With the semi-success of last weeks
"Joelgate" this week I thought I would discuss the mother of all
Gosselin GATES "
Gumgate". I got into it a bit on my first day of blogging
HERE. This particular "Gate" encompasses so many more things than the others. This is the blog that sent Julie (Jodie
Kreider's sister) to write her infamous blog, where she basically blasted the
Gosselins over having the right to say "no more gum". For me, though I know for a sister I would practically do anything, I draw the line when it comes to slander. Her blog in thanks to
GWOP became a overnight sensation not based on accuracy, but
on malicious intent. What started out as what people thought was a woman intent on helping the kids, became nothing more than a nasty woman looking for an
Internet validation fix. I remember saying to myself, "give it time" and like everything else, finally fizzled. Because over time, it was just her opinions and not all facts, and when people saw that the
juicy gossip was gone, they moved on.
I need to step back a bit and talk about the episode itself.
You can see it HERE. It started out as on of the individual "special days" episode, this time for Mady. Now at the time these were done Jodi
happily volunteered to watch the kids for a few of these days. She said several times that she enjoys having them and with Kate in a bind, she obliged. During that outing she gave the kids balls of gum asking them if they had permission. yeah, as a huge choking
hazard I am totally with Kate on this one.
Now how Kate reacts is kind of sticky (no pun intended) and how people feel about it
varies in several ways. Either they agree, hate Kate and disagree
just because they dislike Kate, or basically just disagree with how she handled it. Knowing how I too have flown of the handle every once in a while depending on my day I
side with Kate. If you watch it over, I feel that Kate was rational and calm while talking
to Jodi
about it, and I would have done the same. But you see the other half as a viewer, the part were not really supposed
to see, and
that's Kate yelling at Collin about his
blankie being thrown out. And while I
don't agree how she handled that part, were not aware of the exhaustion of the day and the mood she was in. Give her a break. Now the fact that Julie wrote PAGES of her feelings
about this on her blog, it goes
to show you how people feel about certain situations. She blew it out of proportion because she had a captive audience with the haters over at
GWOP. They welcomed her with open arms, saw the
proverbial "cash cow" and ran with it. It became a huge hate fest, with Jodi doing nothing. This is how she lost me in terms of loving her. She basically sealed her fate with her sister-in-law by allowing her sister
to trash the family online.
The nail in the coffin was when Jodi got on her sisters blog and posted a video. The snide snark look on her sisters face said it all. "I'm doing this for
Internet fame" (so to speak) and nothing more.
Alot of
bloggers cried foul. It was too much and poor Jodi lost all her
credibility.
Eventually once the
Gosselins put the nightmare behind them and moved far away from the nasty nosy neighbors, Jodi begged Julie
to stop. She had to remove all the nasty posts. Julie even as of last week, is STILL blogging on
GWOP. She won't let it lie, or loose her last bit of 15 seconds of fame.
So because of Julie, Jodi and Kate may never be able to recover. They had a shot before the blog. I wished and prayed they could work it out, but if YOU were Kate, would you forgive? Thanks
to Julie is was able
to become this HUGE thing that was no big deal and happens
alot in houses every day including my own. Shame on Julie for spilling your families private business to a world of jealous haters. Shame on Jodi for letting it get that far. Do you really want
to loose seeing the kids and having your family grow up with theirs? And Kate, could you or would you forgive? I did
not think that Kate did the right thing that day, but I sure don;t feel she should have been crucified for it......
Hello Gosselin fans! Last night was the big marathon and I kept one eye open on the couch for my Disney episode. Even though it was 10pm I was exhausted. I watched only bits of each episode. (Uhh I see them ALL the time!) But I literally woke up when I saw the new commercial.. "Guess what, were moving!" squeals Kate. Yep, it looks like we just found out what the "surprise" in next weeks episode "Soup And Surprise" is! Did anyone see it? You also have to wonder how long ago this episode actually took place, as it appears they have been in their new house for some time now. (I only mention this because so many trolls comment like this family is on TV non-stop. When in fact that really isn't the case.) Do you think they got to keep the furniture? (lol)
