BB8 Bullies v Bullied?

This tip from our myspace friend, Tammy. Her source: TVgrapevine

It appears possible that CBS and Big Brother 8 are going to fly in the face of wisdom by glorifying school bullies.

It has been reported to this humble reporter on at least 3 occasions from 3 different people, reporting from two different sources that Big Brother 8 is being cast and produced to pit past high school bullies against those they bullied while in school.

Now before we all go jumping off bridges, let's assume the possibilities.

The first possibility is, there is absolutely no truth to the rumors and it is just some sore head spreading rumors because he or she didn't make the cut to be on Big Brother 8.

The second possibility is, it is the truth or close enough to the truth that it is reportable. It is reportable because regardless of how foolish this reporter may look if it isn't the truth, the motive for reporting it is pure.

The motive for reporting something this repugnant should be obvious. All 50 states of the United States of America and all 10 provinces plus the territories of Canada have invoked strong anti bullying policies in their school systems. In some states and provinces laws have been past to severely punish bullies.

We need not look to far back in time to understand the results of bullying in our schools. The result was dead bodies, dead bodies of children, dead bodies young teen adults and dead bodies of teachers.

If CBS has chosen to all allow Big Brother 8 to go down this path, shame on CBS. I would go even further and say, how dare CBS and Big Brother in any way shape or form glorify bullying.

I would be looking for the excuse "We aren't glorifying bullying, it is simply a study in how the relationship between bully and bullied can change." Absolute poppycock is what I say, CBS and Big Brother are not in business to do studies, they are in the business of getting good ratings and selling product.

Just a word of advise to the V.P. in charge of nontraditional programming for CBS. When you want a clean barn, you don't sweep out half the barn and expect it to be clean, you sweep out the entire barn. It is obvious that the problem with Big Brother is a lack of creativity. You only regain that creativity after several years of bad ratings by bringing in new people with fresh ideas and a different perspective to casting.

Big Brother has degenerated to two poles, bad VS good, Kewl VS Nerd, the diversity of the show has disintergrated and along with it so has the ratings. To go the Bully VS Bullied route is just more of the same old same old and in most organizations that is a firing offense.

To close this piece off I am going to assume and hope that this entire idea of using past high school bullies on Big Brother 8 is nothing more than rumor and I am going to be real happy when I find out just how wrong the rumors were. On the other hand if this turns out to be the truth in any way, shape or form, I expect all you wonderful fans and responsible citizens to rebel against the glorification of bullying by putting these kind of people on Big Brother by writing CBS, writing their sponsors and switching to another channel.

Let all our BB friends know about this. I hope its not true....