The Biggest Idiot in the Country

The fallout continues over "intellectual" millionaire Stephen Fowler's outrageous treatment of midwesterner Gayla Long in the Wife Swap program of a couple of weeks ago. I decided to upload the YouTube of it and saved it to the iPod for future reference. It ranks among the all-time worst episodes in the history of television. And the worst part of the show was the way he shit all over Long in front of his children. It makes me wonder how he treats his own wife.

Now Fowler, who has "suffered" a ton of backlash over his performance, is threatening to take legal action against those who have set up blog sites like StephenFowlerSucks.com for publishing his address, and what few friends he has left have come to his defense claiming Wife Swap's producers carefully edited the show to make him look bad.

Unfortunately for him, he hasn't got a leg to stand on. He chose to appear on the show and suddenly became a public figure, and now he has to pay the price for his assholery.

That's basically what this Fox segment with a couple of attorneys concluded:



He and his wife may end up losing their business ventures and even have to move from their million-dollar Noe Valley home, but the worst is the ridicule those children will have to endure because their dad is such a total jerk.

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Here is yet another reason why people should avoid being on "reality television" programs.

When your own wife condemns your behavior, you might as well hang it up.

Snip:

In this case, Fowler was cast as the elitist, self-satisfied San Francisco liberal, and his visitor, Long, was the slow-minded Midwesterner. During the episode, Gayla mispronounces the word "agenda," a flub for which Fowler is quick to humiliate her.

He later calls her, "Undereducated, over-opinionated and overweight."

At least she wasn't stupid.

This is the anti-Fowler blog mentioned in the piece.

The entire show can be seen at this YouTube link and sidebar. Apparently it's okay to post the show, but the person who posted it couldn't use the actual series name, just the initials.

In watching the YouTube clips, while it is obvious the show is scripted as all get-go, ol' Stephen came across horrid regardless.