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Time to commence “the Obama Games”!

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:55:00 +0000

Overview
Congratulations! Big fan. Look, I know you're busy. The fiscal cliff, Afghanistan, your recipes Pinterest, immigration, climate change, walking Bo -- we get it, you've got a lot on your mind. We're completely behind you. Solving America's tough problems will take months of hard work, though, and we need something from you right now. When I say "instant," you say "gratification." Instant! (I'm going to assume you said it.) We've been glued to this election for over two years -- nervously vibrating to a wobbly pitch of hope and fear. We need to come down, and not all of us live in Colorado. While you're facing all of our challenges, we're suffering a crippling intellectual and emotional attention deficit left behind by the election. I have an idea. Hear me out, because I made a few jokes on Twitter that obviously turned the election in your favor so I think you owe me. I see you nodding.

Nancy Grace is more terrible than ever

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:10:00 +0000

Cable news depends on colorful characters to draw eyeballs in between those reminders that there are "no new developments" in the real stories of the day. But even in a sea of distinctive jerkwads – your Erin Burnetts and Piers Morgans and Bill O'Reillys and Megyn Kellys -- HLN host Nancy Grace never fails to distinguish herself. And just when you think she can't find new depths to plumb, along comes the Whitney Houston story.

Grace, the woman who has made an entire cottage industry out of her indignation over Casey Anthony, who paints herself nightly as the avenging angel of poor dead Caylee, has never been one to trade in subtlety -- or, for that matter, facts. CNN had to settle a wrongful death suit after the mother of a missing child killed herself after being browbeaten on her show. (The parties agreed that Grace "engaged in no intentional wrongdoing.") She fearlessly championed the prosecution's side in the Duke lacrosse team rape case, blithely referring to "the victim," and went ballistic over the very notion that the accused might be innocent. (She then conveniently remained quiet on the subject after the case was dismissed.) This, folks, is a woman who has guilt-tripped abduction victim Elizabeth Smart for not playing along with her interview tactics. And even after a jury found Casey Anthony not guilty last summer, she has held on to the story like a dog with a bone, insisting that "I told the truth," luxuriating in descriptions of "the backdrop of 2-year-old Caylee's decomposing body just a few houses down from where Tot Mom put her pillow every night," and excoriating Anthony for – rich irony alert –"generating interest in herself."

Our creepy, endless fascination with Casey Anthony

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

It's been six months since a Florida jury found Casey Anthony not guilty in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Since then, the woman who spent three years awaiting trial behind bars -- and in the glare of the news spotlight – has kept a low profile. Considering the lingering questions about her innocence, the intense public resentment over the verdict, and a steady stream of death threats, her hibernation is hardly a surprise. But perhaps some part of Casey Anthony has missed the attention.

In a new video -- ostensibly recorded in October but which did not emerge until Thursday -- a now blond, bobbed and bespectacled Anthony narrates a four-minute "diary" entry about her new life. She says she's "extremely excited" about her future and new computer – being able to Skype, take pictures, and "finally have something that I can finally call mine." What she doesn't mention? The child she used to call her own.