Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Shrill And Grace

I didn't watch Larry King during CNN's coverage of the War Against Iraq, but it couldn't have been any worse than his non-war coverage -- a parade of former has-beens, recovering has beens and aged news anchors pitching "their" books, etc. The bottom of the barrel is King's coverage of overhyped crime stories, where he assembles "all-star panels" of self-promoting legal hacks in a vain attempt to dignify the proceedings. Barbara Olson was perhaps the head hack before she was killed. The new number one is Nancy Grace. Grace appears again tonight, the third night in a row, to speculate about Laci Peterson.

Joshua "Josh" Marshall has Grace nailed:

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace comes from another planet? Or do you think so too? Nancy Grace, of course, is the Court TV anchor and semi-permanent guest on Larry King Live whose job it is, on Larry's show at least, to be the voice of militant sentimentalism. Tonight Larry was doing his 950th segment on the Laci Peterson murder and Nancy was in classic form as what you might call the hanging dingbat. In the standard engagement, some defense lawyer will be there making a point about how the defense might make its case and Nancy butts in: BUT THE BABY! DO YOU KNOW LACI WAS ONLY 5'1?!?!? But Nancy, we're just trying to talk through how the case might be argued ... BUT THE BABY! But Nancy ... HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THAT MAN AFTER WHAT HE DID TO HIS HAIR? ... But, Nancy, we're not ... TYPICAL DEFENSE LAWYER!!! But ... Well, you get the idea.

Josh's only problem is that his characterization is too subtle.

Bob Somerby highlights some of Grace's earlier hackwork here , here and here.

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