Posted on 03/02/2005 8:15:55 AM PST by Rakkasan1
More than 9 million people across the country are expected to watch Minneapolis resident Mina Leierwood make her television debut tonight on ABC's reality hit "Wife Swap." It's a strange move for a 39-year-old Quaker art teacher who doesn't watch TV.
"I just figured that somebody had to step up and say how they felt," said Leierwood during an interview Tuesday morning at the MayDay Cafe in South Minneapolis. "I wanted to see a pacifist on TV."
The producers of "Wife Swap," a show where two women from different mindsets trade families for two weeks, sought out Leierwood two days after the presidential election last November. They were looking to explore the issue of a nation divided, and Leierwood fit the left side of the bill perfectly. To show the country's great political divide, the Leierwoods, who live in Minneapolis' Powderhorn Park neighborhood, would be paired with the Patricks, a conservative, military family in rural Kentucky.
Wearing a black T-shirt with the message "Complacent = Compliant" spelled out in white letters, Leierwood sipped green tea as she recalled her experience on the reality show.
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"I just figured that somebody had to step up and say how they felt," said Leierwood during an interview Tuesday morning at the MayDay Cafe in South Minneapolis. "I wanted to see a pacifist on TV."
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Thanks for this latest peek into the huge and fast-growing category of "must miss" T.V.
How would someone who doesn't watch tv get the idea that appearing on a cheesy reality show with a title like "Wife Swap" would change any minds or get her message out? It sounds like she was put up to it by somebody.
Leierwood didn't play by all the rules. She chose to sleep at a nearby hotel because, she said, she was uncomfortable with the guns and a crossbow in the Patricks' house.Isn't hypocracy grand?"It unnerved me more to sleep in a house with guns," Leierwood said, "than to live in my neighborhood with gangs."
Just damn.
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... pacifist- they never make sense.
This woman obviously has a terminal case of dumbass...
I want to see a Pacifist on TV too -- I want to see them standing idly by while a terrorist threatens their entire family with slow death. Then I want to see a US Marine rush in and blow the terrorist away before he carries out his nefarious plans.
Ah, yes. She just had to step up to the plate because there are so few leftist peaceniks represented on TV. Of course.
And ABC immediately recognized that they had to fix this imbalance in their programming.
Wouldn't the tv and video cameras suck in her soul and kill her, or something?
So what is she trying to say there?
Think of it!!!! Now for some $5000 you can buy one of these now magnificent TV sets and see sh*t in glorious detail.
Can "smell-o-vision" be far behind?
Where I'm from we'd say she's "ate up with the dumb ass".
LOL.
This same scenario happened on another show - maybe "Trading Spouses." I was flipping around one night and I watched a woman who had been swapped, who was anti-war and a real b***h, berate a man that had a son in law in Iraq. The man looked like he was going to punch her, but kept his cool.
Actually when I saw this post I thought it was a repeat.
That about sums it all up, doesn't it? Liberals never really play by the rules do they?
OMG I saw that show. I wanted to KILL her *lol*
If you buy a TV you'll see plenty.
The Southern mom went up to Minneapolis and found a biracial family living in a very sterile, uncomfortable house where everyone was required to take off his shoes before entering. The kids were repressed and depressed, but she tried to teach them to relax and have fun. It was sad to see the eldest Minneapolis child, who had been turned into a neurotic her mother--the poor girl spent half her life cleaning while muttering to herself about how filthy everything was, even though it was spotless. She really needs therapy.
Actually, I'd say this could be good. Imagine a house full of conservatives, kids included, taking her to task with her wacky, leftist notions.
I say she cried by the second show because the conservative family was laughing so hard at her tea sipping, crystal worshipping, mother earth crap. I know I'd have some fun!
Seems to be repeating itself... I'm getting confused. Did you see the one with the lesbian family and the christian conservative family?
Wait a minute. Is that the one where the mom said something really snotty about the Iraq war? Her husband looked really depressed.
Actually this is a good thing, it means that the people who watch this show get to see just how stupid pacifists like her are. Which in turn will eventually turn more and more people away from the "Dark Side" AKA Liberalism.
'a very sterile, uncomfortable house where everyone was required to take off his shoes before entering. The kids were repressed and depressed,' Sounds like my former in-laws house. We had to take our shows off so as not to ruin the SOLID OAK hardwood floors
'the eldest Minneapolis child, who had been turned into a neurotic her mother--the poor girl spent half her life cleaning while muttering to herself about how filthy everything was, even though it was spotless.' Yeesh flashback time. That sounds just like my first wife, G*d rest her soul. She used to get upset with me if the Christmas ornaments weren't hung perfectly straight on the tree or if I didn't run the vacuum cleaner just the way she liked. We had the most sterile, cold, uninviting, but d**m clean house I have ever lived in.
I guess I'm way out of it. What exactly happens on a wife swap show? Or trading wives show? what are the boundaries, if any?
You should have introduced your first wife to FreeRepublic. Since I've discovered FR I have had a hard time keeping up with the housework!
probably a different blue state moron. we have plenty to
go around here in MN
We'd say "eat up with dumb a$$".
My fiance will never have to complain of that.
I was really surprised the husband was so nice to her afterwards. She was so disrespectful!
"I just figured that somebody had to step up and say how they felt," said Leierwood during an interview Tuesday morning at the MayDay Cafe in South Minneapolis. "I wanted to see a pacifist on TV."
Ah, another leftist who never saw a standard she wouldn't compromise in order to push her agenda. Gosh, maybe she was even lying about not being a tv watcher.
I confess, I want to see it, too. If I remember to tune it in, I will.
So to this woman "compliant" is a good thing?
I know one of them (I think trading spouses, but not sure) pays each family 50K to swap wives for a week - but the wives get to decide how the other family's money is spent. There is no sex involved - or I am sure there would be husbands all over America signing their wives up.
I think that's just too sick for me. I wouldn't do that for $1,000,000!
Since when does stuff like that make you neurotic? If you've got kids, you're constantly cleaning just to keep the place presentable, let alone spotless. Especially when you've got little ones that like to stick stuff in their mouths. Ah well, if that makes me neurotic, so be it. I don't require my guests to take their shoes off, after all. (Though after a couple of vists, they notice we aren't wearing ours and usually take them off themselves. I personally think it's more comfortable to be shoeless, plus cuts down on vacuuming!).
Ok, I'm done hijacking now. :)
Yes. Her husband has the patience of Job though.
Actually, I'm a neat freak myself. The kids and I are allergic to house dust and molds, so my house really has to be spotless. Just got done nailing down and finishing 2000 square feet of oak hardwood flooring because the allergist said it would be cleaner in the bedrooms than the carpeting. I also don't mind if the kids make a mess (though I do expect them to clean up after themselves, at their ages). If that makes me neurotic, then you and I can be neurotic together. ;-)
But this woman was really sick. That episode depicted a tense, miserable little girl, afraid to have any fun, unable to relax, continually terrified of what her mother would do to her when she got back from her visit to the South. The child was talking to herself about imaginary "filth" as she obsessionally cleaned. It was disturbing. Any liberal who makes her children so crazy ought to be flogged. Her kids didn't have any sense of play, and as another poster noted, her husband was depressed. They were all so much happier when the Southern mom brought in some bright colors and houseplants, and suggested fun things to do (like having a party and spraying each other with Silly String). It was clear that the Minneapolis father had his eyes opened, and when his wife came back he had some words for her.
Nothing beats the nutball animal rights vegan lady sent to live with the gator-hunting Cajun family. What a neurotic hypocrit.
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This is the one I saw too - it was depressing. The neat freak mom comes home to her family and nails them about silly string on the ceiling, berates the husband and the kids sit there like zombies. The berated husband gets the last laugh though - since the other wife decides how they get to spend their 50K - she gives the berated husband 15K for a motorcylce. I loved that.
LOL! Sounds like a plan...you laid all that flooring yourself? THAT must've been a project and a half! Hope it helps cut down on the allergies...I've heard that that does help. Cleaning them, though...ugh. LOL
Well, that's a slightly different take on it than I had first presumed. It's pretty sad when you've got your kids wound that tight over something...kids make messes! It's in their nature, lol. I just expect mine to help clean up the ones they make, is all. They are too small to do much, but they can do that. I can't imagine making them feel so anxious they would be obsessing over "filth" everywhere and looking over their shoulders like that. Poor little thing...I know my husband would have a few words for me, too, if I were to be that way.
The best matchup ever was the PETA girl with The Nuge. Shemane was nice but he liked to torture her *lol*
Well that ain't good english! Hehe.
"You should have introduced your first wife to FreeRepublic. Since I've discovered FR I have had a hard time keeping up with the housework!"
You and me both!!! I am so glad I am not the only one! Which reminds me, I really SHOULD go down and switch loads of laundry. *sigh* ;-)
lol
"So to this woman "compliant" is a good thing?"
I guess. Perhaps she is hoping they will not kill her, but only enslave her instead? I don't really understand the mind of a socialist so I can't be sure. The only thing I am sure of is, what ever she wants, it isn't logical.
Ok, but if her new "husband" beats her up, she's a hypocrite if she (a) fights back or (b) calls the cops or (c) attempts to stop it in any way.
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