Inside Reality TV's Latest Humiliating Show

You are in a chair, sitting, waiting to hear your next question. Your pulse quickens, your hands are clammy, your heart races. The question comes, your family watching. You see your loved ones wince in pain. Welcome to the TV show, Moment of Truth.

So tonight I watched a television show that was pretty damn disturbing. I watched the Moment of Truth and for the first time, I found myself truly disturbed by television. Not the show, because the show is merely an enabler. No, I was disturbed by the contestant. The picture is painted. Our contestant, whose name escapes me, is playing for $500,000.00. She is being asked personal questions and they only get worse. Her mother, father, sister and husband are in the crowd. She decides to make this the moment that she comes clean with everything. One by one, the questions just demolish her family. "Were you in love with an ex-boyfriend on your wedding day?" "Yes." Her ex came out and asked if she felt that she should be married to him, she said yes. Her husband, watching from the sideline looked like he would vomit. They then asked her "Since you have been married, have you had sexual relations with anyone other than your husband?" She said she continued to answer questions because she wanted to get the truth out there. If she answers with anything but the truth, she loses everything, but with nothing to lose, she proceeds. Her husbands heart broken, her family looking on in shock, she answered "Yes." She had sex with another man. Everything stops, because now it is way too real for TV. She says she wants to keep going. "Do you feel you are a good person?" She answers yes, that through it all, she feels she is a good person. Like the Wizard, a voice comes across with a quiet boom "That answer is... false." After all that, her life getting torn apart, her husband being shredded and pretty much humiliated on national tv, the simplest question put her out of the game. The question of the day though, is what would you do for money?