If Kim Kardashian can get married, why can't Neil Patrick Harris?

In a shocking revelation this week, Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from her husband of 72 days, Kris Humphries.   Just as her mother’s book is hitting bookstores across America.  I guess since they couldn’t get Khloe pregnant to coincide with the book release, Kim had to get divorced.  This family is nothing if not masters of multi tasking and attention whoring.  I’m hoping if Khloe does get pregnant there is no two part TV special of the conception or the delivery.

But back to Kim.

My first initial reaction was Wow Lindsay Lohan had longer jail stays than Kim Kardashian’s marriage.

The attention whoring of that family isn’t the problem.  They’ve found their niche.  They know branding.  They have made millions suckling at the teat of America’s obsession with all things Hollyweird.  And train wrecks.  I mean, thank god her father defended OJ during the murder trial, otherwise nobody would have cared about her sex tape that made her famous.  Kim’s ex, Reggie Bush, has started doing commercials for Pizza Hut proving who the money maker was in that relationship; Kim’s vagina.

I have heard it reported that between the E! television Network’s deal to throw and televise the wedding, the honeymoon that was paid for, all the gifts, the sale of the ‘exclusive’ rights to the wedding photos, and the reality show, Kim made $140,000 for every day she was married.   There has been talk around the media, that Kris Humphries was hand picked for Kim by ‘the powers that be’.  They approached him, asked him if, for a rather large sum of money, he would date Kim for her reality show.  He was reluctant to be on the show, but eventually agreed. I’m wondering how much he sold his dignity for.  Also? I’m sure the phrase ‘you will be always be known as Kim Kardashian’s ex husband’ was uttered in the negotiations to get Kris Humphries to go along with this sham.

What I don’t understand is how is it completely acceptable for attention whores in Hollywood to make a joke of the sanctity of marriage for financial gain, when committed same sex partners aren’t granted the right to have an honest marriage?  I can promise you E! Network won’t be offering the same deal to Neil Patrick Harris and his partner.

And that’s a wedding I’d pay to see.

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