Charge Nancy Grace with murder

Melinda Duckett, a mother of a missing two-year-old, was interviewed by Nancy Grace, one of the attack hounds pretending to be TV journalists. Within 24 hours of the interview Melinda Duckett committed suicide. In the interview Ms. Grace came inches short of actually accusing her of killing her baby. In her usual style Ms. Grace was presuming her interviewee was guilty, just because Ms. Grace thought she was.

Melinda Duckett might've very well killed her baby, who knows. However, when an interviewer knows her interviewee has a history of suicide attempts and is already distressed, would it be wise to push as hard as Ms. Grace did?

It probably wouldn't, but then Ms. Grace never has cared for anything other than her ratings, so it doesn't really come as a great surprise to me she would recklessly endanger the life of Melinda Duckett.

I suppose she thinks she did a great service to the mankind for what she did. I'm sure she also thinks the guilty deserve anything they got coming to them. Too bad Melinda Duckett wasn't found guilty by anyone else than Ms. Grace at this point.

Take Nancy Grace off the air, and arrest her for murdering Melinda Duckett.

Update: Melinda Duckett's family is sueing CNN and Nancy Grace

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The Today Show covers Steve Irwin's death

The Crocodile Hunter Mr. Steve Irwin was killed earlier today while filming an underwater documentary. He'll be missed.

There's nobody who's more enthuasiastic and passionate about wildlife and nature conservation than him. He was always great fun to watch even if you were terrified of the creatures he was wrestling with.

That's what you would've expected to perhaps see in the news coverage of his death. How sadly mistaken I was. I briefly caught the morning news shows covering the news. I was disgusted by what I saw.

Pretty much all the major networks had decided to cover his death in the following manner:

20 second blurb stating he'd died and how. No elaboration, nothing, no word on how his family was doing or that he'd died doing what he loved.

The next few minutes were devoted not to telling about his lifework and his achievements. Naah, that would've apparently been much too boring. Instead all the major networks went onto showing people how Mr. Irwin in 2004 took his baby in an alligator pit while feeding the alligators. This was covered in length, as if it was the defining moment of his life. The Today Show went as far as to show almost the entire interview of Steve Irwin by Matt Lauer. In the interview Matt Lauer is practically ripping Mr. Irwin a new asshole. It was very confrontational.

Where is the respect, humility and decency in that?? Utterly despicable.

One wonders at what point did the NBC producers stop being human beings in favor of the neverending chase for ratings.

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dickishness - dick-ish-ness

Watch the most brilliant Daily Show segment ever.

Main Entry: dick-ish-ness
Pronunciation: 'dik-ish-n&s
Function: noun
: usually vulgar : an aura eminating from someone being a particularly dickheaded dick

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Hell freezes over - I agree with Lou Dobbs on something

Lou Dobbs rips the (pseudo-)conservative Republicans a new one over the idiotic pandering constitutional amendment initiative to ban gay marriage. He says:

It's an insult to the intelligence of every voter, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.

Couldn't agree more.

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Guilty until proven innocent

Looks like a couple of the Michael Jackson trial jurors are milking in the dough on the media interview circus by basically saying "we thought he was innocent of the crimes accused, but we should've convicted him anyway, because he might've been guilty of other crimes".

That's exactly what was wrong in all the media coverage during the trial. Because the dude is a monkey-loving, plastic-surgery-defaced freak we should put him away, cause we don't like him. Fine. Let's go that way, but only if we get to jail other people we don't like as well. In fact, I have a LONG list of people I don't like and rather see neutralized before they can do more harm.

In fact, let's do one better. Let's have the MEDIA run trials and convict people using website polling:

Q. Should we hang this ugly african-american man?
1. Hell yea, hang the n****, I'm from the south
2. Heavens, no! I'm a tree-hugging liberal intellectual from Vermont, death penalty is wrong
3. Whatever YOU think, Geraldo Rivera
4. Dude, I don't know, I'm so high I can't even click on the right freakin button
5. No, but hang this other dude I don't like

That'd save a fortune and, even better, it'd be a revenue generating activity for the private businesses. What could be better???

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1994 - The Year Internets Started

Someone tell CNN they're off by about a decade, mmm'kay?

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Of Living Wills

Makes more sense than all the "Culture of Life" bullshit spewed upon the masses by "well meaning" congress critters nearing the end of their current term, for sure.

Link via Kim.

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Sometimes the answer is just staring you in the face

In a rather astoundingly useless poll by CNN/USA Today/Gallup 49 percent of the US people say Bush is a divider, another 49 percent say he's a uniter and the remaining 2 percent don't care one way or another.

It must have taken superhuman restraint from the CNN editor to keep the obvious conclusion off the writeup.

Meanwhile CNN is working on a poll to study if people think water is wet.

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Bury that one alive

The latest in a long series of reality tv series gets cancelled after only one episode.

Hurray! Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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