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February 06, 2007

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I've been getting a lot of mail since we started our weekly online interactive chatshow "Watch What Happens".. I'm not only interested in everyone's opinions, I'm grateful that it is not possible to send anthrax via email!

RODRIGO from SAN FRANCISCO said:

"I really loathe how you manipulated this season, it was the worst display of "reality" TV. You seem very self satisfied but anyone with the least bit of IQ saw through it, I know you have to be a ratings-whore but you even sank below that level and that is truly pathetic, The only good news on this is karma always catches up with you. Cheers, Rodrigo"

RODRIGO, Sorry you weren't happy with this season of Top Chef. You are not alone. Why would we manipulate the show to piss our viewers off? If we were manipulating the show we would've kept the fan favorite IN, right?

CAL GIRL wrote:

You are insufferable to watch. painful to watch! In love with yourself! I can't stand you and no one else can! You mock people who call in and you're a moral relativist about what happened to Marcel on Bravo's watch! I hope he sues your a** off, you deserve it! Narcissitic empty-headed Generation whatever! If you're the future, we'd better give up. Yuck

Well, CAL GIRL, I don't know what to say exactly. I DO like myself, it's true. Maybe you can learn to love to hate me in a Star Jones kind of way. Like you HAVE to watch because you find me so insufferable. Otherwise just file me away as another moral relativist. On the flip side, CAL GIRL, look at the very next email I got right after yours:

"Loved it! You look great and have such a warm charismatic personality-look out Oprah! Jeana Keough"

That's right, it's JEANA from the REAL HOUSEWIVES. That lady is a smart cookie and if you watch the show she's not throwing around faint praise... So maybe you want to just give me one more chance..

KAREN from GEORGIA wrote me after I did a Q and A with Top Chef's Sam. We played a little Top Chef Word Association and apparently that game revealed to Karen that I am a racist:

"Just the fact that your word association left out the two Black contestants shows your true colors..Second season sucks and I won't be around for the 3rd one..Obviously a Black person will never win Top Chef and will be held to a different standard than any other so-called Top Chef!!"

This, to me, was a very serious accusation. I wrote her back and said that her matrix for assumptions might be flawed and that perhaps she should read over my past blogs, which I've written every weekday for a year, and then decide based on that whether I am a racist instead of accusing me of something incredibly offensive based on a 6 person word-association game in one blog.

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