Cable News's Lurid "Race to the Bottom", Part 2345674--Nancy Grace

EDIT TO ADD: Sorry if this has already been covered, but it's the first I've seen it (don't normally watch her show) and I just can't believe it!

Get Smart
The story: kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart goes on Nancy Grace's CNN show to promote sex-offender legislation, and Grace digs for prurient details and cues the tears for victims everywhere with lines like, "You were such a little girl."

Smart proves her humanity not by guiding us through the mind of the child-victim, but by rolling her eyes and changing the subject. "I'm not here to give an interview on that. I'm here to push this bill through," she reprimands Grace, who can't resist one more little dig before dropping her shovel.

Video Link: http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/media/2006/07/24/smart_grace/index.html

If that doesn't work for you, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am0uJkRSMNw

Whenever Ms. Grace's darkens the door here, I always like to see ronny post that pic!

Grace is an ass and she really proved it with this interview. The kid was a class act and really put the queen of lurid in her place...

A proper smack down!

GOD! I hate Nancy Grace! That opportunist, sensationalizing piece of shit bitch. FUCK!

...but I hate her, already!

SNIP

Grace often defends her more outlandish positions by referring to her own status as the victim of a violent crime: In 1979, when she was 19, her fiancé was murdered by a stranger. Grace has said that that the case taught her how the system favors criminals over victims: After a lengthy trial ended in a sentence of life imprisonment instead of the death penalty, she felt justice had been denied her. She changed career paths and went into law. But even this story has its faults -- as a recent story in the New York Observer pointed out, she's allegedly sensationalized or mixed up a lot of the key details: The murderer was a former co-worker of her fiancé's, not a random passerby; the jury moved to convict in just a few hours, not after days of deliberation; the killer avoided the death penalty because he was mildly retarded; the case happened in 1980, not 1979.

Of course, some people must like Grace. Her eponymous CNN Headline News show has been steadily gaining viewers since it debuted in February 2005 and now attracts more than 600,000 people a night. But even her fans must harbor some low-level loathing for her. Her show caters to the same instinct that makes people take in the occasional dogfight: a lust for blood, a desire for brutality. Here's a recent follow-up question she asked a doctor about the Yates case: "Dr. Phillips, you described the drowning process earlier. And regardless of the fact that the last face you see before you die is your mother holding you under, what type of pain, or is there any pain to drowning?" Can't you see she cares?

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/08/22/nancy_grace/

is only one of the reasons that Keith Olbermans Countdown is the only cable news show I watch

thank god for LINK TV

by a very self-assured teenager. Smart: "To be frank, I don't appreciate your bringing all this up..." Grace: "Oh, I'm sorry, dear..." What a patronizing, trivializing excuse for a journalist this bimbo is. Unctuous & cloying don't even begin to describe her. Thank God I don't have cable! SG