Lack of Grace

I guess it’s Pick on Celebrities Week here at the ol’ Brandt rant hut.   So pull up a chair while I share the latest eyebrow-raiser.

I’ve long loathed Nancy Grace, the shrieking former prosecutor who became a talk show host.  She started out as a special correspondent during the Lacy Peterson murder case and filled her reports with wild and ridiculous speculation.  But the fake news business tends to hire people who have camera presence first and abilities second.  CNN headline news once put an actor from NYPD Blue on as an anchor just because, well, a monkey can read news if it has blond hair, right?  Journalism, shmernalism.  That experiment only lasted a few months before the actress quit, whining that the shifts were too long and it was HARD! 

Enough people have bought into Grace’s accusatory table thumping to keep her on the air. If she’s wrong, she just gets louder.  A few years ago she taped an interview with a 21 year old Mom about the disappearance of her son during which she verbally thrashed the woman, accusing her of hiding something.  The woman shot herself the day the interview was supposed to air.  Now the family’s wrongful death suit is underway and this is the part that I find too rich to be anything but true:  Grace wants the judge to ban cameras at her deposition to, and I quote: protect her from embarrassment. 

This is a woman who routinely humiliates people on national television.  If Grace still believes the young Mom had something to do with her son going missing – which still hasn’t been proven – the least she could do is have the integrity to subject herself to a bit of a red-face while she defends herself.  It’s a crazy sense of entitlement.  And it fits in perfectly with my impression of her.