Is Big Brother 8 Rigged?

How Far Will CBS Go for Ratings?

Big Brother is one of CBS's highest rated shows. The show follows 13 houseguests as they lie, scheme and do whatever else it takes to be the last man or woman standing at the end of three months. The winner is rewarded with a $500,000 cash prize.

This season, as in seasons past, there are a few houseguests that stand out, but none so much as the Donatos, Dick Donato and his daughter Danielle. 

Danielle entered the house first, but her father came in a short while after in what CBS was calling a "twist" in the game. A few of the houseguests were going to have the misfortune of having someone from there past enter the house and compete against them. No one in the house was supposed to know about this twist.

Over the course of the last few months "Evel" Dick, as he is known to his friends, has shown the world exactly how evil he really is. He has verbally and physically assaulted other players. He has attacked the houseguests' sexual preferences, their spiritual beliefs and their families and CBS has stood by and watched him do it all, but why? Are the ratings so important that you would allow one man to put you in the position where the network could possibly be sued for a whole host of things? The answer to that question is obviously yes, because ED continues to play the game with the same malicious, hateful, childish behavior that he has since the beginning, but as the weeks go on you start to see that things aren't exactly what they seem.

There are a number of sites on the web dedicated to Big Brother. On these sites you can read blogs and recaps about what's going on in the house. These bloggers and BB enthusiast subscribe to the live feeds and report every word and action on their site.

Throughout those sites everyone seems to be all a buzz about how Dick and his "innocent" daughter Danielle are playing the game, but there is also talk of blatant cheating by ED and allegations that the game is possibly rigged in order for ED and his daughter to stay in the house longer or possibly when the whole game.