, smart, cynical scumbags , who is more important? The guy who only makes $400,000 a year, or the girl who makes $5 million a year? The answer seems pretty clear to me. So stop trying to take down these wonderful people just to make yourselves feel better. They are the face of our country, and we should give in to it.
