In article >,
"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:

> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >> In article >,
> >> Goomba38 > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> >>>> "Janet Bostwick" > dropped this
> >>>> : in rec.food.cooking
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I wish I was stupid like she is. . .her drive and ambition have
> >>>>> made her mega bucks.
> >>>>
> >>>> IMO she is just plain lazy and has no culinary talent (not that I do
> >>>> either). IMO she also got where she is by marrying into bucks so
> >>>> she could finance her desire to be in the spotlight. I don't
> >>>> consider that drive and ambition. Martha Stewart has drive and
> >>>> ambition. Rachel Ray (gag) has drive and ambition. IMO SL has
> >>>> nothing. I have to as myself if the wallet hadn't been around,
> >>>> where would she have been?
> >>>>
> >>> I thought all that too until I saw her biography on FoodTV.
> >>
> >> Is that the one that never even mentions the zillionaire she married?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Star Trek 09:
> > O.k., now you guys are getting my dander up. . .are you saying that a
> > woman can't be a success without a rich husband? (Most biographies make
> > little mention of a former spouse.) A mentor may get a woman a start, but
> > in her case, how does that force millions of people to purchase her
> > lifestyle do-dads and magazines? How does that force QVC into taking on a
> > product that has no possibilities for sale? She was a long-time
> > contributor at QVC after being selected during one of their new product
> > searches. How does that force the networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) into
> > featuring her frequently on their programs? SL was around for a long,
> > long time before ever getting on Food TV. From what I've heard, she was
> > approached by Food TV, not the other way around.
> > Janet
> >
>
> What really fried my grits was catching her as I was flipping through the
> channels on the 700 Club (Pat Robertson's venue) telling all and sundry that
> she was 'inspired to write her bio' just for the Christian audience and how
> her shows are 'for Jesus'.........is there nothing this woman won't stop at.

Yes. That was the point that laughing turned to loathing.

> I admit, she is enterprising, to get herself as far as she has with the
> 'talent' she has, but come on.....a show where she puts down more alcohol
> than the Galloping Gourmet did in his sloshed days....and she says she's
> 'doing it for Jesus'..........please. I understand that she is whoring her
> product (her shows, her book, her 'cookbooks', etc) but somewhere underneath
> most whores have some sense of right and wrong, and this is just plain
> wrong.
> -ginny

What she said.

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Star Trek 09:

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