Balloon Boy was a hoax, but his parents’ cluelessness and fame addiction is very real.

For me, watching the parents in the interviews (with the sound off) was  looking into a void of nothingness.  Empty, grasping, stupid, shallow people who don’t mind their child vomiting on television (twice) if it furthers their goal of achieving any kind of fame, even the desultory kind.  I can’t even be sad anymore that the parents are such simpletons who breeded;  just happy that it’s not me taking that sleazy ride on the fame express.

Balloon boy hoax driven by quest for fame and fortune [The Globe and Mail]

P.S. The US media continues to prove why it should die in its current state.