Casey Anthony Trial

[IrishJedi]

Yep: https://articles.baltimoresun.com/2..._nancy-grace-casey-anthony-trial-defense-team

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

I loved the quote on Nancy Grace last night. . .

"Florida picked the last 12 people who still think the world is flat."

Totally true. _____ is guilty as a crack addict running from the cops.

 

[devilof76]

Prove it.

 

[BadMoon]

I loved the quote on Nancy Grace last night. . .

"Florida picked the last 12 people who still think the world is flat."

Totally true. _____ is guilty as a crack addict running from the cops.

I will first say, I'm sure this whole family had something to do with this childs death. They are all a bunch of liars.

That said, the prosecution botched this. If anyone wants to be upset at this point look to them. They had no murder weapon, no DNA evidence, no cause of death, nothing but circumstantional claims.

Like it or not to convict someone of 1st degree murder they have to prove a person is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. The jury in no way could do that. It sucks, but they made the right call IMO.

 

[IrishJedi]

I loved the quote on Nancy Grace last night. . .

"Florida picked the last 12 people who still think the world is flat."

Actually, it's that kind of hyperbolized righteous indignation that makes people sound very unintelligent.

Emotions are irrational, and some folks (like that dingbat) are reacting 100% emotionally instead of sensibly. Chill pills need to be had.

 

[fosing]

TMZ is reporting that the porno companies are already banging down her door. Tot Mom? Insert a letter in the Tot and you have the perfect porno name!

 

[hairlesswookiee]

TMZ is reporting that the porno companies are already banging down her door. Tot Mom? Insert a letter in the Tot and you have the perfect porno name!

I'd probably end up watching it too.

 

[BuffyGirl]

If she truly is guilty (and yes, I believe she is) then her day of judgement hasn't ended. It's still to come.

 

[fosing]

I'd probably end up watching it too.

...and wont be found guilty for murdering ewoks.

 

[fosing]

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let nick cage help you out react to casey's verdict.

 

[IrishJedi]

Nailed it:

How Nancy Grace has reinvented journalism’s ‘Sob Sister’

by Roy Peter Clark
Published July 6, 2011 12:14 pm

I just had a meme dream.

As I watched angry citizens outside an Orlando courthouse outraged at the acquittal of Casey Anthony, I could not help but remember the scene from the 1931 film “Frankenstein,” in which townspeople light their torches in the town square and set off to track down the monster.

These torchbearers don’t take to the hills on their own. They are directed by the invective of a hammy burgomaster, who, if he wore a blond wig, would look more than a little like Nancy Grace.

Professional vigilante and mawkish sentimentalist, Nancy is full of something, but it’s not grace. While accusing other lawyers of avarice and opportunism, she makes her own fortune by angry denunciations of defense efforts, almost always accompanied by lachrymose attention to the plight of the victim, especially if she is white, female, pretty — and missing.

Grace is nothing new in American culture. She is a “sob sister,” a stock figure that is more than a century old and is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “a journalist, especially a woman, employed as a writer or an editor of sob stories.”

A sob story is a form of emotional pornography, “a tale of personal hardship or misfortune intended to arouse pity.” The audience for the sob story has traditionally been female, and Grace’s callers are mostly women who tend to genuflect at her altar before asking a question. They call her Nancy; she calls them “dear.”

Just as there was a race difference in response to the verdict in the trial of O.J. Simpson, I have sensed something of a gender difference in the response to this trial and verdict. It appears as if many women (and some men, of course) anticipated a first degree murder conviction, and seemed bitterly disappointed with the verdict.

What to make of this? On the “Today” show this morning, women experts from law, psychology, and the media seemed to agree that a predictable antipathy toward Casey Anthony has come from mothers, who express the standard sentiment (another meme) that a mother must do everything in her power to protect her child.

They also recognized the dark side of this sentiment, the fear and guilt that so many mothers feel about their own anger at their children, or those moments when they dreamed of being unburdened of the responsibilities of motherhood.

Where is Carol Gilligan when we need her? According to her famous feminist reinterpretation of theories of moral justice, men are more likely to be governed in their judgments by rules, while women are more likely to defend relationships as central to the moral law.

I have lost count of the women who preceded their opinions of Casey Anthony with something like, “As a mother, I feel that she should have protected that baby, not killed her.”

But let’s hold that noble standard against another set of complex realities in America, the tension between the puritanical and the libertine. This tension existed before the founding of America, of course, expressed most famously in the Greek tragedy of Medea, who slaughters her children because of her husband’s infidelity.

The American equivalent is the Salem Witch Trials. One poor woman named Sarah Good was accused of witchcraft for “rejecting the puritanical expectations of self-control and discipline.” This was evident when she chose to “scorn children instead of leading them toward the path of salvation.”

Another woman was accused of having sex with a demon, and I am reminded that Nancy Grace punctuated her tirade after the verdict with the comment that “The Devil is dancing.”

According to the Wikipedia account, the American witch trial sensibility is marked by “moral panic, mass hysteria, and lynching.” Hysteria is a particularly interesting word in this context because it comes from the Latin word hyster, which means “womb.”

Nancy Grace: former prosecutor, hanging judge in the land of the hanging chad, witch hunter, sob sister, meme maker.

Rather than fan the flames of moral outrage, Nancy Grace and her minions should be reminding citizens of why they should respect — rather than revile — the American system of justice.

Case in point, there is a young American woman — about the same age as Casey Anthony — who is unjustly imprisoned in Italy at this very moment. Her name is Amanda Knox. A corrupt legal system wants her to spend the rest of her life in jail for a murder she most likely did not commit. And now, here in America, we have another young woman who in our legal system has been acquitted of a heinous crime a lot of us think she probably did commit. If you were accused of a crime, which country would you rather live in?

There is one more case to be made here. That Nancy Grace is in some measure responsible for the acquittal she so despises. How can that be? Who is most responsible over the last three years of turning Casey Anthony (the “Tot Mom”) into a celebrity? How has she gained one name status — Casey. Who has essentially made Casey the star of a long-running reality show? She may not be OJ Simpson or Robert Blake, but she has become no less a media celebrity.

How hard is it to convict a celebrity of murder? The record, Nancy, speaks for itself.

 

[Deckard]

I say we make Nancy Grace and Casey Anthony fight to the death in a wrestling ring like Escape from New York. Winner gets to be Secretary of State brought to you by Carl's Jr.

 

[The Mike]

I find Nancy Grace utterly hilarious and what is funnier is that she doesn't intend to be. The dramatics, the complete _____y attitude, the way she goes off at the snap of a finger to anyone who doesn't agree with her. That kind of hyperbole reminds me of Stephen Colbert although he is doing it for laughs and she takes herself seriously. I will admit I don't watch the show regularly but if I'm up late at night doing this or that I will actually leave her program on and laugh....

I will say this, she was relatively calm although the whole "Devil is dancing" must have been said at least 30 times but it was her panel of "experts" that was literally going for Emmy awards last night especially the redhead with the glasses who made me want to kick puppies after 5 seconds.

It was funny though to see her take every single example and turn it right around to a story about herself.

More on the porn offers:

Casey Anthony, whose guilt I’ve proven beyond a shadow of a doubt here, is already receiving the inevitable porn offers literally everyone saw coming because if you’re going to murder your kid and get away with it in this country, the least you can do is have sex on camera or you really are a ******* monster. TMZ reports:

Hours after she was found not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Tuesday, Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch called up Casey’s lawyer, Jose Baez, to discuss the possibility of a business relationship.
Hirsch tells TMZ … “Whether you agree with the verdict or not, Casey will want to move forward with her life and has a right to make a living. It’s not going to be easy for her and we believe we can help her make the transition into a new life.”

 

[Darth Waller]

Whether you agree with the verdict or not, Casey will want to move forward with her life and has a right to make a living. It’s not going to be easy for her and we believe we can help her make the transition into a new life.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

what life

she's gonna get hounded for the rest of it

 

[BadMoon]

what life

she's gonna get hounded for the rest of it

She will likely become a millionaire very quickly and then she can do whatever she wants. I doubt she will care about the occassional hounding once it's all said and done.

 

[Darth Waller]

what life

she's gonna get hounded for the rest of it

Her "Beautiful Life" of course.

 

[pixletwin]

She will likely become a millionaire very quickly and then ...

and then she will file for bankruptcy even quicker.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

She will likely become a millionaire very quickly and then she can do whatever she wants. I doubt she will care about the occassional hounding once it's all said and done.

I call celeb rehab

 

[barryo]

she is going to be facing a defamation lawsuit from the lady she said was a babysitter but whether that goes anywhere or what that could garner for the plantiff is yet to be seen.......(hoping the lady can sue her for a ton of money & get any of her future earnings).

and if i was her dad & it was possible i would slap a defamtion lawsuit on her as well........