All that glitters ain’t gold. Caricature by Mike Briggs.

A forty-something woman from Colorado says she has had enough.  Cyndy Snider has started an on-line petition asking the E! television network to kick Keeping Up With the Kardashians off the air.  For good.

The ‘Boycott Kim Kardashian’ petition states:

Dear E! Online,

We are respectfully requesting that your network find other shows to air.

Keeping Up With the Kardashians is just not viewing that we, the public, would like to see from your network.  Enough is enough.

A petition . . . will be forwarded . . . requesting that the show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, ends.

So far on Snider’s site, BoycottKim.com, 165,000 people have signed the petition.  Nearly 80,000 have recommended it to their Facebook friends.

“We feel that these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption,” Snider said, according to an AOL report.  “While some may have begun watching the spectacle as mindless entertainment or as a sort of ‘reality satire,’ it is a sad truth that many young people are looking up to this family and are modeling their appearance and behavior after them.”

If the number of times the petition site has crashed due to high traffic is any indication, Snider’s BoycottKim.com and sister sites like BoycotttheKardashians.com seem to be gaining ground.  Like the 99ers occupying Wallstreet, Snider is hoping that the rest of America, including the 10 million following Kim Kardashian on Twitter, will join her in igniting her Anti-Kardashian campaign across the country.

But if we know Ryan Seacrest and old Applehead (Guiliana Rancid) over there at E! Entertainment, they are already feverishly working on brainwashing us into believing that blackhanding Kris Humphries is far more desirable than showing Kim Kardashian the finger.  They will edit, reconfigure, and oil him up for the post-wedding electrocution on Kim and Kourtney Take New York .  Then after they have transformed him into the Frankenstein who should never have been awakened or disturbed, they won’t stop there.  Kris Humphries will become the black Frankenstein who should have never been roused from the sleepiness of anonymity.

See how (black) Frankenstein abuses her with his abusive tone of voice?  See how he throws her around like a rag doll?  See how he talks down to all the short, well-meaning (white) people?  See how he’s just a big old homophobe?  See how he’s not neat (tidy or cool) enough to be with Kim?  See how he thinks he’s the star of the show?  See how he disrespects the whole family (even the ugliest duckling Khloe, who deserves it)?  See how he stands so tall over them all, out of work and belching in their faces?  See how Kim was so right to divorce him?  Did you know he even called her—gasp—fat?  See how he never belonged here?  See—oh, say can’t you see—how wrong he was for her—for us?!  Trust.  It will—no, shall—get this ridiculous.

Ryan Seacrest and E! TV will go Clinton-campaign-2008-crazy if this Kardashian money-making machine even looks like it’s about to get a scratch or a dent or rust growing on it from rubbing up next to Kris Humphries.  For the sake of what’s left of Kris Humphries’ good name, standing as close as static cling in protest with Cyndy Snider against the Kardashians, their brand, and the smug arrogance of Ryan Seacrest might be the right thing to do.

Not only does Cyndy Snider want us to “Boycott Kim Kardashian and all that she stands for,” she also wants us to “go after those who hire her and give her incentive to continue to pollute our culture.”*  Will you join her and the thousands now standing in protest against the garish pocketbooks, jewelry, shoes, accursed Babylonian garments, stink oils, Glamour Glow (body blackening solution), and every product made in America or China that even has a “K” on the label?  I will.  To hell with the Kardashians and rickets!  To pledge my loyalty, I’ll even give up vitamin K.

*Including Tyler Perry’s The Marriage Counselor.  Must there always be a black man in the middle of a Kardashian?