<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, kid nation under siege]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, kid nation under siege]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/kidnationundersiege http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/kidnationundersiege <![CDATA[Controversial CBS Reality Experiment Kid Tested, Mother Approved]]>
If you count yourself among the slim minority of party poopers hurling hysterical and irresponsible accusations of child abuse at the producers of one of the most important social experiments of our time—i.e. the reality TV dystopia known as Kid Nation—then we refer you to the impassioned testimony of a participant's mother on yesterday's Access Hollywood. Having apparently helped herself to some of the bleach-tinged Kool-Aid made readily available in a large barrel in Nation's town square, the CBS-sanctioned mouthpiece compellingly argues how not even the occasional burning or poisoning could detract from the good times being had at this adult-free "summer camp environment," at the end of which anyone over the age of 15 is disposed of in a fun, fiery ritual known as Carousel.

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While we're sure the 22-page waiver (just posted on the Smoking Gun) the parents and guardians of Kid Nation participants had to sign prior to shipping off their children to 40 fun-filled days in a New Mexico ghost town is nothing more than a boilerplate document that could be used to indemnify the proprietors of any summer camp that intended to film its own amateur production of Lord of the Flies against nuisance lawsuits, scanning the litany of potential disasters lawyers could envision befalling the Nation stars still makes for a pretty good time.

In addition to the staggering variety of mishaps (listed above) that could occur on fun day trips to "inherently dangerous travel areas," the embattled production also wisely choose to protect itself against the unpredictable aftermath (STDs, pregnancy, HIV, etc) of verboten intimate relationships that might develop between the show's 8-to-15-year-olds after tossing back too many judgment-impairing drinks at their community's root beer saloon.

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