Are there no limits to how low someone will sink to win a few bucks? I find this show no less offensive than filming the activity at a line of bathroom stalls with glass doors.
Contestants hooked up to a lie detector will face such questions on Fox's The Moment of Truth, a game show so controversial that a Colombian version was shelved after a woman there revealed she put a hit out on her husband. The real question is: Just how far will the American edition go?
...and yet this woman still walked away with $25,000.
"We're not out to destroy somebody," says executive producer and creator Howard Schultz. "I don't think there's any joy in watching someone crumble under the lights. So, typically, the people that we cast to be contestants are stronger people. They have good self-esteem and a strong sense of themselves."
Strong people with good self-esteem and a strong sense of themselves don't go on national television to answer questions about whether they are repulsed by fat people, if they ever force themselves to throw up or if they think their spouse might be gay.
