Brazilian crime show host kills for ratings?

Is it just me or is Network starting to look like more and more of a reverse documentary?

Here's the latest step towards "hell yes." Newser reports that a Brazilian host of a popular crime show put out hits on people, so their bizarre murders would boost his ratings.

The show, Canal Livre, seemed to have an almost Clark Kent-ish ability to be the first on some very gruesome murder and crime scenes. Luckily, one of the show's plucky interns, Jimino Olseno, pointed this out to the local authorities who launched their investigation.

The Associated Press reports that the host, Wallace Souza, also worked as a state legislator in the region. So, he's on TV and he's in politics. If reporters also discover he works as a covert lobbyist of a major tobacco company, he will have completed the Trifecta of Evil and jump to the top of the Anti-Christ candidate list.

His motives are two-fold. The hits he ordered were to get rid of rival drug dealers and increase crime in the area in order to keep interest in his show high and prove his show's claims that violent crime was on the rise. He was also one show away before giving his viewers the chance to vote on which person they would like to see killed in next week's episode, before the police swooped in and spoiled everything.

Of course, he denied all of the allegations and claimed the whole mess was a set-up by rival dealers and political enemies who are angry with his criminal reduction record. Unfortunately, his record for honesty isn't all that good. Before he scored his own show, he was thrown out of the police department on theft and corruption charges. His son has already been charged with drug trafficking and homicide. And let's not forget the most telling fact of all, he's a politician.

Wow, Glenn Beck, I understand him now.