If these two don't end up in jail, then America society has lost the battle against its own need for attention

As you all might have heard, a couple by the names of Michaele and Tareq Salahi recently snuck into a White House state dinner to take pictures with President Obama and Joe Biden.  Normally, I wouldn’t care about any of this, except this incident is a clear case of a trend taking place in today’s pop-culture.  A sickening desire for fame at any price.

The Salahis were eventually caught though that didn’t stop them from posting pictures of themselves with the political leaders on their Facebook profiles. Now, news outlets around the country want to interview them, but according to www.examiner.com, the pair will only agree to give interviews to those that pay them hundreds of thosands of dollars. Michaele Salahi, who apparently wanted to appear on the reality TV show “The Real Housewives of DC,” undoubtedly used this stunt to publicize herself and gain the attention she clearly craves.

Here, let me walk you through it. In my opinion, it all started with the Jon and Kate fiasco. I said it then, and I’ll say it now: Why did those two get thrust into the middle of the limelight for destroying their “perfect, sweet family,” which was the only reason they were remotely famous in the first place.

What should have happened, America, is that we should have forgotten about them as soon as it stopped being about their kids. Instead, no, we decided that we would reward them for exploiting their children and wrecking their family by giving them all the fame they could possibly ever want.

From that moment on, people have followed in their footsteps, trying to get the fame they want in any way possible. After seeing the success of “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” the Octomom decided that she would gain fame by having eight kids at the same time. Nevermind that she couldn’t possibly support all these children, nevermind that she was a mental health disaster, she went right along with it anyways. Sure enough, our good ol’ American culture was right there to give her all the fame she wanted, rewarding her for putting her children’s lives in danger and unknowingly encouraging other attention seekers to follow in her footsteps.

Next up was Balloon Boy, followed by the Salahis. Now, the biggest difference in these two cases from the first two is that these cases actually involve people breaking the law for attention and fame. In both cases, the families involved wanted to be either on a reality show or a news interview, and they saw these illegal means as the best way to work their way into the spotlight.

America, we can no longer allow this to happen. Our culture is becoming addicted to attention. If we do not draw the line now, people across the country will be breaking the law to get on TV. Of course, I’m not helping the problem by blogging about these people, increasing their fame, but I need to in order to state emphatically that these people that break the law should be punished for their actions. Furthermore, even if they do not break the law, but merely put the lives of others in danger, as Octomom has done, we need to shun then from the public view. We can’t keep rewarding people for this irresponsible behavior. We have to draw the line at some point, and I see now as the best time to do it.