Insipid MSNBC commentary on Diana's 10th Memorial...

the woman thinks she's Joan Rivers covering the Oscars, and the man is a gossipy creep. Even by standards which are applied to these goofily macabre circumstances, this is just beneath contempt. Lots of giggling and twittering.

You'd think that it was a Friar's Roast for Diana.

Didn't we watch the bodies and suffering of thousands of people on this date? Why are we commemnorating the anniversary of the death of a member of another nation's aristocracy?

As has been stated by many before me, Denial is not simply a river in Egypt. We ignore salient aspects of our society and focus on others as distractions.

The post below from the gentleman from the British Isles is 'spot on'.

I think they're carrying the memorial service live. I hate this royalty crap but she did produce two warm loving sons who clearly adored her.

Well being old enough, well old enough - to remember her when she was still alive I remember the opinion of practically everyone that she was an attention grabbing show pony, a clothes horse latching onto any cause to get publicity and embarras the Royal Family.

People were fed up to the back teeth of her.

then of course the old adage that "everyone loves you when your dead" got another tried and tested, well proven airing.

As for her two sons - I have no doubt that they loved her, but just how do they manage to get so much time off from the Army - we've had holiday snaps galore over the past few months, memorial concerts to be organised, now this.

I got 4 weeks a year leave when I was in the British Army and 6 weeks when based abroad, usually Germany - and of course unlike Royalty when there was imminent danger to be faced, Falklands, Gulf War One, Bosnia and seven tours of Northern Ireland - the first in 1979, - I didn't get generals stopping me from going - and I'm pretty sure my mother thought I was special as well - but off I went.

The Royal Family - fine as long as the Queen is alive, after she's gone then so should the Monarchy. Even if it is essentially just a ceremonial institution - the freeloaders and show ponies have killed it off for me - and Diana and Sarah Ferguson where the beginning of the end as far as I am concerned.

Sorry she's dead - it was an untimely and tragic end, but mothers die in traffic accidents, other accidents, deliberate acts and natural causes everyday - the main diffeence is that their not being driven by drunk french chauffers, and hypocrites don't think the world has ended because of it.

All the British monarchy perpetuates is class division. Let these parasites earn their lining like the rest of humanity.

No commentators, no voice-overs, just a live feed.

Okay, I take that back, NOW they have insipid commentators like Robin Leach.