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Nancy
So, I made it back from Alaska and I’ll tell you all about that, but right now, there’s something timely we need to discuss.
And that is Nancy Grace.
Now, you know I love me some Nancy, but it’s reached a whole new level of awe.
I am grateful I have a boyfriend with the presence of mind to tune to Nancy on Court TV when we found out the Michael Jackson verdict was in. Left to my own devices, I probably would have settled obliviously on CNN, and that would have been tragic.
In the long lead-up to the reading of the verdict, Nancy went absolutely feral, shedding her already thin facade of sanity. By turns, she berated and cozied up to her cadre of associates, mostly vaguely stripper-ish fellow lawyers, depending on whether they agreed or disagreed with her about whether Jackson was guilty, really guilty or guilty as sin.
But that was nothing compared with what happened after the verdict.
We thought for a moment that the medics had to be called to take Nancy out, but it was just time for Catherine Crier’s show to start. Calm, competent Catherine Crier. Where’s the fun in that?
We caught up with Nancy later on her Headline News show. You could say that Nancy wasn’t handling the verdict well. You could also say that she was spitting and snarling like a cat with mental problems, which I can tell you is also accurate, because I’ve seen just such a thing.
At one point, Nancy held up an enormous hunk of bread and meat and claimed she was “eating a crow sandwich.” Actually, it looked more like turkey, but I wouldn’t have told her that. When she sank her teeth into it, I imagined she was thinking of defense attorneys’ arteries.
We’re still contemplating what we experienced. Jeff just sent me Nancy stuff from Wikipedia and Time, which is really above and beyond, considering that yesterday he understood my need to eat nothing but Tex-Mex after I got back from the cruise. But the trip is a whole other story, and it involves people in moose suits, and we will leave it for another day.
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By Ellen
June 14, 2005 11:27 PM | Link to this
You're back! You're back! You're back!
All is right with the world. Also, I thought nothing could top my sister's cell-phone-delivered narrative of the verdict, but I'm feeling a sense of loss at missing Nancy's version.
By kat
June 15, 2005 08:33 AM | Link to this
NG is mesmerizing, like a train wreck. . . like a marathon of America's Next Top Model. Actually, I'm shocked that I don't hear her compared more to her doppleganger: Melanie Hutsell, the SNL short-timer who did a spot-on Jan Brady. She IS Nancy.