31 July, 2006

See this face right here? She's on my people to fight list.


This is the reason why people are so skeptical of broadcast "jornalism." Not that I watch a lot of Nancy Grace ... or that I watch Nancy Grace at all. However, I've seen plenty YouTube evidence of her getting preachy and condescending at her guests. I'm pretty sure that Larocque can back me up on this since he actually watches Nancy Grace—for the irony and fun of course.

So it should come as no surprise to me when I found out her opinion on Scott Peterson's prison menu—or that she has an opinion on Scott Peterson's prison menu at all. Mr Peterson, in case you don't know or remember, is on death row for murdering his pregnant wife. (It shortly replaced all the JonBenet reporting in the supermarket tabloids. Though I think those tabloids are back on JonBenet-watch again. What a dedicated and tenacious bunch!)

GRACE: Hi. What would Scott Peterson be doing right now on death row?

CRITTENDON
(Public Information Officer of San Quentin prison): Well, right now, our death row inmates, they`ve just completed eating their evening meal that has been served to them, and probably in the next 20 minutes or so, the staff will be picking up those evening trays and finishing up with the evening meal.

GRACE: Vernell, explain to me, do they eat in their cells on San Quentin death row, or do they eat in a cafeteria? How does that work?

CRITTENDON: Well, all of our death row inmates, they eat in their cells alone. The cells, they are a single cell. They`re about 42 square foot of space inside of their cells.

GRACE: You mean they get room service, Vernell?

CRITTENDON: That's it, door-to-door service. We bring meals to them.

GRACE: Wow! So Vernell, what`s on the menu tonight at San Quentin?

CRITTENDON: This evening, the men here at San Quentin are going to be having a broiled chicken on the bone with some rice, a garden salad, a roll, and they`re going to get a small cup of ice cream for dessert.

GRACE: OK, wait a minute. Scott Peterson is having ice cream for dessert? Did I just hear that?

CRITTENDON: They get a balanced meal here at the Department of Corrections.

GRACE: Can't they just get a calcium supplement? Do they have to have a bowl of ice cream?


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Wow! It's nice to know that Ms Grace is a crusader of justice and punishment. It's probably a good thing that the prison chef didn't debone the chicken breast or serve it with some sauce from a can. Next thing you know, she'll probably demand Scott Peterson to sit in his corner facing the wall until they strap him down to the chair. Or, she'll make sure Scott Peterson does not get to request anything fancier than an unheated box of TV dinner as his last meal. The American penitentiary system is probably going to shit if it weren't for the vigilant monitoring that she provides.

Ms Grace probably should stick to what she does best: cable news specials on missing white girls and making white girls cry by asking incessantly about the time she got kidnapped. Real sensitive, that one.

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris O said...

I'm so glad you posted about this. I HATE Nancy Grace more than anything else on TV. I love the stuff about the burka when she talks with Smart. "How did you see out of that thing?!" There aren't too many people that I think should be burned at the stake, but Nancy Grace is one of them. I'll add her to my people to fight list too. Man, I hate her.

01 August, 2006 10:11  
Blogger Tonka Time said...

What a douche! Here's a girl, who was kidnapped from her home and was possibly sexually abused and you're forcing her to live through those days and goading her to DESCRIBE THEM TO YOU IN EXCRUCIATING DETAILS. On TV. You know, I'm glad that Smart gave her the smack down on national TV. She deserves it.

PS. I got your Osama idea and I think that's workable since I can just reuse the Brokeback panels. That's going to be so meta.

01 August, 2006 13:46  

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