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ON THE NIGHT of July 6, Miss Grubman was in the Hamptons,
partying, this being basically her job. Late that night, she got
into arguments with employees of the Conscience Point Inn as to
where she could park her daddy’s Mercedes SUV. According to
press reports, club bouncer Scott Conlon asked her to move the
car from a fire lane. Miss Grubman allegedly riposted: ”
(Expletive) you, white trash.” She then allegedly drove the
SUV, fast, about 35 feet in reverse, striking and injuring 16
people, including Conlon. She fled the scene. Tragically, some
of those injured were not, in fact, white trash, but as New York
magazine noted, “A-listers.”
US AND THEM
Miss Grubman has been most cruelly treated in the court
of public opinion and also may not fare well in a court of law,
where she faces charges of first-degree assault, reckless
endangerment and leaving the scene of the accident. Meanwhile,
she gazes out from the July 30 cover of New York magazine,
soulfully, sadly, wearing a simple, tasteful black sleeveless
something or other.
Pity Miss Grubman. She is a victim of our culture if ever
there was one. How was she to know that it was impermissible to
run over white trash? Miss Grubman knows what we all know. There
is us— us in the VIP rooms, us in the VIP schools, us in the
VIP jobs. And there is not-us, the white trash, and there are
very different rules for what each can do to each.
What, Miss Grubman might say, about Jeff Zucker? Mr.
Zucker is the very role model of us. He is the president of NBC
Entertainment. As such, he is responsible for “Fear Factor,”
NBC’s “reality show” in which people who are desperate enough
for money are induced to risk bodily harm and endure national
humiliation.
GET A LIFE
‘We’re having fun, we’re having a great summer. ...Get a
life.’ — JEFF ZUCKER
NBC Entertainment Contestants on “Fear Factor” have
allowed hundreds of rats to swarm over their bodies and have
been chased, in protective clothing, by attack dogs.
Mr. Zucker mocks those who find something wrong in this.
“We’re having fun, we’re having a great summer,” he told
reporters this week. “Get a life.”
It would be wrong to say that Mr. Zucker is a vile,
immoral, contemptible, evil careerist who would bury his own
children in rats for an overnight 30 share. He would never do
that. Not to his own children. His own children are not white
trash. The people who agree to endanger and humiliate themselves
on “Fear Factor” are, on the other hand, definitionally below
Mr. Zucker’s concern as human beings: by agreeing to
participate in Mr. Zucker’s freak show, they place themselves
clearly in the category of not-us. Their choice. Get the rats,
boys.
Has anyone fired Mr. Zucker? Has General Electric, NBC’s
parent company, yanked his vicious little perversion off the
air? Have the powerful stars of NBC News, Tom Brokaw and Katie
Couric and the rest, stepped up to denounce “Fear Factor?”
Nah. What lesson is Miss Grubman to derive from this?
HARVARD HYPOCRITES
‘Are we getting cheap labor? ...Of course. But you can’t
employ someone in North America to do this kind of job at this
cost.’ — MATTHEW MCINNIS
Editor, Harvard Crimson And what is Miss Grubman to
think when she considers the example set by C. Matthew MacInnis,
another us role model? He is the editor of The Harvard Crimson,
the nation’s oldest continually published college newspaper.
Mr. MacInnis is overseeing a project to establish an Internet
archive of the Crimson dating back to its inception in 1873. To
do this, The Boston Globe reports this week, Mr. MacInnis has
signed a $45,000 contract to have the newspaper’s early years
typeset. The contract is with Digital Divide Data, which has
opened an office in Phnom Penh, where it employs poor and
disabled Cambodians. The typists who input the Crimson will be
paid 40 cents an hour. As the Globe report noted, the Crimson
this year championed the successful student movement to force
Harvard to pay a “living wage” of $10.25-an-hour to its low-
end employees.
“Are we getting cheap labor?” said Mr. MacInnis. “Of
course. But you can’t employ someone in North America to do
this kind of job at this cost.” Well and boldly put, Mr.
MacInnis! White trash labor costs a fortune these days — $10.25-
an-hour in some places.
Bury them in rats. Off-shore their jobs to lame
Cambodians. Run an SUV into them. Miss Grubman must wonder,
what’s the dif? What’s the big deal? It’s so not fair.
partying, this being basically her job. Late that night, she got
into arguments with employees of the Conscience Point Inn as to
where she could park her daddy’s Mercedes SUV. According to
press reports, club bouncer Scott Conlon asked her to move the
car from a fire lane. Miss Grubman allegedly riposted: ”
(Expletive) you, white trash.” She then allegedly drove the
SUV, fast, about 35 feet in reverse, striking and injuring 16
people, including Conlon. She fled the scene. Tragically, some
of those injured were not, in fact, white trash, but as New York
magazine noted, “A-listers.”
US AND THEM
Miss Grubman has been most cruelly treated in the court
of public opinion and also may not fare well in a court of law,
where she faces charges of first-degree assault, reckless
endangerment and leaving the scene of the accident. Meanwhile,
she gazes out from the July 30 cover of New York magazine,
soulfully, sadly, wearing a simple, tasteful black sleeveless
something or other.
Pity Miss Grubman. She is a victim of our culture if ever
there was one. How was she to know that it was impermissible to
run over white trash? Miss Grubman knows what we all know. There
is us— us in the VIP rooms, us in the VIP schools, us in the
VIP jobs. And there is not-us, the white trash, and there are
very different rules for what each can do to each.
What, Miss Grubman might say, about Jeff Zucker? Mr.
Zucker is the very role model of us. He is the president of NBC
Entertainment. As such, he is responsible for “Fear Factor,”
NBC’s “reality show” in which people who are desperate enough
for money are induced to risk bodily harm and endure national
humiliation.
GET A LIFE
‘We’re having fun, we’re having a great summer. ...Get a
life.’ — JEFF ZUCKER
NBC Entertainment Contestants on “Fear Factor” have
allowed hundreds of rats to swarm over their bodies and have
been chased, in protective clothing, by attack dogs.
Mr. Zucker mocks those who find something wrong in this.
“We’re having fun, we’re having a great summer,” he told
reporters this week. “Get a life.”
It would be wrong to say that Mr. Zucker is a vile,
immoral, contemptible, evil careerist who would bury his own
children in rats for an overnight 30 share. He would never do
that. Not to his own children. His own children are not white
trash. The people who agree to endanger and humiliate themselves
on “Fear Factor” are, on the other hand, definitionally below
Mr. Zucker’s concern as human beings: by agreeing to
participate in Mr. Zucker’s freak show, they place themselves
clearly in the category of not-us. Their choice. Get the rats,
boys.
Has anyone fired Mr. Zucker? Has General Electric, NBC’s
parent company, yanked his vicious little perversion off the
air? Have the powerful stars of NBC News, Tom Brokaw and Katie
Couric and the rest, stepped up to denounce “Fear Factor?”
Nah. What lesson is Miss Grubman to derive from this?
HARVARD HYPOCRITES
‘Are we getting cheap labor? ...Of course. But you can’t
employ someone in North America to do this kind of job at this
cost.’ — MATTHEW MCINNIS
Editor, Harvard Crimson And what is Miss Grubman to
think when she considers the example set by C. Matthew MacInnis,
another us role model? He is the editor of The Harvard Crimson,
the nation’s oldest continually published college newspaper.
Mr. MacInnis is overseeing a project to establish an Internet
archive of the Crimson dating back to its inception in 1873. To
do this, The Boston Globe reports this week, Mr. MacInnis has
signed a $45,000 contract to have the newspaper’s early years
typeset. The contract is with Digital Divide Data, which has
opened an office in Phnom Penh, where it employs poor and
disabled Cambodians. The typists who input the Crimson will be
paid 40 cents an hour. As the Globe report noted, the Crimson
this year championed the successful student movement to force
Harvard to pay a “living wage” of $10.25-an-hour to its low-
end employees.
“Are we getting cheap labor?” said Mr. MacInnis. “Of
course. But you can’t employ someone in North America to do
this kind of job at this cost.” Well and boldly put, Mr.
MacInnis! White trash labor costs a fortune these days — $10.25-
an-hour in some places.
Bury them in rats. Off-shore their jobs to lame
Cambodians. Run an SUV into them. Miss Grubman must wonder,
what’s the dif? What’s the big deal? It’s so not fair.
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