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What Is the Fascination With Casey Anthony?
Townhall.com ^ | July 9, 2011 | Sandy Rios

Posted on 07/09/2011 7:30:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: digger48

This cartoon says it all


21 posted on 07/09/2011 7:50:30 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Tupelo
Fixation with the Casey Anthony trial and the fury over the out come can only be described as a nation wide lynch mob. If they could get at her, they would lynch her. We have seen it before and we will see it again.

NO difference in all those fixated in making sure they stand on 'high' and point fingers of ugly accusation with NOT one shred of evidence. Must be nice to be up there where some consider themselves to reside.

22 posted on 07/09/2011 7:52:48 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: omega4179

I heard a woman juror say something to the effect that a guilty verdictor maybe death penalty would have caused an uproar. What? Jurors DO NOT need to blab after the fact. They should be anonymous. But her comment made me think they were swayed less by what they believed and more by what people might think. No real backbone anymore.


23 posted on 07/09/2011 7:53:55 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Biggirl

“Maybe the fixation comes from the fact that people are TOO SCARED to even think that our nation is on FIRE.’

Bingo! It was/is a diversion. I stopped watching the stuff in the last few days, but was fixated on the trial. Looking back, I think my own fascination was basically a diversion and vacation from watching our nation being flushed down the toilet. Finally....something to watch besides the endless drone of media marxists and liars.


24 posted on 07/09/2011 7:54:45 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Kaslin

Would the murder trial have even made it beyond local news coverage if Casey was fat and homely or even a woman of color or trailer trash? Not a chance. All over the country there are murder trials and investigations going on with even more interesting plots yet they go under the national radar because they don’t fit the mode of today’s tabloid news coverage - of beautiful, or famous people missing, dead, or in trouble with the law. I call it the OJ syndrome, and it’s all about TV ratings and hooking suckers to tune in night after night.


25 posted on 07/09/2011 7:56:15 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Jonty30
I don't know if she was evil or not. After all they showed pictures or videos of her playing with Caley, but when her own pleasure is more important to her as her child, it shows that she was an unfit mother.

Her mother should have applied for custody of the child.

26 posted on 07/09/2011 7:56:46 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Just mythoughts

“THIS for me was never about ‘ratings’, but a flash image of what American society has deteriorated into .... TRUTH is the first casualty of any civil society. “
And the Jury verdict comfirmed what many of us have suspected was going on for decades.

Lying is acceptable, all men are molestors, common sense has disappeared. Attorney’s with filthy mouths have brought our Court Rooms to nothing but sleezy bar rooms. Honest people are ridiculed. Mothers having their children sleep in the same bed as she and some guy she’s known for less than a month is perfectly acceptable behavour. And in fact makes her a good mom.

This was the white OJ trial.
Identity theft, check fraud, credit card fraud. Hey no biggee.
Kill your kid, Oh Well.
The Jury is an indictment of the American Educqtion system.


27 posted on 07/09/2011 7:57:32 AM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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To: JRochelle

I watched a few days at the end, but otherwise I changed the channel as soon as it came up


28 posted on 07/09/2011 7:58:45 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: truthkeeper
>> Casey Anthony's story is not tragic.
Caylee Anthony's is.<<

As a Christian I think that Casey Anthony’s story is tragic. It breaks my heart to see what the lack of Christ in ones life leads to. I pray that she finds Christ and repents and is saved.

29 posted on 07/09/2011 8:00:56 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: The Raven
I think that Kaylee was let down by this jury.

After a couple of months of going thru all the perverted shit thrown out by both sides, this jury could not stand one more minute of it.

They were by now getting annoyed with each other, some even coming to hate their fellow jurors. There were a few jurors who were for conviction, some for lesser verdicts, and some for acquittal, and it became clear that it would take perhaps months to come to a verdict of guilty.

The solution which would get them home right now and the one which would insure that an "innocent" person would not be punished would be to simply let Casey go.

So thats what they did.

They let Casey go in order to reclaim their lives...they were sick and tired of each other, of the judge, of all the lawyers, looking at the face of Casey and her "family" and absolutely appaling would be having to go thru any of the "evidence" again....

..so there is no justice for Kaylee in this world....

.....justice for Kaylee is in the hands of God.

30 posted on 07/09/2011 8:01:56 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: Kaslin

The TV media know that they control the minds of Americans and what most people pay attention to. If it wasn’t on TV, people really wouldn’t care about it and would focus on more important/relevant subjects.

They want to keep the American public distracted. Now that the trial is over, get ready for another “important” distraction heading our way...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

“… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses”


31 posted on 07/09/2011 8:02:23 AM PDT by jq2
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To: Kaslin

I, too, am puzzled as to the media’s fascination with this case, which has even dominated talk shows hosted by the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, who usually focus on far bigger issues.

This sort of phenomenon has happened before. I recall that in 1997 a babysitter somewhere on the East Coast was charged with killing a baby. If I remember correctly, no celebrities or VIP’s were involved, yet the national media was absolutely riveted on this case and likely made it the biggest news event of the year. At the time, I was puzzled by all the attention given to what should have been a local news story.


32 posted on 07/09/2011 8:03:03 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Kaslin

The media has decided that the story is fascinating.

A far more interesting story is the one about the 3 missing boys from Morenci Michigan. Dad took them for Thanksgiving and never brought them back. First he said he gave them to a woman, then he said he killed them and now he’s saying he gave them to a group that protects children. He’s been in jail ever since.


33 posted on 07/09/2011 8:06:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: omega4179

Pinellas County - same one where Terry Schiavo was executed...

All about the money and ratings and book/movie deals — Nancy Grace started the relentless coverage from the beginning, mainly because of the availability of “on-the-scene” footage from the local media in Orlando. This whole Anthony family is so skanky that it makes people feel better to see “well, at least we’re not THAT BAD!” All those Moms with PPD who are cooking their newborns in microwaves or drowning them in the lake just don’t have the same penache. Not enough post-homicide drama to carry a talking head show.

My son watched the trial mainly to see the arguments the lawyers presented. He created this video to show Nancy Grace’s true reaction to the verdict.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p04mWOwwH6E


34 posted on 07/09/2011 8:07:21 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Kaslin

I’d love to see a breakdown by gender of those who were really into it. Those threads on FR got a couple of thousand posts in a day! I’m not saying it wasn’t interesting for some men, just not me, and I am male. I would guess that more women than men were really into it, but I reckon I could be wrong.

Freegards


35 posted on 07/09/2011 8:08:11 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Fiji Hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Woodward_case


36 posted on 07/09/2011 8:10:17 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: penelopesire

Some things never change.

Bread and circuses; watching animals tears each other apart, slaughtering a few Christians, or watching gladiators kill each other, all while the barbarians are at the gates.

Well, in the end no matter how much you ignore them, the barbarians are going to get in and do what barbarians do.


37 posted on 07/09/2011 8:10:46 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: CynicalBear
I respect your perspective totally.

I'm a Christian too, and I see it a bit differently. When it comes to sociopathy, I fall on the side of nature. I do believe Casey Anthony is the classic "bad seed." In addition to everything else, she's got "the look." (Look on yesterday's thread for a picture of it, I know it is several hundred posts in.) I also saw a rare video (now on YouTube, I believe) of her at age 5 and she had "the look" even then, as well as a flat affect and vocal intonation. ("My name's Casey...happy birthday...my name's Casey.)

Now did it help that her totally crazy family watered the seed? Of course not.
But I still think she was born this way. Something was plainly off from the time she was a small child. And we will surely hear all the stories now that the vultures have been released. $$$

38 posted on 07/09/2011 8:11:24 AM PDT by truthkeeper (Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012!)
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To: Entrepreneur
and also reality TV. Who cares?

A good indicator of a persons character and overall usefulness is the number of reality TV shows they've never heard of and never watched.

39 posted on 07/09/2011 8:11:50 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Ransomed

I have a friend that watched every minute of it. She went with me to our boat last weekend. She kept trying to tell me about it and I kept telling her....stop, I don’t care.
I didn’t watch 1 second of it.. If it came on I would immediately switch the channel. lol


40 posted on 07/09/2011 8:17:30 AM PDT by sheana
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