C’mon, Sammy. Sit down, eat something. Have a drink.
Sammy, Sammy. I know you how long? Please. Eat.
the successful half of my lineage is Italian. Senators, concert pianists, one very liberal SEC attorney...my grandfather built his house with his own two hands and it still stands today...
It’s a TV PROGRAM for craps sake!!
Korzine, Menendezzz and McGreedy aren’t Italian-American.
Alito should lighten up.
Here in South Jersey/Philadelphia area, many people of Italian descent were big fans of the show, The Sopranos, though some people complained about it.
But Alito is right. For a long time, it seemed that, whenever someone in politics had a vowel at the end of his or her name, the press was always looking for a mafia connection. Meanwhile, Bill and Hillary’s friends were meeting all sorts of mysterious demises, and the MSM never questioned them.
I bet the Saturday afternoon Harley riding baby boomer audience wouldn’t have been such a fan of the Sopranos if the show featured characters other than not particularly in-shape baby boomers that the audience could easily identify with.
Of course nobody had ever heard of the mafia before The Sopranos.
First there was the Union Corse, a French "mafia" based in New Orleans and Detroit, and at all the main stops along the river route, and then the railroads.
It was one of the reasons the Sicilian and Italian mob had to set up in Toledo and Chicago as the Midwest was developed ~ all the good spots had already been taken.
Their genius was to get the Italians in New Jersey blamed for all of it!
I love Alito and his conservative thoughts, but why complain about a show that has gone off the air a year ago??? Plus stereo type Italians??? Come on. Just concentrate on your job. We don’t need to hear from you. What happened to the Supreme Court being secret. I like it better the old way.
Everybody knows there is no more mafia. Rudy eliminated them.
I think Justice Alito need to calm down LOL!
Ping for later...
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.