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| Mondo de la Vega - A ticking time bomb? |
If you’re like me, you’re scared of Mondo. He’s the shady ex-con who has somehow made his way onto The Jim Bakker Show, and he now represents Jim’s foodbucket connection to the Latino market.
I first saw Mondo on The Jim Bakker Show a couple years ago when he was welcomed on as a friend of Jim’s. Mondo told some outlandish story about performing miracles over in Europe somewhere. I don’t remember all the specifics, but I do recall that Mondo claimed the television media were present to witness the spectacle and that he almost got into a fistfight with a bunch of European bikers at the end. (For the record, I can find no evidence of Miracle Mondo in any European media sources). The whole story was very strange, and frankly it only served to confirm (to me at least) that Mondo de la Vega is a lunatic, and a dangerous one at that.
When Mondo speaks, he is calculating and premeditated. Mondo shows no emotion, because Mondo feels no emotion. His cold, steely eyes remain expressionless as he speaks, and his demeanor never changes. I think Jim feels he can control Mondo by relating to him as a former prison inmate, but nobody controls Mondo but Mondo. Jim would have a better chance at taming a wild African lion than taming a wild Mondo de la Vega.
What’s most ironic (and scary) about Mondo-the-reformed-gangster is that I don't think he’s even reformed: his twitter account is @Mondo18st (as in 18th Street Gang). His life of crime is not in the rearview mirror, it’s riding shotgun down the boulevard with him. Or so it seems, why else would he still keep a connection to his 'old' gangster life? I hear Osama bin Laden is still alive but has renounced terrorism...follow his tweet @binLadenAlQaeda. See what I mean?
Now keep in mind that Mondo is married to a daughter of one of the Lennon Sisters. I cannot fathom how that marriage was ever allowed to proceed, but proceed it did. Mondo may have been a Latin novelty for them Ozark folks at first, but now he’s family. I can’t imagine anyone in that entire family is comfortable being alone with the guy...Hell, I’m hundreds of miles away in Orlando, Florida, and I’m not even comfortable watching him on tv. (Note: I’m not actually in Orlando, but I want to keep Mondo and any potential assassins off my tail.)
Mondo’s wife is probably a lovely girl, and since she’s not a willful part of The Jim Bakker Show I’ll let her be. But I fear for her safety because Mondo is a ticking time bomb. We’ve already seen Happy Mondo during weddings and baby births; that Mondo is an ice-cold, passionless sub-human. I wonder, does anyone know what Angry Mondo looks like?