[PJ-Comix]

The Discovery Channel acknowledges that the scenes in the Amish Mafia reality show are re-enactments, ABC News notes, but claims the stories are all true.

Re-enactments of FICTION. I watched several hours of "Amish Mafia" last night and while it is entertaining it is also laughably fake. I mean would a real "mafia" allow cameras to record them selling liquor without a license? In real life, the state authorities would shut that operation down pronto. And that Merwyn guy from Ohio? So over the top ridiculous that you just have to laugh about it.

[PJ-Comix]

Swedish Mafia? Or how about a show called “Monk Mafia” in which a group of Benedictine Monks protect their territory for the sales of their brandy.

[Responsibility2nd]

The Discovery Channel.

The same network that brings us ‘Moonshiners’.

[Sybeck1]

Reminds me of a Weird Al song.

[cripplecreek]

while it is entertaining it is also laughably fake.

Agreed. The Amish do use "enforcers" but from what I've seen they're nothing like that. More often than not, they're English attorneys.

[jdub]

the whole purpose of these shows is to denigrate people who follow their faith.

[moovova]

Meanwhile, the Amish, who don’t own TV’s, wonder what the heck we’re taking about.

[ScottinVA]

Those who assign “reality” to so-called “reality TV” are way short of the requisite number of brain cells for meaningful functionality. They’re the ultimate in trash TV.

[count-your-change]

Not real? Levi says you may end up sleeping with the canned goods. It's an Amish thing.

These so-called reality shows are a hoot. I like the Moonshiners for their utter incompetence. They work so hard and produce so little and all in secret with only the television audience watching.

[henkster]

Networks like Discovery Channel and History Channel started out with some really great programing and filled a niche that appealed to me. But I guess there are too many stupid, or just plain crazy, people out there who need to be pandered to with "Nazi UFO Conspiracy." Or, who could forget this? "I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens."

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: this Amish mafia is about as real as the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in The Office. ::

Soooooooooooooooo...why do I have a ream of Dunder Mifflin copy paper on my desk and a full carton in the supply cabinet?

[Resolute Conservative]

Reminds me of an old joke..

What is this, “Clip clop, clip clop, bang bang, clip clop, clip clop...”

An Amish drive by shooting.

[stuartcr]

The only reality show worth watching is Duck Dynasty.

[Polyxene]

“The Discovery Channel acknowledges that the scenes in the Amish Mafia reality show are re-enactments, ABC News notes, but claims the stories are all true.”

Fake but accurate.

[ichabod1]

Amish behaving badly is always entertaining. The left can’t afford to allow the notion that anyone might actually be true to their principles.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Yeah? Next you will tell me Honey Boo Boo is not real....
Freegards
LEX
btw...Amish Mafia is entertaining who the heck cares if its real...
Like Amish Mafia is fake
Congress is real?
Seriously?
Freegards
LEX

[bgill]

“Breaking Amish” was outted some time ago as a total fake. The gal with the false teeth and the skinny guy were already married and had a kid before the show started. The floozy has a longer arrest record than just one DUI. I don't recall what was said about the Mennonite woman but the other guy had left the Amish community years before and had kids.

[headstamp 2]

With “Moonshiners” and now this garbage, reality TV has finally jumped the shark.

[headstamp 2]

As show writers ran out of ideas, now we are running out of reality.

[bimboeruption]

I started watching it and when they showed Levi’s arrest record it showed that he was arrested in Shelby, Ohio, a few years ago.
I live 8 miles away from Shelby.

There is a large Mennonite/Amish population is this area. I’m going to ask around and see if anyone’s heard of Levi and what his reputation is.

[driftless2]

There’s a ton of Amish around my parts (western Wisconsin), but I’ve never heard of anything like an Amish mafia.