Federal agents and police are probing a toddler's behavior after a video seemed to indicate that some young adults gave her ecstacy.
There is no evidence that the child was given any drugs.
This video very well could be a hoax. We don't know.
However, CNN's Nancy Grace is already on the case, crusading to have the women in the van executed, already so sure of the situation, like she was in the Melinda Duckett case and the Duke lacrosse case.
As many of you know, Grace is pregnant with twins, and I'm convinced that once she gives birth, she will eat the weakest of the two babies. I find the 48-year-old TV show host to be reprehensible. Vile. Disgusting.
Personally, I think a case could be made that she and her show have obstructed justice, and I think it's not outside the realm of legality that she could one day face charges. I'm no lawyer, but I figure that at some point, an investigator will work with a court to produce an injunction, one that Grace will probably ignore.
Sure, people say, Grace was turned on to law by the murder of her fiance some 29 years ago. However, Grace exaggerated the circumstances of Keith Griffin, according to a March 2006 article in the New York Observer.
Nevertheless, at the heart of things, Nancy Grace believes she's doing some good on-air, helping battered women, helping rape victims, when in the case of the latter, she's the face of a movement -- during the Duke rape case -- that single-handedly crippled future rape prosecutors for the next 10 years.
An article from last fall on slate.com took an even-handed look into Grace's role in the Melinda Duckett case. Grace interviewed the woman, whose child was missing, and was brutally tough, acting less like a host and more like a prosecutor. Duckett was overwhelmed and eventually killed herself before the show aired.
CNN aired the interview anyway. Grace apologies to nobody, and there is a legitimate argument to be had as to whether she should. I'm not convinced Grace should be forced, as a television show host, to live up to some journalistic standard when her show is clearly infotainment.
But, this slate.com article correctly points out that Grace is helping to lead pop culture justice right down the drain to the detriment of actual justice:
Nancy Grace didn't kill Melinda Duckett, but she is aiding and abetting the death of public confidence in the law. Grace dresses like a lawyer and talks like one, but the only thing she seems to feel for the court system is contempt. The only time the cops, prosecutors, and courts get it right, in her view, is when they finally nail someone (like Scott Peterson) she declared guilty months earlier. Otherwise they are a time-suck and a nuisance. The law is a means to Nancy's ends. She is the nation's foremost legal activist.
As I watched Grace discuss this video of this toddler, supposedly on X (MDMA), I realized again that in her mind, this is a closed case. Anything short of bringing out the nooses was essentially a time-waste, when in my mind, I'm willing to bet that this video could have been nothing more than viral nonsense.
However, Grace's views on this case aren't terribly important. What is important is her effect on real-world investigations, and while I hope to have many opportunities to outline instances in which she goes too far or poke fun at her for alienating her producer live on the air (which is a television no-no), I first needed to point out that she is in fact the devil.
Enjoy this classic Jon Stewart clip regarding Grace:
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I could not agree more with you about Nancy disGrace ... but the more troubling aspect is that people want this kind of rubbish. I too am from Oklahoma (originally) and find this kind of poison a lashing out reminiscent of home grown fears of intellectual insecurity.
Peace Love and West Tulsa
Kaz
In another life Nancy Grace was a witch burner. Little things like evidence or presumption of innocence never get in the way of her rush to judgment.Her chain of logic is that whoever can scream the loudest is correct. Nancy Grace is a boil on the ass of humanity and the foe of both our legal system and rational thought.