"Real" Housewife, my ass!

        So today on Good  Morning  America  we're treated to an interview with Theresa Guidice about her  recently completed 15 months in prison. "It was Hell," she said with a lowering of the eyes and a sorrowful look worthy of my Bassett hound.   So who is she and why is she news?

       Perhaps the most newsworthy thing about this scofflaw ex-con is that anyone thinks she merits attention. She was elevated to notoriety due to her role in "The Real housewives of New Jersey;" but of course she was neither "real" nor a housewife. A former assistant buyer at Macy's , the show featured her all too frequent temper tantrums as well as her over the top lifestyle, which we now know was funded by over $10 million dollars worth of bank, mail and wire fraud. The worst part of "Hell" as she describes it was having to clean tables three days a week and take cold showers. Based on this tragic narrative, Navy boot camp would have killed her.

        After the  expected denials, she and her even more odious   husband,  Joe, pled guilty to 41 counts related to their  illegally gotten gains. She was sentenced to 15 months in a minimum security facility, Danbury Correctional, the same country club Martha Stewart attended, but allowed to do her stretch before her hubby does his 41 months, in  a military  jail at Fort Dix, NJ.  On release, Joe, who also was convicted of obtaining a driver's license on false pretense (his former DUIs made it hard to do on his own) and failing to pay income tax for several years, will face the possibility of deportation, as he is not a US citizen. Why deportation? Well it seems he (Joe) has been in the US since he was a toddler (well over 40 years), but  just never made it around to becoming an American citizen.  Good! Send him home.  

        It troubles me that anyone with a brain would consider these two pathetic ego driven criminals worthy of either an interview or sympathy. Of course Theresa was also briefly on Celebrity Apprentice. Come to think of it, I guess maybe the same morons who consider the Guidices newsworthy are the same morons who fawn over  the myth, smoke and mirrors that are Donald Trump.