Is this news? Natalee Holloway disappeared a very long time ago and nothing substantial has happened in this case for a month now. Yet it still finds its way into the headlines. This is thanks in large part to failed lawyer and now hack journalist/legal expert Nancy Grace who created a name for herself by trying and convicting Scott Peterson in the press, tainting any possible jury pool and ensuring that a fair trial was completely impossible. Nancy Grace is a horrible, horrible human being who will likely (if the Buddhists are right) be reincarnated as a slimy greenish black slug. My only hope is that when that happens, some troll-looking young boy is around to pour salt on her. Grace has since gone on to cover such important legal issues of our time as the Michael Jackson trial and more importantly has become the advocate for the Holloway/Twitty Families and personal critic-major of the Dutch legal system. People are giving John Stewart no end of grief for his soft interview of semi-fascist Senator Rick Santorum, but that was nothing compared to the puff interviews that Nancy Grace conducts almost daily with Holloway’s mom, a wannabe MILF who’s only claim to fame is that she has surpassed 40 with all of her teeth intact (something of a feat in Alabama).
I feel for the parents of Natalee Holloway. Nothing could more horrific than losing a child. No parent should have to outlive their children. My heart and thoughts go out to this family as it deals with a nightmare, the likes of which I hope I will never have to endure. But let’s face it, these parents made a rather sophomorically bad decision in allowing their 18 years old daughter to go on a “barely chaperoned” trip to
Of course, none of that matters. It really isn’t her parent’s fault any more than it is Nancy Grace’s. It is, quite simply, our fault. I have followed this case. Not because I think it is news. I have followed as something of a sociological research project. Or perhaps I watch for the same reason that we watch reality TV or a car accident on the freeway, because like lemmings, we are unable to turn away. Oh yes, dear readers, I have followed this case, and I am here to tell you that this is not news. It does not even approach the level of news. This isn’t even worthy of the six o’clock news in
What is our national obsession with blond white girls? Lindsay Lohan, the Olsen twins, Natalee Holloway, the list goes on and on. We all complain about the coverage this stuff receives and yet it keeps coming. Why God, why? I’ll tell you why, because we are lazy. We are unwilling to use the squishy grey stuff between our ears. In addition, we are like ostriches; we don’t want to know all the horrible things happening in this world. We can’t handle the images of our young men and women dying in
We need to take a step back and consider what really matters. The death of anyone always matters. Natalee Holloway was probably a good kid who was robbed of a future by some terrible person on her last night in
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You know what I don't get about people, if it annoys you don't read it. Yeah I guess we are all entitled to our opinions. But the fact is if it annoys you it's because some how you identify with it. Because if it was your kid that was dead and missing in Aruba and lets face it she is dead you'd use any methods to at least find the body so you could give your child a proper funeral, say good bye properly and have some closure. Death sucks, loosing a loved one sucks and losing a child sucks worse. As children we aren’t raised being told when you have a child some day they might die before you. Parents aren’t suppose to bury their children and in this case they haven't the opportunity to even do that yet. If this is how the Holloway's deal with the death of their daughter so be it, I can think of far worse ways of dealing with it. And if this is how Nancy Grace makes a name for herself who cares. I have never heard of Nancy Grace or maybe I have but could care less about her importance...or maybe it's just because I don't retain much these days. But you know I have heard of about all the other travesties in the world you write about and we can handle the images we just chose to do nothing about it because frankly none of us have the energy to deal with it. Call us lazy, call us what you want. For most of the population just living their own life day to day is a 5 mile uphill backwards barefoot in the snow work out. Most of us can only deal with the little tiny world that revolves around us, because it's how we deal. Besides when someone like George Bush gets elected twice most of us do just give up and block out the unacceptable. And Who's to blame their parenting skills or the authorities in Aruba, or the girl herself ? The one to blame is the individual(s) who killed her. That’s the individual(s) who should be judged. OH and I for one think Scott Peterson is guilty and got what he deserved and for the record I followed that case very closely on the crime and trails portion of Yahoo News, almost as closely as I followed Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's break up.
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