Paparazzi Punching Bag

How many times have you watched one of the tabloid shows, waiting for a celebrity, or someone who thinks they're a celebrity, to blow their lid and attack the poor, helpless, I'm-just-doing-my-job member of the paparazzi?!

There's no other reason to watch.

It's the Jerry Springer syndrome.

Yes, the "I'll get in your face until you snap" mentality that feeds the insatiable lust for people who want to see a meltdown on camera.

How pathetic.

We either get the spoon fed promotional press conferences concerning a star's upcoming project or dark video on a sidewalk outside a Hollywood eatery where someone spotted a celeb having drinks with an unidentified person.

OOOOOHHHHHH!!!!

Hats off to the surfers who confronted the papa-RAT-zo's.

The celebrity hounds usually rely on the star's packing the punch so they can get paid, but it doesn't appear this confrontation will make them any money.

For those of you who didn't hear or see the incident, Matthew McConaughey is doing some surfing in Malibu, when some "locals" didn't appreciate the gathering of some photographers invading their beach to snap a few photo's and grab a little video.

Well, they got their video.

Pictures of surfers going after the photog's, even throwing one camera into the ocean.

Threats, taunts, etc, etc, etc...

While ultimately I believe the celeb's should hold themselves to a higher standard to ignore the flash-popping papo's, I find it humorous when the paparazzi claim to be the VICTIM.

You get exactly what you're hoping for, then you complain?!

You giggle every time a star "stumbles" while trying to avoid the barrage of flashbulbs, you cackle when you surround a car so the driver can't leave the area and you belly laugh as the vein in a star's head begins to pulsate with anger.

I think back to classic Jim Everett versus Jim Rome interview in 1994, when the NFL QB plants the childlike Rome on his butt for his ridiculous name calling theatrics.

I laughed like crazy in delight of Everett's attack.

But when considering the highly volatile stars, I don't blame their actions when "relating" to the paparazzi.

Everyone has a rage trigger, and papo's are trained to keep pushing until they find it.

It's what you want after all.

The tabloids would argue their point by "pointing" to sales figures.

If people didn't buy it or watch it, they wouldn't print it or show it.

Maybe, but that doesn't make it right.

There are very, very, very few instances that require that in your face style of reporting and celebrities rarely fall into that category.

So, it's refreshing that someone outside the lines of the celebrities and punk-arazzi jumped into the fray.

It's fun to watching the hounds get hunted for once.