Extreme Home Fakeover

The yahoo news article.

I feel bad these previously poor people got a mansion built for them back in 2005, then took a loan out against the place for $450,000 dollars, then proceeded to default on the loan. Oh wait, let me show you my "shocked" face.

My question is this. If you've got a nice new big house, what would cost 450 grand that you would need to take a loan out for? Another house?

This past winter, Ty Pennington and the Extreme Home Fakeover crew invaded Fairmont, West Virginia, and the circus began. I understand that the show is supposed to pull on your heartstrings and make you say "Awwwww, Isn't that just wonderful of them." but the whole spectacle rubbed me raw. The producers of the show must not do very extensive background checks is all I can say. I won't go into details as my knowledge of the facts concerning the family is hazy at best. Lets just say that they weren't known to always fly the straight and narrow path. Hell with it though, they go to church and are already a better class of people than me (yes, that's sarcasm). At least the kids got some cool new stuff. They can't help it if their parents can screw up a soup sandwich.

When I watched the airing of the episode, I thought I was going to vomit all over me heathen self. Makes me wonder if there were similar occurrences and oversights at one of the other shows? Rhetorical question.

Weird. The whole extreme home make over show is a farce. But it's all about "good TV. Can you pick out the oxymoron in the last sentence?

-Twiz