Editorial: I'm as Mad as Mel, and I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore!

From Ike Turner, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Gary Busey, Nick Nolte, Alec Baldwin, Michael Richards, now Mel Gibson. Why are celebrities continuously acting out? Why are they behaving so badly? In this real time society I'm sure they know that anything and everything they do or say is fair game for the internet. From YouTube to social networking websites, bad behavior can instantly be uploaded, downloaded and picked up by every radio station and television network in the world in a matter of seconds. Talk show host drool at the chance to display their bad behavior, tabloids hire paparazzi to photograph then write about it and celeb ex-wife's and girlfriend's record private phone conversations as personal insurance; eagerly ready, willing and able to offer it up to the highest bidder as a Special Edition to the evening news.

Have we as an entertainment seeking audience sunk to such levels that we enjoy watching another human beings televised at their lowest moments? Now don't get me wrong I love watching a famous super model trip and fall over and over again on the runway or listening to some politician get is caught swearing on an open microphone. Yes, I admit I am an America's Funniest Video true blue fan. But to watch a drunken Britney jump in her car with her child in the back seat is not my idea of entertainment and to be honest makes me physically ill.

Since I've never been rich and/or famous - well, maybe in my own mind - I can not imagine having a camera crew following me around 24-7. To understand the type of invasion of privacy on a daily basis is a foreigner concept. However, as my dear mother used to tell me, "If you don't have anything nice to say . . . don't say anything at all!" Maybe Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin should have listened to my dear mother's words of wisdom. On the other hand, when you intentionally add alcohol and drugs to the mix it's an über cocktail for disaster. They usually end up hurting themself and more often hurting the ones they supposedly love the most.

Some celebrities are completely self destructive. Robert Downey, Junior for instance has been in and out of rehab more times than most of us brushes our teeth. Or Keith Richards who has ingested so many drugs in his lifetime other drug addicted celebs are waiting for his long overdue demise just to smoke or snort is ashes. A gruesome image, but I digress.

Others like Ozzy Osborne, has been clean for almost 20 years, Samuel L. Jackson completed rehab in 1991, and went on to be a major movie star, and Elton John who was in and out of rehab several times, and finally came clean and stopped using.

There are also those celebrities whose bad behavior sadly ended their careers and eventually their lives. John Belushi could not commit to clean living, and ultimately died of a cocaine overdose. Michael Jackson had fallen into a downward spiral of sorts since then, including allegations of child molestation and has almost entirely fallen into obscurity. And Chris Farley who had sought treatment for obesity and drug abuse on seventeen separate occasions. The list goes on and on.

So I say let's all stand up, right now, stop reading this article, go over to your television sets, turn on your local network entertainment rag which in most cases is the Fox Network and scream with fist in the air, "I'm as Mad As Mel, and I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!"

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