sadmad: Look, let me review the ABC's of this one more time.

MM: Please do.

sadmad: I want to go back again to that interview Linda gave to that
guy from the Prague Post a year after she appeared on JM2. He asks
her "What did you expect to happen during the 30 days of the show?"
And she says "I was expecting adventure. It was really exciting for
me to go and film the show. I thought it was a good combination of my
experience of modeling and traveling-".

OS: So? The idea pitched to the girls by the FOX/RSL casting people
(a group of American guys interacting with a group of European girls)
would have probably sounded wildly exciting and interesting.

MM: And Linda was perfect for they wanted.

sadmad: Sure she was. Like any other young, single, English-speaking
girl at the time, the opportunity to appear on a show like that would
have been a grand adventure. Absolutely. No question whatsoever.

MM: Especially for someone like her who was, as she said, looking for
a possible career in television or to further her modeling career.

sadmad: True. No argument at all.

OS: So?

sadmad: Allow me to read to you the remaining part to that quote or
reply from Linda, after he asks her what she was expecting or looking
for when she signed on to do the show - "and I was hoping I would
meet the right guy."

OS: Oops!

sadmad: No you weren't Linda. 'Oops!' is right. I don't have a
problem with you looking at appearing on the show as an adventure, a
lark for you and your buddy Karolina to participate in together. But
you were not looking for the 'right guy'. Because you already had a
boyfriend back in Prague.

MM: Dang, you're right.

sadmad: That story has been corroborated by two other girls who
appeared on the show. Even so, the problem I have is not that she
went on a reality TV dating show when she already had a boyfriend. Or
that she lied about that to the interviewer there. Or that, after she
got on the show, she found she missed the guy and wanted to leave the
goings-on to get back to him. Or that the idea of living or staying
on a ranch in Texas was anathema to her-

OS: - As it probably would have been for any of those JM2 girls.

MM: Be honest, sadmad - don't you sometimes have a reservation or two
about the idea of an ultra cool, hip girl like Cat living on a Texas
ranch, as well?

sadmad: Yeah, I've thought about that some, to be sure. But you're
bringing up hypotheticals. I'm talking about what we know. And,
again, we're straying from the point.

OS: Which is?

sadmad: Which is that Karolina addressed fans of the show after it
had aired offering 'insider' information of what had gone on. And
instead of saying 'I know all, or most, of what transpired during the
making of the show, and a lot of what you saw is not what really
happened. I know all the principals (Cat, David, Linda and all the
rest.) And, sadly, everyone was involved, to some degree, with those
deceptions and manipulations. Everyone's image was altered in some
manner by the editing'-

MM; Leaving a little room for some gray on the canvass, you mean?

sadmad: Right. But instead of that, she attempted to present a
whitewash, pure and simple. 'I'm here to tell you that the image you
all have of Cat as a sweet, wonderful girl is laughable', she told us
empathatically. 'But my pal Linda is a sweet and amazing lady and I
won't listen to any of you question HER character, or HER motives!
(Even though I just watched her look right into the camera at the end
and talk about how the prospect of city life now paled in contrast to
being on David's ranch and previously tell him he had made her dream
come through by asking her back - when I knew the truth resided
elsewhere.'

OS: And if she DID know about the 'deal', well -

MM: Well, then, you don't even need to finish, do you?

OS: So the point is that, bearing everything in mind, you might want
to garnish Linda and Karolina's version of events with one or two
granules of NaCl?

MM: And apply that word 'context' again to all of Karolina's cataract
of poison-pen allegations made toward Cat into the bargain?

sadmad: That's it in a nutshell.

MM: I feel like putting my hand through a wall now, too.


(Part X-b to follow.)