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"  (Optional soundtrack to this blog post...) Just in case we didn&amp;#039;t have enough to worry about, we seem to be approaching the reality-TV event-horizon down in New Jersey. Celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach is enlisting the help of his friends in reality television in an early push in his run for Congress. The former host of &amp;quot;Shalom in the Home,&amp;quot; now seeking to unseat Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell, will be joined by &amp;quot;Jon &amp;amp;amp; Kate Plus 8&amp;quot; star Jon Gosselin at an event in Bergen County on Wednesday, his campaign announced. &amp;quot;Gosselin will speak about his life, the disintegration of his marriage on national television and how tax deductible marriage counseling could have saved it, and the help he has received from Rabbi Shmuley,&amp;quot; Boteach spokeswoman Jennifer Seley said in the announcement. First of all, &amp;quot;celebrity rabbi&amp;quot;? Do you really do all that studying so you can come through it as &amp;quot;celebrity rabbi&amp;quot;? Oy. Secondly, John And Kate Plus 8 later, retitled around these parts as John And Kate Plus Hate \u2014 was a primary guilty pleasure around the blog&amp;#039;s house during its entire run on television, and you couldn&amp;#039;t have saved that marriage with a defibrillator hooked up to a nuclear reactor. This family made the Borgias look like they lived in Walnut Grove. Evil twin Maddy was just waiting for the day she could run off with the local meth dealer and learn to shoot a gun. In the interview segments, John always looked like the star of a hostage video released by Colombian drug guerrillas while Kate looked as though she&amp;#039;d date an armadillo if it showed up with its own camera crew. And the celebrity rabbi&amp;#039;s going to run for Congress on a platform of, &amp;quot;I Could&amp;#039;ve Saved This Circus Act If They&amp;#039;d Called Me Sooner&amp;quot;? My god, that whole Revolutionary War thing has turned out to be such a waste of time. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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