Is Abby Sunderland just another reality TV scammer?

There is increasing evidence that the Sunderland family will take its place along side other recent scammers such as “balloon boy” and the Salafis (White House crashers). Andy Martin says reality TV producers are creating these strange people and deranged family ventures.

Andy Martin asks whether the entire Sunderland family is a reality TV scam

Martin says Abby Sunderland’s “rescue” may have been orchestrated by her father

The Sunderland appear to be the latest in a long line of reality TV scammers

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Andy Martin
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Andy Martin says the mainstream media are feeding the reality TV scammers by treating them as legitimate news events instead of commercial exploitationists

(NEW YORK)(June 13, 2010) The Sunderland family, led by “Octomom” Marianne and her loopy father, appears to be just another reality TV scam. Someone has suggested that Octomom Sunderland, who has four teenage children, is pregnant again. All the better to provide quality time for her commercial brood.

I was alerted to the commercialization of this 16 year-old by a reader, who furnished me with a link to Magnetic Entertainment, which is shopping reality TV shows about the Sunderlands:

http://www.magneticent.com/html/projects.htm

A little more digging let me to a sponsorship page, with a price list of sponsorships for the 16 year-old, also linked to Magnetic Entertainment:

http://abbysunderland.com/images/sponsors/abby_sponsorship.pdf

First we had the balloon boy scam floating into space. Then we had the Salafis crashing the White House. Now the Sunderlands look as creepy as any of these whackos. When and where does it end?

Why is there no critical analysis from the mainstream media. The “rescue” of Abby Sunderland is treated as a legitimate news event. It appears to have been a crass commercial exploitation. The Sunderlands even advertised that their daughter was sailing into the “fearsome rigors of the southern seas.” What kind of a parent would expose a child to that kind of danger, alone, for months? Only a deranged parent. Only a sicko.

After Abby’s initial masthead problems her father, who claims to be an experienced mariner, had to have known that she was in increasing danger. But he egged her on. It sounds like an increasingly staged and artificial “rescue.”

After being rescued, Abby’s snide remarks about her age and the dangers of the high seas have a Hollywood-like veneer to them.

And, by the way, why is Abby not in school? What kind of a scam did the Sunderlands pull to get their daughter out of school for a year, sailing alone? Is she "home schooling" herself? Hello, California officials?

The Sunderlands smell. But then the entire reality TV universe stinks as well.

Jay Leno and David Letterman, are you paying attention?
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
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Thank you President George W. Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says former President George W. Bush is the real hero of yesterday's hostage rescue. Martin says Obama's response to the Somali pirates endangers every American.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin: Thank you President George W. Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”

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Andy Martin thanks President George W. Bush for rescuing the U.S. ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates

Obama's "Somali" response sent a message of weakness to our enemies, says Martin

BHO's post-rescue "spin" is just typical Obama

Liberal media again distort the true significance of the rescue

(NEW YORK)(April 13, 2009) I don't often have good things to say about former President George W. Bush. But today I want to thank him for the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, held hostage by Somali criminals and rescued by the U. S. Navy.

The captain was rescued by George W. Bush's Navy, not Barack Obama's Navy.

I have never been much of a success as a politician because I insist on telling audiences the truth, even when it goes against popular opinion. The Bush Brothers and I are not friends. And political groups don’t want informed and independent opinion; they want red meat. Life is much more complex. My ultimate loyalty is to the truth, and not to any individual or party. I am a Republican by inclination, but not a Republican "right or wrong."

That is why today I am alone in all of America's media in singing the praises of President George W. Bush. He rescued Captain Phillips.

The "Navy" that was able to respond in the Indian Ocean was a navy created by the Bush administration. While Bush may not have maintained as large a navy as I would prefer, he kept our seafaring capabilities at a high level.

Barack Obama wants to devastate the navy, and reduce our fleet to a handful of tugboats and dinghies.

The "navy" that Barack Obama is trying to create with his proposed defense programs would not have been able to rescue Captain Phillips. Think about that for a minute. If Obama had been in office long enough to succeed with his plans for the navy, there would not have been a successful rescue of our hostage captain.

The liberal media, of course, are desperately trying to "spin" the captain's rescue as a "victory" for the "young commander in chief who had yet to prove himself to his generals or his public."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR2009041203002.html?hpid=topnews

Praise is pouring in for "Commander" Obama:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/cheat-sheet/white-house-cheat-sheet-14.html?hpid=topnews

Well, Obama "proved" himself all right. He proved he is an uncertain and unsteady hand on the tiller. Obama wants to gut our defense capability so he can "invest" in welfare checks for illegal immigrants. The navy that he wants to create would lack a global reaction capability.

Obama has said nothing about cleaning out the land-based Somali pirate nests, and he won't. They are Muslims. He will not become the scourge of the Somali terrorists. Under an "Obamas Navy," Captain Phillips would have been sitting in captivity for months.

Barack Obama proved he is the new Jimmy Carter.

Obama sent a strong message to both our friends and enemies: when there is a crisis or conflict, he will hide in the White House basement until it is safe to emerge and claim victory. His feckless behavior did not deter future attacks on Americans. He has encouraged them. With each passing day that Obama is in the White House our worldwide military capability is being degraded and decreased.

Congress, are you listening?

And so, today I praise the real hero of yesterday's victory: President George W. Bush, who kept America militarily strong and left behind a Navy with the capability to rescue Captain Phillips.

Thank you President Bush. Thanks George. During your term in office you took credit for a lot of things that you did not deserve credit for. But today, quietly, you can take credit for leaving behind a U. S. Navy that can respond around the world.

I salute you. And every man and woman in uniform should salute you.

Thank you President Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips.

This is really your day, not Barack Obama's.

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Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst on Asia and the Middle East. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

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