Nancy Grace Suicide Watch (Part Two)
On 28 August 2006, I posted some remarks on that loon who falsely claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey. I entitled that post “Nancy Grace Suicide Watch” because I meant to insult Grace —whom I regard as emotionally unstable and socially incompetent— for having lost out on the juiciest Big Media story since O.J. Simpson.
Well, creepily enough, Nancy Grace has indeed become associated with the idea of suicide —although not in the way I implied in that first post. In the current case, Grace may have contributed to the suicide of a woman whose baby has been kidnapped and who made the mistake of allowing herself to be grilled and harrassed by Grace.
I say Grace may have contributed to this woman’s suicide, but I don’t know if that’s empirically true. The bottom line for me, though, is that it’s unimportant. If this incident can, in any way, be made to malign Grace and drive her from her perch as one of the shrillest and most irresponsible chattering sphincters on television today, then I am all for it.
It would be impossible to overstate my revulsion at what Big Media does to keep and grow its audience. There are many people in my life —mostly women— who get themselves wrapped up in this Scott and Lacy Peterson sort of filth. And I actually resent it because I think it is emotional pornography and salacious garbage intended to keep otherwise normal people thinking about nothing when they should be thinking of a great many other things.
Shame on Headline News for employing someone like Nancy Grace and shame on her equally despicable producers and programmers.
