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The National Geographic channel has renewed Cesar Millan's excellent reality show, The Dog Whisperer, for 30 more episodes, according to Monsters and Critics.

Gomez finds it interesting, in a bad way, to discover that upon seeking news of the show's renewal with ye olde Google News search we came upon three stories about the show's renewal and more than 100 stories on the fact that the show's host, the comely and gently domineering Mr. Millan, became a U.S. citizen last week.

Yes, Millan was born in Mexico. No, Gomez doesn't care. Gomez does care, in a tired and depressed sort of way that reminds Gomez of a Saint Bernard, that so many mouth-breathers in this country seem to care so much about where people were born. Note to fellow denizens: Mr. Millan is the same talented (and, yes, we'll just say it: sexy) man, regardless of his nationality.

Millan dreamed of coming to the United States to be a dog trainer when he was a young boy watching reruns of Lassie. He is now regarded as the world's foremost expert on dog behavior, and has a talent for reforming dogs (and, more importantly, their owners) that is nothing short of amazing.

We're not sure what it says about our nation or media that they are more focused on Mr. Millan's citizenship than on his outstanding show. Actually, we know what it means, we just don't want to pick it up. Just like we don't want pick up all that chihuahua poop in the back yard.

Gomez has a very bad chihuahua we would like Mr. Millan to rehabilitate, except that we suspect the dog's bad behavior says something about us and nothing about the dog - just like the news media's bad behavior says more about the people they serve than it does about the extinct and noble craft of journalism.