Greta Van Susteren covered the Duke Lacrosse Rape case on
OTR yesterday.
There is nothing like 'Gretchen gretchen gretchen'
to send your hopes crashing to the ground when finally
a US Congressman, Rep. Walter Jones, takes authoritative action
against Durham DA Mike Nifong, prosecutor of the Duke
Lacrosse Rape Hoax Case, and he appears on OTR live only
to call her by a name other than her own. Did Greta Van
Susteren not take a single minute to prepare her guest for
a live media interview by introducing herself to him? Is
she so busy being worried about Nicole Richie, who is
presumed innocent by the way, that she cannot get her priorities
straight in how to delegate minutes to matters of grave
importance like the Duke case and making sure she can
cover the story in a manner that appears to deliver a credible
and forceful account of how the lives of Collin Finnerty, Reade
Seligmann and David Evans are being destroyed? No, she would rather
be judge, jury and executioner of trying Nicole Richie in the media
by outright slandering her for taking vicodin which Greta stated she
obtained illegally without prescription without even first bothering
to check facts with Nicole's physician beforehand! What did Nicole
ever do to Greta? Nothing! That girl has a medical problem and we
are lucky to still have her with us and the last thing she needs is
to be convicted in the media without a trial, denied her own
constitutional rights by being presumed guilty so we can kill a
dog that is already down on the ground suffering, about to drop
dead from starvation. What the media owes Nicole, what Greta should
have had maturity to give her is presumption of innocence and
compassion and hope as a fellow human being instead of that trashing
that took precious time away from Collin and Reade from having
their injustices receive a halfway decent, credible account
in the news. 'Gretchen, Gretchen, Gretchen'. Pathetic sloppy
journalism!
And to make matters worse, we wake up to a Gretawire
today that is going 'dark'. Is Greta's job that she always
brags about being so easy taking a toll? Is it too HARD for
her now? Is she tired? She has been getting by with sloppy
efforts and minimal essential performance for months. She
has been at Fox News for five years now. That sounds like a
nice contract number and I bet her employment contract is up
for renewal this month. Is it getting renewed? I really have to
say, I hope not! She takes up a prime slot in the evening that
needs to be given to a journalist that is committed to excellence
and going the extra mile. Someone that will do some basic fact-
checking at the least. Someone that will extend presumption
of innocence to all defendants' cases that land on his or her media
desk with strict, unabiding integrity, and not just toward Tom
Delay. Where is the honorable legal analyst that will presume
Nicole Richie, Collin Finnerty, Neil Entwistle, Jason Young,
William Jefferson, Paris Hilton, Jeff Skilling, Wesley Snipes,
Joran Van Der Sloot all innocent until proven guilty? And once a
jury verdict returns 'not guilty', continue that presumption of
innocence instead of whine that 'not guilty' does not mean the
defendant was judged to be innocent? Where is he or she? It is not
Greta. She picks and chooses her media defendants and declares the
ones she doesn't like guilty before trial while declaring those
found not guilty to be guilty, like OJ, while declaring those found
to be guilty, innocent like Mark Fuhrman. Let's just forget the justice
system, Greta is in charge. I'll say not. I want to see a legal analyst
in primetime with some integrity that asserts a principle like presumption
of innocence and stick to it loyally, rather than pick and choose like
Greta does. I hope Fox News doesn't renew her contract. She is a sloppy, egotistical, lazy, suck-up, PC excuse for a journalist. She lies
to the viewers and spins news and tries to hurt suffering young
adults trying to get by in a world that could very well be blown
to nuclear shreds any day now. We are all trying to get by.
We try to help others if we can, help Collin. Help Reade. Help
Dave. Leave Paris and Nicole alone. I happen to enjoy The Simple
Life. It makes me laugh when sad things happen in my life and
it makes me feel loved when I am all alone and it makes me feel
real when I am a complete nobody. It completes my life, it does
and Paris and Nicole should get credit for work that improves the
quality of somebody else's existence in this world. They have never
hurt anyone. They are both presumed innocent. We do not know for a
fact Nicole drove the wrong way on the freeway. There is nothing to
substantiate that story but conjecture from a 911 call. No admission.
Nothing. She was lost. She could have been going in reverse on the
freeway onramp shoulder at 2 mph to get off the freeway. No one knows.
The 911 call did not cite a license plate. It is wrong for Greta and
everyone else (I am talking to you too Catherine Crier Wire) to presume
she was about to kill people when in fact she could have just been going
backward slowly on the shoulder of the road which is unlikely to
cause any death. But they want to spin it because Camille Paglia
says so. My my my. The poor middle aged feminists. You self-absorbed
media madens, leave Paris and Nicole alone and start doing something
good in this world like presenting credible and believeable,
researched, fact-checked accounts of what is going on in the Duke
Lacrosse rape case. Get to work Greta! I want to see an interview
with AG Alberto Gonzales tonight. Do you hear me? Get to work
on it now!
