Pictured: Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. Photo credit: Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

Nicole Polizzi, better known as Snooki, from the MTV reality show The Jersey Shore, was arrested yesterday for disorderly conduct while at the Seaside Heights boardwalk.  The self-proclaimed Princess of Poughkeepsie was allegedly bothering people while under the influence (alcohol, the devil?), as production cameras reportedly churned.  Rather than taking her 15 minutes and leaving the stage, Polizzi has been given a third year-in your face because of the bizarre nature of reality TV (Where the only thing worse than death is anonymity) and the public’s obvious thirst for the defunct carny freak show concept.

Remember when the do-gooders vilified and removed the most popular tent acts (nature’s cruelest mistakes) from the carnival midways?  Well, they’ve made a comeback in a big way thanks to cable television.  A subset of the “human oddities” sideshow are the higher class trailer-trash cat-fight programs like MTV’s Jersey Shore.  The cable universe has dusted off the larger (Geek Show) genre, given it a Orwellian imprimatur of respectability (with PC names), while patronizing and celebrating ‘nature’s kindest exceptionalies’ (Nightmare Alley) to a new audience.

Snooki has made the talk show circuit, the chattering classes and has finally arrived with honorable mention in HollywoodOutbreak.  How do you top that?  Whoever figures out how to repackage a morphidite behind the pit show blow-off curtain will be the next big thing.

It was just the day after President Obama said he didn’t know who Snooki was (when asked on The View TV show), that Polizzi hit page six.  Coincidence?  With show cameras rolling for season three?  Seems the 4′9″ diva lives the kind of publicity-craving life that even Kathy Griffin couldn’t invent.

Posted by Mike Cartel