I Don't Usually Watch Oprah......

[lumpy]

Did anyone else see the Oprah show tonight with the lady who shot her husband?

[beedees]

  Oprah give her a medal or something?

[Spike]

I Don't Usually Watch Oprah......

Stop right there and turn in your man card...

[Mike DC]

 
My brother met Oprah for a minute or two last month when his employer (a production company) was shooting some footage for her show.  He said it was absolutely surreal to be looking at her walking out of the green room in person, and then 15 seconds later she walks back into view on the television monitor on the shelf.


And apparently all the girls who work there at that studio for the Oprah show are total hotties.

 

[BigBlackDodge]

I Don't Usually Watch Oprah......

Stop right there and turn in your man card...

It's not a card that must be turned in....................


BBD

[lumpy]

Hey, I guess I had that coming!! Anyway, you guys know the story of that lady that shot her preacher husband in the back of the head with the shotgun? Turns out the guy just wanted the house clean and to have sex with his wife, so she shot him in the head. WTF?

[Mean 318]

I saw it on Today and she is a b***h! there is a place in hell just for her!

[Charger_Fan]

I Don't Usually Watch Oprah......

Stop right there and turn in your man card...

[Orange_Crush]

Hey, I guess I had that coming!! Anyway, you guys know the story of that lady that shot her preacher husband in the back of the head with the shotgun? Turns out the guy just wanted the house clean and to have sex with his wife, so she shot him in the head. WTF?

My wife's aunt's first husband was like that.  Nicest guy in the world when she married her...then got verbally abusive with her...then, after a couple of years, he started slapping her around.  She put up with it for a few years.  The beatings got worse and worse.  Finally, she waited for him with a shotgun, he opened the front door and she ventilated him.  She was acquitted.  In Texas of all places...in 1962!

Good riddance to bad rubbish as far as I'm concerned.

[Mean 318]

Hey, I guess I had that coming!! Anyway, you guys know the story of that lady that shot her preacher husband in the back of the head with the shotgun? Turns out the guy just wanted the house clean and to have sex with his wife, so she shot him in the head. WTF?

My wife's aunt's first husband was like that.  Nicest guy in the world when she married her...then got verbally abusive with her...then, after a couple of years, he started slapping her around.  She put up with it for a few years.  The beatings got worse and worse.  Finally, she waited for him with a shotgun, he opened the front door and she ventilated him.  She was acquitted.  In Texas of all places...in 1962!

Good riddance to bad rubbish as far as I'm concerned.

I can understand that to a point, but this chick was so full of it she had to plug her ears to keep it all in!

[Orange_Crush]

Hey, I guess I had that coming!! Anyway, you guys know the story of that lady that shot her preacher husband in the back of the head with the shotgun? Turns out the guy just wanted the house clean and to have sex with his wife, so she shot him in the head. WTF?

My wife's aunt's first husband was like that.  Nicest guy in the world when she married her...then got verbally abusive with her...then, after a couple of years, he started slapping her around.  She put up with it for a few years.  The beatings got worse and worse.  Finally, she waited for him with a shotgun, he opened the front door and she ventilated him.  She was acquitted.  In Texas of all places...in 1962!

Good riddance to bad rubbish as far as I'm concerned.

I can understand that to a point, but this chick was so full of it she had to plug her ears to keep it all in!

I didn't watch the interview.  I have done some reading on the case.  You never know what goes on behind closed doors.  I'm not saying she was justified...there are a lot of crazy women out there.

[Mean 318]

I know what you are saying! I wasn't there so I cant get too outspoken. Wife beaters piss me off too

[lumpy]

 I don't think it had anything to do with him beating her. I'm not even sure if he even did lay a hand on her. She said he was rude and degrading and was never satisfied and wanted nontraditional sex.  You really had to see the interveiw. I haven't been able to find it on the web. He was only 31 years old, and I think they had 2 or 3 little kids, pretty sad story. I think it gives reason for any unhappy wife out there to just go ahead and off their husband just because they are not happy?? I'm glad I don't have a gun in my house !!

[Orange_Crush]

I never said it did (the transcript of the interview is on the Oprah winfrey website). 

For reasons I won't go into here, I have done a lot of research into battered women (though I prefer eating mine plain kidding) and 9 times out of ten it starts out like what she describes.  Nice charming guy prone to fits of rage and verbal abuse and then progresses to physical abuse.  Many times, this is also accompanied by "forced" sexual situations, etc.   Its a pattern that fits.  Does this justify her blowing him away?  Probably not...but you have to remember that, for whatever reason...threats of physical retribution, low self esteem from constant verbal "beatdowns," Monetary situation, fear of being looked down on,  the women often feel trapped anbd can't "just leave."  As I said before, this doesn't mean that I believe her 100%...I'm just giving you an insight.

The law would probably not have been so lenient with her had this not fit into a pattern.