Posted on 02/13/2008 8:16:00 PM PST by kellynla
Judging by the article he wassn’t seriously offended- he was just using the ‘complaint’ in a humorous way to lighten up his speech.
Thanks for your post. I am glad to hear that.
Everybody knows there is no more mafia. Rudy eliminated them.
I think Justice Alito need to calm down LOL!
Ping for later...
” ....he also has one hell of an ability to get Justice Kenndy to side with the Conservatives BY FAR MORE THAN NORMAL.”
Maybe he made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
I agree that the tv show portrayed a stereotype.
I also know that the mob had a shill group in the 1970s established to do the same task that CAIR does to shield the bad members of the group from any criticizism on the basis of “stereotyping”. It wasn’t just that the mob operated while this group deflected criticism, it was established BY the mob to deflect criticism.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
Really topical, the show ended last year. And in it’s first season it addresses the whole “mob movies perpetuating negative stereotypes” situation. The punchline is it doesn’t. People know all Italians aren’t mobsters, the problem is the non-mobster Italians aren’t interesting enough to make movies and TV shows about. Of course if Italian American really are bothered by it maybe they should stop giving examples, almost all the mob fiction out there, including Sopranos, is based (sometimes more loosely than others) on real people.
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