Sideshow: ‘Snooki’ arrested for disorderly conduct

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, of MTV's faux-reality show Jersey Shore, was arrested Friday in Seaside Heights for disorderly conduct. Reports say she was booked for being drunk in public.

This was reality, but it could have been the show.

Check that: It was the show. It was real, that is, but the cameras were rolling, and it'll all get kneaded into America's leading intellectual examination of Atlantic coast culture.

Photos show a bouffant-less Snooki, in a T-shirt with the fetching message SLUT, getting hauled off by a brace of New Jersey's finest.

Unnamed Source says Snooki "just needs to be in a drunk tank for two hours." Who doesn't, right? Unnamed tells TMZ Snooki was in a bar drinking "body shots" - sipped out of someone's navel. Yum!

What spurred this littoral rampage? Could it be Thursday's The View on ABC, when Joy Behar asked President Obama about Snooki . . . and he drew a blank? That'll get on the show, too.