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Justice Alito Sounds Off on 'Sopranos'
Justice Alito Sounds Off on 'Sopranos'
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has convicted "The Sopranos" of spreading what he says are stereotypes about Italian-Americans. "You have a trifecta — gangsters, Italian-Americans, New Jersey — wedded in the popular American imagination,"

This is whipping a dead horse. Shouldn't the objections have come while it was still on the air? picked by bevissimo 6 months ago
tags Alito Sopranos New Jersey gangsters Mafia Italian-americans
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 DerAlt1
6 months ago
And this banana is on our Supreme Court for life!

Let's add some more conservatives and we can get future, similar shows banned.

Amazing Alito hasn't complained about "The Wire."
Along with the Sopranos one of the best series ever.
But no Italians.
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 dollylla...
6 months ago
I'm so glad the justices are wasting their time deciding what I should and shouldn't be watching instead of dealing with petty little things like crime and justice.
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 2manyuse...
6 months ago
« dollyllama : I'm so glad the justices are wasting their time deciding what I should and shouldn't be watching instead of dealing with petty little things like crime and justice.
Don't forget such globally important issues as steroid use by athletes and the breaking of league rules (not laws) by the Patriots.
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 theshirt...
6 months ago
Wait, you mean, not all Italians are involved in the mafia? Crap, now I have to reevaluate EVERYTHING.
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 MUPPETMA...
6 months ago
I am offended by Austin Powers as it makes Detectives from the 60s all look like Horny a*****es.

Im offended by Futurama because in the future I don't want robots that can talk.

Im offended by House MD because doctors should always be clean shaven.

Im offended by the Muppet Show because it makes bears out to seem like they have no sense of humor.

Im offended by CSI: Miami because all the police there are very good looking and when I watch the show the hot girls in bikinis make me want to touch my self and that is a sin.
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 ImNotBlu...
6 months ago
From reading the article... it doesn't seem like he was too serious.

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Alito told the gathering of about 100 people that a friend in California once sent him a map of "Sopranos"-related locations. "He wanted me to put down where my house was on the map," Alito said to laughs.
He was talking about all this in New Jersey, from the perspective of an Italian who grew up in NJ.

Yeah, it's goofy, but it's nothing that hasn't been said before... especially by Italian-American groups.

Just imagine if the Soprano's had been a show about African-Americans... all "thugged out," doing drugs, stealing things, and other stereo types. People would have been all kinds of upset, no?

But it's just a show... and IMO, people need to relax.
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 germz
6 months ago
The judge later was found in a pond death appears to be drowning, yet a whole pizza appears to be shoved down his throat
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 DerAlt1
6 months ago
« ImNotBlue:From reading the article... it doesn't seem like he was too serious.

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He was talking about all this in New Jersey, from the perspective of an Italian who grew up in NJ.

Yeah, it's goofy, but it's nothing that hasn't been said before... especially by Italian-American groups.

Just imagine if the Soprano's had been a show about African-Americans... all "thugged out," doing drugs, stealing things, and other stereo types. People would have been all kinds of
upset, no?


But it's just a show... and IMO, people need to relax.
Exactly.

The series "The Wire" does show African Americans "all thugged out, dealing drugs" but nobody seems too upset.
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 clscott6...
6 months ago
« MUPPETMAKER : I am offended by Austin Powers as it makes Detectives from the 60s all look like Horny a*****es.

Im offended by Futurama because in the future I don't want robots that can talk.

Im offended by House MD because doctors should always be clean shaven.

Im offended by the Muppet Show because it makes bears out to seem like they have no sense of humor.

Im offended by CSI: Miami because all the police there are very good looking and when I watch the show the hot girls in bikinis make me want to touch my self and that is a sin.
That was HYSTERICAL!!

But I am mostly offended my CSI: Miami because that silly red head What's His Name can't act his way out of a paper bag and that makes all red-heads look bad.
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