It wasn't as if talk radio wasn't talking about her anyway... after precluding, of course, she'd be convicted and sent up the river, if not fried for murdering her darling baby girl, Caylee.
Casey Anthony was, after all, a slutty, drunken, murderous sociopath. Her tears were reptilian, and her every move and word calculated... she had a tattoo. It was a "slam dunk," she was guilty and deserved even worse than the state could give her, which thank god, was death.
But boyo: when jurors came up with a verdict to aquit after considering such inconvenient details as the evidence "n" stuff like "reasonable doubt," talk radio and tabloid teevee REALLY got a chance to kick off the summer doldrums.
It's a coup for broadcasting in the dog days. And who's giving a big whoop about the scolding from Anthony attorney Cheney Mason? Nobody, that's who:
Well, I hope that this is a lesson to those of you have indulged in media assassination for three years. Bias, and prejudice, and incompetent talking heads saying what would be and how to be. I'm disgusted by some of the lawyers that have done this.
And I can tell you that my colleagues from coast-to-coast and border to border have condemned the whole process of lawyers getting on television and talking about cases that they don't know a damn thing about and don't have the experience to back up their words or the law to do it. Now, you learned a lesson.
Maybe the media whoring attorneys have learned a lesson, (though we doubt it) but yesterday's cold water splash of conscience won't stop talk hosts from shooting the moon with this story for weeks: denouncing trial attorneys, and questioning the very rights of such obviously guilty homocidal sluts like Casey Anthony to have representation, especially if it costs the taxpayers money. The jurors must have been some of them famous Orlando libruls...
This wasn't -- from a journalistic point of view, Bill, this was not an important story. It wasn't about race. It wasn't about the clash of class in this country. It wasn't even about fame. And yet we were drawn to it, because in the United States we crave -- and I mean crave -- entertainment.
And Goldberg, Billo, and their boss Rupert Murdoch (who knows a thing or two about tabloid news) are there not to satisfy the craving, but rather to inspire more anger and appetite.
Because it isn't about justice, or the poor dead Caylee: it's about money. And there's nothing like a hot, homocidal slut given to bitchy behavior to boost the slagging numbers.
the case was never a slamdunk. Shouting, shameless hag and evil witch Nancy Grace tried to pretend it was a slamdunk, but former judges and veteran prosecutors had been predicitng she could very well walk, right on her show. Very difficult to prove a "bare bones" case. The best thing about the verdict is the public humiliation of Nancy Grace. As for the "snake in human sin", the sociopath Casey Anthony, just ask the other sociopath who got away with murder O.J. Simpson whether life is always good after acquittal. She will end badly, just like O.J. stay tuned= this isn't over yet.
Posted by: Dr. McCormick | July 06, 2011 at 09:17 AM
I've thought as myself somewhat "in touch" with whats going on in the news. (Is using two prepositions side by side proper?) And yet, until a few days ago this whole Casey thing slipped right through my radar. Well, after all, its not like it affected my life at all. So why should I have cared?
I guess I should care in knowing that if something happens to me there is at least a chance I might get to be judged by my peers and not a bunch of fluff head media sluts.
Now I have no idea at all what really happened here. This gal doesn't seem like anyone I would care to sit down with for an afternoon of chit-chat. Even so I don't like seeing anyone convicted by a boat load of circumstantial evidence.
But I do so enjoy watching the media look stupid. Kind of like a bunch of sports commentators tell me who is going to win the big game only to find themselves look foolish. Don't like fluffheads telling me how view anything.
So I guess we could deplore the state of journalism today. But since when has journalism ever been objective? Journalists have always treated the rest of us as idiots who need to have our minds enlightened by them.
Me, I still like rabbits.
Posted by: Ryder | July 06, 2011 at 09:19 AM
Just further proof that facts get in the way of talk radio.
Posted by: JDB | July 06, 2011 at 09:33 AM
Dr. McCormick have you by any chance run into Tom008?
He, too hates Nancy Grace. Bwahahahah
Posted by: Sarah | July 06, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Conspicuously missing in the wall-to-wall coverage of this is a reason, any reason, a single solitary reason why I should care about it.
Posted by: Pete | July 06, 2011 at 02:34 PM
1. Who is Casey Anthony?
2. Who is Nancy Grace?
3. Who cares?
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Posted by: Fred | July 06, 2011 at 07:25 PM
Backyard gossip has become the new "news." Of course they haven't "learned a lesson." Gossip is what they want Americans talking and thinking about. Otherwise Americans might actually get off their booties and find out what's going on in the world and in their own country that truly matters. God forbid that should happen.
Posted by: joanie | July 06, 2011 at 07:45 PM
BTWl journalists are supposed to enlighten us. It used to be their job. The Fourth Estate and all . . . get it?
Posted by: joanie | July 06, 2011 at 07:47 PM
Thank you..this whole thing has been weird. It skipped over my radar too for the most part, but i had heard enough that my jaw dropped in surprise...but this is a good description of how I feel about this whole mess.
Posted by: sparky | July 06, 2011 at 08:42 PM
People should be reading
Posted by: Coiler | July 06, 2011 at 08:55 PM
Good one, Coiler. Here's another from the Onion.
American Dream Declared Dead As Final Believer Gives Up
The last vestige of the American Dream slipped away as a Pennington, IL resident quietly laid aside his hope of owning a bar & grill.
Posted by: joanie | July 06, 2011 at 09:34 PM
And, of course, the sequel: sex with a celebrity
Posted by: joanie | July 06, 2011 at 09:38 PM
Thank you for posting the truth, Joanie. It's gossip. Nothing more. We've been given such power to influence so many people and we are throwing it all away.
Posted by: yaknewit | July 06, 2011 at 10:01 PM
Dunno, don't care, if she's guilty or innocent, I do know she's hot, and I'd like to fuck her. That probably won't happen, so I'd like to see more of her on the TV machine and talk about her slutty ways on the radio.
Posted by: I yamma man | July 06, 2011 at 10:27 PM
Ahhh...you'll shoot your eye out.
Posted by: Slagus | July 07, 2011 at 12:38 AM
while joanie and coils are reading the 'onion' for news, here is a great story.
one wonders if some of the teachers participating in this cheating scandal also chastised students for cheating in class.
hmm, maybe not so much...
Atlanta Journal Constitution finds scandal
Posted by: Puget Sound Blathers | July 07, 2011 at 07:10 AM
No kidding PS isn't that neat, test score changing parties, yeah that's what we need in our schools. And all about preserving one's position, bonuses, salaries and accepting award and recognition for faked accomplishment. Hope we've got some heavier checks and balances procedures in place in this state to prevent this.
Posted by: StarTheWonderDog | July 07, 2011 at 08:47 AM
Suddenly the term Faux News seems extraordinarily apropos!
Posted by: Sarah | July 07, 2011 at 09:42 AM
Puget Sound always manages to trivialize the thread.
Dr. Brezinski says it well in his remarks about a "just society:" "US has greatest social disparity in the world."
Civil unrest is inevitable. Why is it always a Democrat that talks like this?
Perhaps some of these absent rightwingers have something to say about this instead of gossiping about educators who cheat here and there. Sort of Arthur Andersen isn't it?
Posted by: joanie | July 07, 2011 at 10:20 AM
BTWl journalists are supposed to enlighten us. It used to be their job. The Fourth Estate and all . . . get it?
Posted by: joanie | July 06, 2011 at 07:47 PM
aND school teachers use to be teachers knot cheaters.
JOanie-anus get your own house in order. Stop the cheating and stop the didling of the school kids.
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HARd to type with these damn paws. oops ---master calling me out to run on the burke gilman. he calls it EZ show prep when it will be wall to wall casey anthony outrage.
Posted by: star monson | July 07, 2011 at 11:23 AM
I listen to a ton of talk radio but do not watch cable tv news, nor do I read people or nat'l enquirer. Until the verdict came in, I had scarcely heard of Casey Anthoney.
OP is confused.
Posted by: tom magnum | July 08, 2011 at 03:07 AM
she has been spotted here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CP9oruCsho
Posted by: Chris Kidd | July 20, 2011 at 07:33 PM