...and there is no Santa Claus

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/a-tv-survivalist-caught-cutting-corners/

My guy Bear Grylls is a fraud. The Man in Man Vs. Wild doesn't really conquer the Amazon rain forest with a knife and a bottle of water. Next thing I know, someone's gonna tell me Barry Bonds took steroids.

Maybe you've seen the show on Discovery. Since I have no life, I watch it all the time, TiVo'ed, when I get home from doing Extra Innings on WLW... Bear in the desert, Bear in the Everglades, Bear eating huge, giant bugs in Ecuador. Turns out, while Bear does eat some foul stuff, he also takes time off from his ardor to hang out in posh hotels. Those rafts that he builds out of bamboo and palm leaves? Turns out he has people build them for him.

I'm crushed. There's no disclaimer, no Bear standing up like a man and saying, yeah, well, maybe I did spend the night at the Four Seasons Botswanaland but, come on, did you really think I went a week without room service and 200-count cotton sheets? At least with other reality shows, you knew they were fake because, really, who'd do all that strange stuff on camera? But Bear sucked me in. Now, I'm hoping he gets eaten by a croc in Queensland. Unless of course, the crocs are fake, too.