Jon & Kate + Hate

Whoa! There is some serious schadenfreude happening in the US. First there was the adoration that fetus fetishists heaped upon octo-mom, only to back pedal furiously and run shrieeeking from the media phenom as grittier details of her life emerged. Now it appears that the long-suffering residents of Wernersville Pennsylvania have ratted out Jon and Kate to the paparazzi. Rather than bringing economic prosperity to the town and generating good will, it appears that the couple's egoistic arrogance and ostentatious preening has provoked quite the nasty backlash.

As evidence of their marital melt-down spreads from the tabloids to prime-time TV, it would seem that Jon and Kate did not learn the # 1 lesson of how to exploit and harvest the fruits of breeding multiples: Make sure that you share some of the profits of your industry with the community. And by that, I don't mean scoring free haircuts from the styling salon in town, like the odd rooster coif Kate is sporting while promoting her merchandise.

Doing the fetus fetishists' back-pedal

It's not a new dance craze. It's what the zygote zealots do when they attempt to gloss over their MASSIVE tactical error, by blindly supporting octuplet mom Nadya Suleman.

Quick to pass judgment is Karoline Byler, a Roman Catholic who received hormone shots to stimulate ovulation. The Vatican has taken an official position against abortion and in-vitro fertilization but Byler was able to get pregnant yet obey the doctrine of her Church because she carried all six fetus to term. It wasn’t easy, though the Bylers’ pediatrician authorized nursing assistance since one of the babies still required oxygen three months after their birth by C-section.

Nadya Suleman recently turned down support from the Christian group Angels in Waiting which had offered to raise money to provide her and the babies with a house and 24-hour care. Sniffed Karoline Byler: “To be frank, I think that she’s an attention whore.”

Could that be the sound of sour grapes talking? The Bylers once had an exclusive contract with Inside Edition. Wonder how that’s going for them, now that sextuplets have become ho-hum.

Octuplets = $2 Million

Well, of course, she would.

THE single mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2m (£1.37m) from media interviews and commercial sponsorship to help pay the cost of raising the children.

Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert after it emerged last week that she already had six children before giving birth on Monday. She now has 14 below the age of eight.

Although still confined to an LA hospital bed, she intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and Diane Sawyer, who presents Good Morning America.

Her family has told agents she needs cash from deals such as nappy sponsorship — she will get through 250 a week in the next few months — and the agents will gauge public reaction to her story.

I swear, you cannot make this shit up.

And as Canadian Cynic points out: suddenly the fetus fetishists are all A-OK with a single woman having a zillion children.