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For those of that'll be staying at home tonight, curled up on the couch with a nice chardonnay and some bonbons, the Must-Cringe TV is Drew Peterson's appearance this evening on Larry King Live. Now, in a perfect world, we'd never know a thing about Mr. Peterson and he'd be going about his normal life as a Bolingbrook cop, and his wife du jour would be alive and well. However, we're not privy to that magical land of rainbows and sunshine.
Rather, this is an attempt to sell America on Drew Peterson: Family Man and Lonely Dad. Peterson has hired a PR agency, presumably to try to better his reputation amongst the many who have already tried, convicted, and executed him in their own minds. And this can't help - just yesterday, Peterson's relative, Walter Martineck testified to a grand jury about moving a "large, sealed rectangular plastic container" that he was afraid was Stacy Peterson's body.
Whether or not tonight's show will make a lick of difference in anyone's brain remains to be seen, but that hasn't stopped us from coming up with our own patent-pending Drew Peterson Drinking Game! After the jump, our rules for imbibing along with Mr. Peterson's appearance. Feel free to add your own!
Here's what we've got so far:
Any mentions of his children or family: 1 drink.
Any unprompted mention of an ex-wife: 1 drink.
At the top of the show, does Drew have a mustache? 1 drink.
Full beard? 2 drinks.
Completely cleanshaven? 3 drinks.
Any inappropriate jokes from Drew: 2 drinks.
Drew laughs: 1 drink.
Anytime Joel Brodsky, Drew's lawyer, interrupts Drew: 1 drink.
Drew saying "I can't answer that." 1 drink.
Any mention of "warm to the touch." 2 drinks.
Any mention of a blue barrel: 1 drink.
Larry King mentioning any of his multiple wives: 3 drinks.
Any caller from a Stacy or Kathleen Savio family member taking on Drew: Waterfall for the length of the call.
Drew admitting any guilt on national television: Chug. Hell, bathe in it.
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"Now, in a perfect world, we'd never know a thing about Mr. Peterson and he'd be going about his normal life as a Bolingbrook cop, and his wife du jour would be alive and well."
So, on one hand, you lament how this sleazy story has soaked into the national media conversation, or whatever one might call it.
Yet, on the other hand, you add to the circus in your own tiny way by offering ideas for a drinking game.
Uh, OK.
You can't have it both ways.
The talk of that blue container is not credible evidence. The relative who helped move it is psychotic, literally tried to kill themselves. Good luck in front of a jury.
this guy is such a media whore it's beyond belief
i believe he tried to kill himself after helping peterson because he was so riddled with guilt. that would make his story LESS believable?
I think he just did?
I'd argue that every item in that drinking game is a commentary on the mountain of suspicion around this guy and the way the media cycle is used in stories like this. And that's totally fair game.
I concur, Mr. Smith.
To add to the game, one sip for everytime he mentions a past wife's "cycle".
I wish I had it in me to prevent myself from even bringing that up.
maybe i'm hypocritical for being prudish over this, since i talk like a sailor and am not very squeamish about most things, but i gotta say i find a drinking game about this pretty gross.
yeah, yeah, it's a joke. it's funny. it's mocking how fucked up this guy is. i get it. but, the thing is, i'm terrified that at the end of the day, this guy is going to O.J. his way out of this and he's going to get off. he's going to walk away having murdered someone (someones?) nearly in the public eye, laughing his way all the way to a home in florida. and there's absolutely *nothing* funny about that.
I am just saying that "attempting suicide" makes for a shaky witness. I wouldn't trust his sense of recall etc etc.
When Drew is on TV shows like this, does he get paid?
"I'd argue that every item in that drinking game is a commentary on the mountain of suspicion around this guy and the way the media cycle is used in stories like this. And that's totally fair game."
Sorry, Mr Smith. I failed to realized the drinking game was actually biting social commentary. Silly me.
I guess my future games of beer pong really can have deep meaning from now on.
I'm begining to think drew is baiting the states attorney to indict him. He is confident in his planning and execution of his plan.(Iknow bad choice of words). Drew feels he has a winning hand at the moment so he wants to force the state into a premature indictment so he can beat the criminal case and then never have to worry about the body being found. Maybe even write a if I did do it heres how book like OJ. Or hes just crazystupid and getting terrible advice from his attorney.
Woops. You forgot to mention 2 drinks for everytime he mentions "all the young anonymous girls" are seeking him out.
You forgot to mention 2 drinks for everytime he mentions "She was like that" in reference to any questions as to why the police always seems to get involved in his "affairs".
You forgot to mention 2 drinks for everytime his lawyer brings up how the Stacy Peterson Fund should be looking for a live body. Scratch that. Make it 1 drink as I'm sure you're going to hear it at least 6 times.
You forgot to mention 2 drinks for everytime they mention Stacy took off with another man to Thailand, without her passport, without knowledge of the language. Talk about standing out like a tourist? LOL. Good gracious. They could have at least came up with England or France or something along that line. But Thailand?
Also, tell me who gets a breast job done (after giving birth to two children)...and goes off "with another man" and leaves every single one of their $48.00 Victoria Secret bra's at home? Helloooooooooooooo????
I would end this by saying let's offer a drink for everytime that Drew brings up his "maniacal malicious" neighbor, Sharon...you know, the one that sat every morning with Stacy and her children? The one that was not only a best friend but like a "replacement mom" ? Apparently, "distraught" is just not a word in Drew's vocabulary. That is a better way to describe Sharon.
And let's not forget, toast one for how many times Drew will try and portray Stacy as a cookie cutter mold of her own biological mom. Forget that her mom had very serious mental issues, along with drug problems....and was not in her life as Stacy was with her own children, family and friends.
Finally...let's change the drink to plain ol' cookies. Rather everyone gain 12lbs before the show is over as opposed to severe alcohol intoxication...or fluid intoxication. Stick with cookies. I think I'll grab my bag of oreo's and set em out now!
No problem, dude. That's what I'm here for.
"No problem, dude. That's what I'm here for."
Don't sell yourself short. You are also good with pop culture references and ripping off work from Chicago magazine for some easy PR for ToC. And creative use of the word douche (which, of course, I am, but that's another issue).
Every time they show a picture of Stacy and Larry King says "I'd hit that" you have to drink until he looks attractive enough to make sweet love to.
Hey, if you're giving odds that Drew might confess then we have to consider any possibility.
Stop it, you are making me blush...
Confess? LOL. NEVER HAPPEN. I'm waiting for him to get indicted on Kathleen Savio's death and it wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't try and blame Stacy for killing her. He just comes across as that "kind of guy". Just my opinion of course.
Spay1, you said >>>>
There is a BIG difference between psychotic and history of depression. He indeed would make it as a credible witness unless he is so sedated that he cannot testify and that is not what his condition reflects. Let's also not forget, he is not the ONLY one to witness a large blue barrel in the garage and he is not the only one who witnessed Drew and "another man" (who invariably ended up being Thomas Morphey) carrying that blue tote/barrel to the SUV. At the same time, there is also evidence to show that Drew purchased items that came in blue barrels as well as blue totes from the cable company. That "blue barrel" will surely be credible. Just wait and see:)
1. VOID HIS FOID..anyone suspected of Murder should not be allowed to carry weapons {let alone the "folding=gun" & others that he concealed from the police!!!}{AND ADMITTED ON TV TO DOING THIS!!!}
2. Investigate his allegations that Stacy was under pysciatric help???
3. It has become apparent that the Bolingbrook Police have chosen NOT to support "DREWPY!"...WOT A "BENT" COP he was!!!
4. The time has come..AMERICA..to convict this serial Murderer & show the world that Joel Brodsky {like all lawyers} are only in it for the money...HURRY UP...DP SHOULD BE CONVICTED!!!
Drew sure does issue some cake-easy challenges! This took all of 20 minutes to find!
"I kind of challenge anybody out there to find anybody that has ever seen me mad," Drew Peterson said on King's show. "If I get involved in a domestic situation where I'm physical with my wife, I'll lose my job -- and I wouldn't never even care to come close to risking that," Peterson said.
November 16, 2007 : But in the first interview granted by one of his ex-wives since Stacy's disappearance, Vicki Connolly, 48, said Thursday that during their marriage an increasingly controlling Peterson told her he could kill her and make it look like an accident. While she couldn't believe he would ever do it, something prompted her to confide in Bolingbrook police officers who she considered friends. "So they would know he said these things to me," she said.
She said Peterson would hit her but not hard enough to go to the hospital, and not often enough for her to expect it. It made it worse, she said, that she never knew it was coming. "It was mind games; it was head games," she said. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson_16_nov16,0,5607495.story
November 21, 2007 Kyle Piry, previous fiancé: After she left Peterson and returned the engagement ring, she said he harassed, stalked and arrested her on false charges and threw her against a coffee table. "After I broke up with him I went to his house to get some things. He started calling me names and pushed me over a coffee table. He sat on me and straddled me with legs, yelling… No one had ever done anything like that to me and I didn't know what to do," she said. Piry said she called the police, but friends of Peterson in the department "swept it away." http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3898108&page=1
Feb 23, 2008 Documents released by Savio's family show she had accused Peterson of once stealing her car while she was in church with one of her children. She also, according to one letter the family said was sent to the Will County State's Attorney's office in November 2002, accused Peterson of beating her a number of times so severely she ``ended up in the emergency room.'' And, according to the letter, she described one incident in which she believed he would kill her: ``He pulled out his knife, that he kept around his leg and brought it to my neck. http://www.wbbm780.com/Peterson-s-2nd-Wife:-He-Abused-Me/1218904
March 25, 2008 At the same time, his account of what happened remains what it has always been: She left him for another man and still is alive. "I'm very angry, very angry," he said. He said he's hired private investigators to look for her, but he doesn't elaborate. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/858839,6_1_NA25_STATE1_S1.article
Apr 12, 2008 Cassandra Cales accepted that challenge today. "I have seen him, personally, throw my sister across the room," she said. And Cales says just last week the former police sergeant unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against her after she spoke with Stacy's young son outside the home. "He was red and he was screaming," Cales said. "If that's not mad, I don't know what is." http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/stacy.peterson.drew.2.698407.html