The clusterfuck that is the Casey Anthony trial

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he would have gotten away with too, if not for casey anthony killing a kid and "kim" overstepping herself on twitter

See that was better than the Scooby joke I was going to do, so.

the only person i'm connected to via facebook who cares about this is... my sister in law. ha/ugh

my wife's status update "where's dexter when you need him"

cant stop lolling -- watching this video of nancy grace saying "somewhere ... the devil is dancing ...." while i'm listening to "before i let go" by frankie beverly & maze underneath it

mashup!

"before i let go" by frankie beverly & maze

all fucking time

So many guilty lols at DJP's Susan Smith lyrics.

Eli Braden strikes again

@elibraden I think you stole the baseline from 'Under Pressure'. RT @vanillaice: OMG! Casey Anthony verdict NOT GUILTY!! WOW!! What do U think???????

Just read about this from The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/05/casey-anthony-verdict-not-guilty-murder) and I'm not sure I understand: she was guilty of driving around with the dead body in the car, but nothing else?

first heard about this case Sunday when I went to visit a friend and the mother-in-law started talking about it

am trying to think of a die tot-en hosen pun here in order to keep up with the news

out of curiosity, i'm actually watching nancy grace right now. angry people who all decided she's guilty anyway and the screen with big headlines "OUTRAGE" over it. these people are insane. how does cnn allow this program to go on the air?

lol nancy grace is on @ our house as well. some guest just predicted that casey anthony will return to her sexing, clubbing ways, have another kid, and "that child may also be thrown out like trash!"

this program is like 100x worse than the worst of fox news

how does cnn allow this program to go on the air?

^ have wondered this for years. nancy grace is completely horrible. can't take her for more than a minute at a stretch, if that. the waves of pure, psychopathic rage pouring off her at all times make her show one of the most viscerally revolting things i've ever seen on television.

i mean, i assume she's popular, but DNGI on any level.

i think i am going to wait ten years until this is an exquisitely rendered new yorker article, rather than 'rushing in' now and going piecemeal over the facts.

sure they wouldn't keep grace if she didn't get rating$$$. but this kind of exploitative trash that deliberately pushes the message that collective populist outrage is always right & the justice system is about vengeance.. really unamerican imho

My grandmother is addicted to Nancy Grace, so there's your demo right there.

the svu episode will be a two parter which i assume will end with her acquital and then as she's exiting court into a throng of reporters, one of the manic protestors from outside will rush up and shoot her and then fade to black exec prod dick wolf

live at the witch trials with nancy grace

it's a pretty strange case tbh

never seen Nancy G. tho, thank you god

it's totally strange! i paid zero attention until the past week when it was on just about every cable newscast thus unavoidable. so i watched some of fox's coverage because it was entertaining -> shep yelling about how everyone involved in the trial was incompetent and the explanation for the actions of all involved = CENTRAL FLORIDA WEIRDNESS

they have a helicopter over their house for crying out loud. nancy grace has moved on to being OUTRAGED that the defense team had champagne afterward. someone needs to start a car chase

there's quite a cultural studies thesis to be written about this kind of programming.

sittin' in back seat
kickin' in the front seat
why are the doors locked
shit is that a laaaaaaake?

Jeeeeeeeeesus I have maybe never laughed so hard and felt so bad about it.

dr drew is about to talk about the narcissism of the defense team

damn, i didn't know dr. drew was wrapped up with grace

some anti-defense attorney propaganda in this b

nancy grace is going to cry about the champagne thing

we're watching a damned nancy grace therapy sesh

they should have nancy grace lying on a couch

Oh no - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=237189926299700

R.I.P CAYLEE U WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN MY UR MOTHER PAY FOR WHAT SHE DID

If you can't even summon up enough outrage to spell out "you" then you don't deserve to turn on your porch light for Caylee Anthony from 9 pm until 6 am.

yknow maybe they acquitted her because the state didn't prove the case? good grief.

so glad the justice system in this country doesn't care about nancy grace's feeeeeelings

lots of angry eyebrows on this channel

686,217 people attending!

alright "xany nanny" is AMAZING

Keep this rose Going for Caylee ♥♥♥♥
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this is like a hollywood squares of self-righteous insanity

we all need to go back to work tomorrow solving murders

my porch light dont work but ill light a candle for you lil one ♥ rip

This person is actually on to something, albeit unintentionally:

Justice, my ass!!! So many of us are shaking our heads in disbelief tonight realizing that so many others have been prosecuted under less implication and circumstantial evidence. AUGH!

i feel somewhat guilty for being aware of this trial. but i'm not sure i should, really. it's worth asking why this trial was spotlit by the media when so many other heinous crimes get only local coverage. but as to why any particular person is interested--well, it's a compelling case. once it's been brought to your attention, via CNN's front page or what have you, it's not hard to become engaged by it.

in other words, the issue of why the mainstream media spent so much ink and webspace on this is one question, but any individual's interest in the case is, i suppose, another.

re. the verdict, i can't help but wonder if this is another instance of the "CSI effect," whereby juries feel they need one piece of unambiguous, incontrovertible material evidence to come up with a guilty verdict. even though a superabundance of circumstantial evidence, along with a host of good material evidence, can be the basis for a guilty verdict if a convincing theory--"beyond a reasonable doubt"-- can be offered as to how they all fit together.

i love how this thread went from a half-dozen shrugs one day to endless lolz and live-blogging nancy grace and the end of western civ less than a week later.

thanking u tater tot mutter

who has ruined our civic-legal culture more, jerry bruckheimer or joel surnow. or aaron sorkin ha ha ha.

it's still REALLY bizarre to me that nancy grace just calls her "tot mom" as if she legally changed her name

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(¸.•´(¸.• (¸.•´¸¸.•¨¯`•.¸¸.♥ Keep this balloon going in memory of Caylee Marie

still not getting "tot mom" despite four beers