This is why Rome fell

[mreye]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060123/ap_en_...tafuoco_reunion

 

Why do people watch this s***?

 

 

NEW YORK - More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much-older car mechanic and shot his wife in the face, the one-time "Long Island Lolita" and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion.

 

All three have signed on for the appearance, which has yet to be sold to a network, television producer David Krieff told the New York Post for Monday editions.

 

"It's time to just put it behind us," Fisher, now 31, told the newspaper. "We played this all out in a public eye. It'd be interesting to let the public see the healing process at the end. They saw everything else — why not let them see the final product?"

 

Fisher spent seven years in prison.

 

    Joey Buttafuoco, who was jailed for statutory rape following the 1992 shooting, said he planned to ask Fisher to explain her actions.

 

"I've been asked about a million times by Mary Jo, `Why did Amy shoot me?' I was never able to get that answer," said Buttafuoco, now 49.

 

"There's going to be a lot of shocking revelations, and that's why I'm excited to sit down to do this," he said.

 

The Buttafuocos moved to California and divorced in 2003. Mary Jo, who remains partially paralyzed from the shooting, is engaged.

 

Joey Buttafuoco, who has remarried, was sentenced in March 2004 to a year in jail and five years' probation after pleading guilty to felony insurance fraud. In August, he pleaded not guilty to charges that he violated probation by possessing ammunition.

[FlaSoxxJim]

A nation of TV zonbies lapping up sensationalist Long Island Lolita crap my be symptomatic of the problems of the nation. But for a true American analogy to the fatal flaws of empire, look no further than the blatant disregard for checks and balances and the rule of law in this administrations consolidation of power in the "unitary executive."

 

A doctrine that favors and openly pushes for nearly unlimited executive power is, imo, more emblematic of an empire ripe for a fall than the fact that 90% of the public are vapid TV zombies.

 

I hope my comment is not enough to get your thread filibusted, Eye. If so, my apologies.

 

(I like the exclamatory "FILIBUSTED!" btw.)

[mreye]

A nation of TV zonbies lapping up sensationalist Long Island Lolita crap my be symptomatic of the problems of the nation.  But for a true American analogy to the fatal flaws of empire, look no further than the blatant disregard for checks and balances and the rule of law in this administrations consolidation of power in the "unitary executive."

 

A doctrine that favors and openly pushes for nearly unlimited executive power is, imo, more emblematic of an empire ripe for a fall than the fact that 90% of the public are vapid TV zombies.

 

I hope my comment is not enough to get your thread filibusted, Eye.  If so, my apologies.

(I like the exclamatory "FILIBUSTED!" btw.)

 

Before I even read that part I was thinking, "What's he trying to do..."

[juddling]

We were discussing this story at work over our lunch break. It's a sad story made worse by the fact that Joey tried to make himself some sort of celeb out of the fact his underage lover shot his wife. :headshake

 

Let's hope this show remains unsold to all the major networks. Outside of a few friends in Ny...noone cares about this crap anymore.

 

Now if Amy Fisher wants to talk about her lesbian experiences in prison...that's another thing. That might be worth watching!!!!!!

 

 

[Rex Kickass]

Wait, people out here care about this?

[mreye]

Wait, people out here care about this?

I care about people caring!

[Rex Kickass]

Caring is so 2005.

[mreye]

Caring is so 2005.

And so beneath me. I am a Republican.