Nobody cares what you think

That is, if you are an Albany Common Councilman who is upset at a certain reality show whose name rhymes with Tersey Gore:

Amid the crush of end-of-the-year legislation the Albany Common Council will consider Monday night is this resolution offered by 9th Ward Councilman James Sano calling for the cancellation of the MTV’s controversial reality show “Jersey Shore.”

The amount of concern a national cable channel has for the non-binding opinion of the governing body of a city with a population of less than 100,000 is somewhere between “jack” and “shit.” Your petty little resolutions have no power whatsoever, so what’s the point of making them? Oh right – to see your name in the papers.

Sano, an active member of the Italian American Community Center on Washington Avenue Extension, is offering the non-binding measure to voice the council’s displeasure with the show’s perceived negative portrayal of Italian Americans as “ignorant, violent, self-centered and lewd.”

It’s not MTV’s fault that that portrayal is one hundred percent accurate – it’s yours. Work to prove the naysayers wrong, don’t bitch at them for reporting what happens to be the truth.

“They’re preying on the weakest and most pathetic part of our society,” Sano said of the network, “and in this case a degenerative part, a lost part, of our Italian-American youth.”

“Preying”? The idiots on Jersey Shore VOLUNTEERED to be on that show. They CHOSE to prostitute themselves for fleeting national fame – just like you’re prostituting yourself with this proposal. Is there some gene Italians have that makes them more likely to be attention whores?

He questioned why the a show wouldn’t feature young Italian Americans excelling in life — at college, at work or in the military.

Because its MTV, not public access TV. Sleaze sells.

Sano — with his children away at college — said he hadn’t heard of the show until Friday, when he heard from a constituent and then a fellow member of the community center. He finally saw it Sunday and didn’t like what he saw.

“I was watching it, and it seemed like a lot of the usual MTV fair: Let’s watch a bunch of drunken louts go through their night,” Sano said, noting you’ll find good and bad in any ethnic, cultural or religious background. “How many times do we have to see the same garbage? This thing, it’s the same tried and true degenerative formula with them. And this time we have guidos and guidettes.

“You could make it Lake George for God’s sakes,” he added. “You introduce alcohol and you put a bunch of hormone-ravaged people together, stuff’s going to happen.”

You’ll keep seeing the same formula until it stops making money or the apocalypse happens – whichever comes first.

The resolution calls Italian Americans the second-largest ethnic group in the city of Albany and notes that they have “contributed greatly to its success.”

By this logic, I get to blame the Italians for the fact that Albany is an overtaxed, underperforming, ruined little burg. Fuck those greaseballs – we should’ve shipped ‘em all back to the motherland the minute they landed on Ellis Island. (I’m partially of Italian descent, so I get to mock them all I want. Rules of tribalism, my niggas.)

Sano wasn’t at last night’s council caucus when the measure was first addressed, but we’ll reach out to him today.

It appeared as though few, if any, of the lawmakers had seen the show.

Never, ever let the facts get in the way of your moral indignation.

Speaking of guidos, Jerry Jennings looks like he might be giving those lovable retards a run for their money:

And while we’re on the topic of Jersey Shore, I was watching the second and third episodes and I collapsed in hysterics when Snooki described herself as “the Princess of Poughkeepsie.” I’ve been to Poughkeepsie. It sucks. You may as well be the queen of Shit Mountain or the duchess of Piss Falls – though since we’re talking about guidettes, that may well be appropriate.

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