Jon & Kate Plus 8: Monday night on TLC: 2.624 million.
They were down quite a bit from their peak of around 3.5 million.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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I just don't understand why you find the need to criticize everything related to Jon & Kate. What makes you think you know so much about their family, how they live, how they treat their children, etc... Of course their television life has to be enteraining or no one would watch it. Having 8 kids these days is really tough. I have only 2 and find it difficult, but to have 2 & 6 all the same ages, needing the same things at the same time? I am sure anyone in their position would do things to offset expenses. When I watch the show, I see a normal family who is doing their best to care for their children. I don't see Kate playing favorites, I don't see Kate treating Jon any differently than any wife/mother treats her husband. We all go through bad days, and I think it's so unfair for you to act like you are so much better than they are.
How about I say that I don't understand why you find the need to criticize my blog? What makes you think you know so much about what I think and what I feel about a TV show?
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Having 8 kids these days is really tough." I'm sure having 8 kids must be tough, but I won't find that as an excuse for Kate's behavior. Other people have MORE children than Kate and don't act like a shrewish she-witch. I have a friend with ten including quints and she doesn't act like this. The mom on Twins, Twins, and Sextuplets isn't a narcisstic, greedy, screaming, lying beggar.
"I am sure anyone in their position would do things to offset expenses." Sure my friend's husband owns his own company. He has an MBA and a real job. They take no handouts from the community.
"When I watch the show, I see a normal family who is doing their best to care for their children. I don't see Kate playing favorites, I don't see Kate treating Jon any differently than any wife/mother treats her husband."
Then you have my sympathy. That is NOT a normal family and you have either had a very fortunate or unfortunate life to this point not to see the glaring problems in how Kate treats the children.
And if you think how Kate treats Jon is normal, heaven help you NOW! Are you married? Please quickly as your husband what he thinks of it. If you aren't married, ask your father.
"We all go through bad days, and I think it's so unfair for you to act like you are so much better than they are."
Hm, the justification is that Kate always has a bad day when the cameras are there? Somehow I doubt that one. Yes, I can see the flaws in Kate. It doesn't mean I'm perfect, but as I've said before as long as she chooses to advertise herself by being on TV I will feel free to comment on what I see and know. How dare you to tell me I don't have the right to talk and blog about a TV show? Remember Kate CHOSE to do this.
This is not gossiping about the next door neighbors and spreading talk through the neighborhood about something I heard over the back fence. This is something they CHOOSE to broadcast and are being paid to do. So when they get off the cable, I'll treat them like a normal family then and be quiet. Right now they are far, far, far from normal.
Lisa, because it just so danged much fun! Kate puts herself out there and has to know what an easy target she makes of herself. :) You're right it's entertaining and so is this.
Would you sell your soul for money like Kate has?
"I am sure anyone in their position would do things to offset expenses."
A pimp is a pimp. Kate prostitutes her kids for cash. I have 4 children of my own and I have had some pretty lean times. I have never thought about hurting my children the way Kate does by placing them in the public eye in the manner she (and Jon, he shares the blame too) does.
Having 8 kids these days is really tough. I have only 2 and find it difficult, but to have 2 & 6 all the same ages, needing the same things at the same time?
Yes, having EIGHT KIDS certainly is tough, but I am tired of hearing the bitch act like it's her god given right to extra help because of it. SHE chose to have all of those kids. She knew she was having 6 at one time. She could have elected not to have them. She shouldn't act like society owes her. And the topics she talks about are just nonsense. She has a $1.3M home now. How did she get it if she's so much on a budget that she shops at KMart? If everyone who shopped at KMart had a $1.3M home, I might believe the crap she's shoveling to the public.
I dont believe the owner of this blog acts like she's "so much better than they are". She just has a bit more wise point of view than Ramblin', Ragin' Kate.
Oh, please Lisa. Having 8 kids for "normal" people is tough. Not for these two opportunists. They have plenty of help and they get plenty for free. Neither one works.
If you treat your husband the way Kate treats Jon, I feel sorry for you. Sounds like you don't have a very good marriage if you treat each other like dirt and can't respect each other.
Kate does favor Hannah, she even tries to justify it in the book, so nice try defending her. This will come back to bite her down the road.
When I watch the show, I see a normal family who is doing their best to care for their children.
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Are you friggin kidding me? Normal? There isn't anything normal about Jon and Kate and never have been. This couple have always been freeloaders. Would you CHOOSE to have multiples when your husband was UNEMPLOYED and you already had twins. No one in their right mind would. Give me a break. They both have mental issues. And unfortunately, they aren't the greatest parents in the world which we all know will end up hurting the children who are defenseless! :(
"I don't see Kate treating Jon any differently than any wife/mother treats her husband."
Then I really feel sorry for your husband. My husband saw Kate on the Toys R Us episode shrieking like a shrew at Jon clar across the store and he couldn't believe it. I would NEVER talk to him like that.
Kate puts herself out there for all the world to see, so, yeah, we're gonna call her out on her crap. She demoralizes and emasculates her husband, pimps out her kids, and is so full of greed and self-entitlement that she justifies what she does as how every normal person would act. NOT.
Lisa, I hope you take a look at how you treat your husband - he deserves better than that.
I don't know about everyone else, but I enjoy the snark. She's out there, she's a target as is her husband and her kids. Public is public.
Before anyone beheads me, private is also private. How many people can honestly said they haven't snarked on people behind their backs (let alon to their faces!)
We've all done it. Some of us enjoy it. If you don't like it, don't read. Live and let live. Kate snarks on the public by cashing their checks and crying poor.
Duh, some of us don't think that because a woman gives birth to a litter of kids she suddenly becomes an expert on everything from English grammar to meatloaf. I think Kate and hubby Jon are two of the most annoying human beings ever to put themselves on a TV show--pretentious know-nothings who live off their children. For the poor kids, I think every day is a bad day.
"I don't see Kate treating Jon any differently than any wife/mother treats her husband."
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Lisa,
If I treated my husband the way Kate treats Jon he would have me arrested for abuse and divorce me.
Lisa, I'm not publishing your latest diatribe. I'll say this meant as kindly as possible, but please be quiet until you grow up. Some of us have met Kate. Some of us have adult children who are more mature than you are. If you'll please note that a website entitled Kate Is a Shrew is not required to post every opinion that comes along nor is it likely that opinions that Kate is fantastic are going to meet with wide-eyed enthusiasm.
However, consider that childish rants are not going to change the opinion of women who have offspring the same age as Kate and who recognize the differences in how said offspring conduct their lives in a reasonable manner and how Kate frequently acts like a spoiled brat teenager.
Good for you, Pamela.
You have class.
I am a widow of 5 years. It hurts to see Kate treat her husband the way she does. She has NO IDEA how lucky she is to have one. Money sure helps but you can't wrap your arms around and snuggle with a dollar bill. Unless your paying for therapy, a bank account won't listen to you, provide a sounding board, or share the 'agony and ecstasy' of daily life. The little pleasures.
My stint with KON ended with 'Wild Horses'. Her denying her family the simple joy of watching a beautiful sunset on the Outer Banks and Jon not taking a stand and staying did it for me.
When my husband was cleaning out his office (we knew he had not much longer to live) he saw a rainbow and called me at home. Together we watched the rainbow, laughed and cried. Him at the office, me in the backyard at home. It is a simple moment of a beautiful marriage I shall treasure forever. What does KON have? An empty life filled with buckets of bucks but no soul.
Sorry for rambling.
See, it's people like Lisa that worry me. She finds exploiting children and treating a spouse like crap just fine. That mentality is scary. Having seen some of the fan sites for these jackals made me think they were tweens or emotionally disturbed folks and Lisa's post confirmed the disturbed part. Anyone that can applaud Jon's or Kate's behaviors need serious therapy themselves. Ugh, I hope to never met any of their supporters in person. I know boycotting the sponsors has made me feel less icky.
My big concern is knowing the AOG churches are promoting these idiots to their congregations and holding their behavior up as a good thing is sad since too many people follow their pastors like blind mice. Not reducing the sextuplets maybe the only thing they did that I don't find fault with other then that what can they hold up as good Christian behavior?
I'm sorry for your loss my9cats. It sounds like you had a wonderful husband and marriage.
Reading my9cats entry made me tear up a bit. I am so sorry for your loss. I have only been married for just under a year and I would NEVER treat or talk to my husband the way Kate does. My parents have been married for 40 years and have been through so much together- including my Dad's cancer. My mom would never in a million years speak to my dad the way Kate does. I often wonder how her parents treated each other while Kate was growing up and if she saw her mom (or her dad) speaking that way. It just angers me!
As for Lisa's entry- I just have no comment. It angered me so much!
I will say this though- Kate obviously has favorites and anyone watching the show only once could figure out that one!
I have so much trouble with people not being able to see Kate's favoritism. In the NY book episode she saved Hannah's lollipop while tossing the others, Hannah was on her lap in carriage ride, and Hannah was beside her in the bus. At least I think those were all Hannah. How can anyone see that and not really see it for what it is or try to defend it? Kate is just a pitiful excuse for a mother.
Doing parenting mentoring I've seen several like Kate. It usually take videotaping to get them to see it. However, Kate IS taped and has continued it for two years or more of taping. She needs some serious help with someone who won't back down or listen to her lies and nonsense before she messes those poor kids up for life.
Pamela and Erin, thank you for your kind words. What I am trying to say in my bumbling way is the memories that have the most value and I treasure most are the ones that didn't cost a penny.
IMO no marriage is perfect but if a couple has love, affection, and compassion for each other, are able to laugh, cry, communicate and compromise, and above all else respect each other, then the relationship will be strong and able to withstand any hard times that may arise. IMO.
None of this appears in the dreadful duo.
Memories of the heart last.
Manufactured 'memories' do not.
Lisa, no I'm not posting your comments. Not because of fear, but because they add nothing to the board. You just keep saying to leave this family alone. You are missing the point - they keep putting themselves and their children on TV. We object to that along with how they treat the children. There is a TON more to good parenting than keeping the children clean, safe, and fed. That is just the absolute minimum and beginning. Good luck with your young ones. Many of us here have already been down the road of life and are speaking from the experience of rearing our children to adulthood. We've seen the mistakes Kate is making and the results. I'm not in the least jealous of Kate. I have things she will never have such as peace of mind and contentment.
May you be so blessed also.
I am so shocked to see all these things about John & kate she is really mean to john but she isn't all bad she does feed the kids well! I didn't realize Kate was so greedy are they in their new 1.3 million dollar house? Im sure kate could care less what anyone of us say but it os typical most ppl change with fame and money
It is sad to find out someone isn't who you think they are. Don't be too shocked but Kate doesn't really feed her kids well herself. She's seldom home these day. The delivery chef seems to be doing OK most of the time though. Yes, they moved to the big fine house and I'm sure Kate thinks she's arrived. I hope she remembers how fleeting and useless fame can be.
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