Barbara Walters to Kardashians: 'You don't have any talent'

The article on CNN - I took the thread title directly from that article headline
This was the rare times on here that I wanted to grab the <obvious> tags much like Fark does. Personally I do not give a damn what any of these girls do or what major events happen in their lives, much less all of the minor ones likes the tabloids like to report on (or invent/greatly embellish if need be).

 

Yep - I suspect you aren't going to get too many "oh, she's so talented" on here.

 

I thought their talent lay in getting peed on. But that's me.

 

what's shocking is that barbara walters got stuck on the kardashians obvious lack of any talent so thoroughly that she overlooked what they do.

they are brands. they are brands of themselves. they are themselves(tm). and if they did anything more than be themselves(tm) they would diminish their perfection. they would be this or that kardashian who does this or that thing. they would no longer be themselves(tm).

it's not easy to be a brand of yourself, really. you should try it. being yourself and yourself(tm) is a high-level zen thing. it is being in two places at once.

what kind of people can be in two places at once?

fully realized beings, that's who. the kardashians are fully realized beings and what we think of as vacantness is actually the kind of meditation that's only practiced by fully realized beings. but they are not content to merely be fully realized beings. no no, they want to bring the Way to us and the way to bring us the Way is to transform themselves from being fully realized beings to fully realized beings(tm).

to get from a to b, they needed a Vehicle. that Vehicle was provided them---and us---by that noted conceptual artist(tm) ryan seacrest, whose E entertainment television packaging system transformed the kardashians from themselves into themselves(tm) and provided us with the opportunity--a word i do not use lightly---to watch fully realized beings transform themselves into fully realized beings(tm) and to be in two places at once, that is to be themselves and themselves(tm), and nothing more than themselves(tm), so perfectly themselves(tm).

 

I don't even know who the Kardashians are.

Saw the Kardashian name pop up in the internet a couple times, but I'm not curious for gossip/tabloid crap.

 

About 5 years ago when I heard the name 'Kim Kardashian', Robert Kardashian came to mind. He was the sole member of the defence of O.J. Simpson that (after the acquittal) admitted that he regretted getting involved at all and further, compromising his principles when in the thick of the trial. He was filthy rich regardless (prior to and post-trial) and so that (uber-rich Hollywood) is from whence the Kadashians sprung. Kim was first up. She's had massive cosmetic surgery and questionable sex tape practices but that only seems to draw the fascination of the folks that enjoy E!-type tripe. I'm sort of appalled that her 15 minutes is seemingly lasting longer than Paris Hilton's.
roachboy is spot on. They are a brand unto themselves.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardassian

They should be talking about these Cardassians from Star Trek.

 

Now the Cardassians have talent. And they are about as real as the public image that has been created of the Kardashians.
These are the kind of "celebrities" that would last 5 minutes in a post apocalyptic/zombie world and be missed by no one. *adds to story notes...*

 

*sigh* *sniff*
beautiful, man
fucking beautiful

 

What's this about pee? I had no idea. I do tend to ignore reality show people though. I don't understand how anyone finds them interesting. Kim is like Paris Hilton, if Paris was actually attractive. Nothing there to keep interest.

 

It really is a work of art.
Thanks roachboy, I truly enjoyed that.

 

Now I'm picturing Buddhist monks making sex tapes of themselves getting urinated on by football players to achieve Enlightenment.

 

I obviously missed some piece of "celebrity" new that involved Kim by the sound of it. Sounds better to keep it that way.

 

The obvious analog of the Bajorans in the Carassians/Kardashians juxtaposition is all of us. We're all the oppressed ones.

And just to let the cat out of the bag for those not in the know - Kim Kardashian has a sex tape with Ray Jay (I think) where he pees on her. The thing about sex tapes is that in order to distribute one in the US, you have to have consent of all the parties shown on film. If you don't, you have to obscure their face (the Janine/Vince Neil sex tape is the example here). So that means when you hear about Kim Kardashian or her mother crying about how the sex tape ruin their lives or was an awful thing, know that they're lying outright and that they gave full permission and were paid for it.