OK, it's possible that's not a factual statement, but its starting to seem like the Sheen-hater nation may actually be the ones who are on a bad trip...loaded with disorientation & blurred perceptions.
The Entertainment shows & collective intereweb is in overdrive dragging out every last juicy morsel of salacious crap they can get their small minds around to feed their content masters. You've heard all the stories already. Then Charlie got fed up and decided to go out on his own to tell his story without a net, something unheard of inside the TMZ where its di'rigour to have "teams" that probably even help celebs pee.
Charlie says he's fighting for his co-workers...and probably that 2 million per show. CBS says they've had enough...or maybe they made enough to end 2.5 men & get away from Charlie. The surprise is how Charlie is both able and lucid enough to point out how crazy their decisions seem to be as well as taking ownership of his latest bender(s). Don't get me wrong, he has said some wacky stuff, but suggested it was mostly in jest. Either way, the tour is actually making Charlie more sympathetic! Charlie says hes sober now cause he chooses to be, but that's unacceptable to the wags who are certain you have to follow "the plan" to get back on the straight & narrow path. But I have been around people who needed 28 days (or more) and have also seen friends who "gave it up" in a single day. In the end, only Charlie knows...and everyone else is guessing.
He has undoubtedly led a rock stars life in a network TV fishbowl, but being a successful Personality does not come with a requirement of morality...just personality. So I could care less about his habits, because they're his. But many others don't share that type of moral moral tolerance. Moral indignation is a heavy stone to throw, one that most folks would have boomerang back through their glass houses.
But why do we care anyway? If you read a great book by an anonymous author, does it matter if he's a drunk? If you buy a tasty cake at the store, does it matter if the baker is a jerk? You get the idea. As long as the product is good and they get it done without causing others any grief or pain...John Q should care even less than CBS. But not in our over-informed, gotta have an opinion world.
He's a sinner not a saint, and he certainly seems to have a surreal perspective on life, along with a trippy vocabulary. He's definitely not Father-of-the-year material, and how it affects his kids is really the only thing that concerns me because they are innocent...but the producers who work 15 hours a day and never see their family may not have it right either. And how about the irony that the family show they think he's too embarrassing to be on, is the raunchiest thing on TV before 9p...and a show about, well Charlie and his real life.
CBS and the producers seem to have just gotten tired of dealing with a difficult personality, so instead of manning up and working through it they took the easy way out...painting themselves as concerned victims. Charlie was an idiot for putting that kind of cash, and the staff he says he's concerned about, at risk in the first place. But he's not a role model, he's not an elected official (although many are at least as "bad" as he is), and he doesn't have a higher purpose...except maybe getting high. So take him as he is, watch the drama unfold, and try to remember...it's only a TV show.
