Haterade: John Rich

Over the past couple of months I've had a new television obsession: The Celebrity Apprentice. I've been watching 2+ hours of this show a week, just to see John Rich defeat Marlee Matlin and win the whole thing last night. When Trump questioned him, he only had two real arguments as to why he should win. The first is that he was project manager more than anyone else on the show. Well, John's team lost more than Marlee's team, leaving them with fewer options for project manager...hence why he was project manager more than anyone else. His main argument was that he came on the show for one reason: the he loved his charity St. Jude Children's Hospital. He was really obsessed with the place.

Now I am not going to knock his charity. It's a great charity. However, this is the Celebrity Apprentice. If John Rich really wanted to raise money for his charity, he could have held a charity concert for St. Jude's and made more money in one night than he would have during the entire season of Celebrity Apprentice. The fact that he loves his charity is not reason enough for him to win in my eyes. He should have highlighted his success on the show when arguing about why he should win. I'm not saying that he performed poorly on the show, he was honestly one of the best, but his argument that he should win because of his passion for his charity was just a cop out to me. Marlee clearly has an attachment to her charity, but she also argued that her success on the show would be influential to other deaf people. Marlee's argument was much more convincing to me, and I really think that that she should have won.

Well, enough about this season of the Apprentice. Soon I'll post my list of who should be on the next celebrity apprentice.