I’ll answer the title question before my rant. She’s thinking “How can I make as much much money as I can if I have no scruples?”
See, I was watching the Food Network and they kept playing Psychic Friends-esque commercials with more or less the following dialogue (I’m conflating two commercials into one rant)
(For full effect, you must read Voodoo Queen Cleo’s lines with a bad, fake, spooky Jamacian accent that she keeps losing (hence the “Voodoo Queen” nickname I’ve given her. She sounds like a bad comic-book villain), both the bimbos (who I have joined into one composite character) have incredulous, yet husky tones connoting both horniness and incredible brainlessness)
Voodoo Queen Cleo: You be callin’ to find out something about your baby. Dat’s true, ain’t it.
Incredulous Bimbo: <gasp> How-did-you-know!?
Voodoo Queen Cleo: You need to know who de father of dat baby is.
Incredulous Bimbo: <gasp> THAT’S RIGHT!
Voodoo Queen Cleo: And you’ livin’ wit’ a guy who ain’t de baby’s papa. Ain’t dat right?
Incredulous Bimbo: <gasp!> My GOD. It’s like you are READING my MIND!!
Voodoo Queen Cleo: De man you be livin’ wit’. He got a violent temper, don’t he?
Incredulous Young Bimbo: <GASP> He IS violent a lot! You are SOOOOooo good!
Voodoo Queen Cleo: I don’t be likin’ you livin wit’ dat mon. I want to see you outta dat relationship in…four months.
Incredulous Young Bimbo: Oh thank you Voodoo Queen Cleo!
My rant:
FOUR MONTHS? With someone who’s “violent”? I don’t expect anything resembling honesty from a dial-up psychic, but simple human decency will prompt anyone to advise the Incredulous Young Bimbo to get out NOW if he’s violent. What the hell are they thinking? What kind of vile sleeze would shill for such a company?
Yes, I understand that the caller(s) are fictional, and that Phone Psychics are, at best, frauds or scam artists or worse. But my gripe is: what kind of scum advertises that she’ll tell battered women to stick it out longer? Yes, many battered women want to hear this message, but to advertise that you’ll give them that message is like a tavern advertising that they’ll accept Alcholics Anonymous tokens in lieu of payment.
This Cleo bitch (or whatever organization she’s the spokesthing for) is one of the most disgusting scum I’ve ever had the misfortune to see. I put her in the same catagory of shit-on-two-legs that I put a New Mexico lawyer who used to have TV advertisements that he could keep drunk drivers “out of jail and on the road”.
Truly disgusted,
Fenris