Posted on 03/09/2006 12:23:37 PM PST by robjna
I listened to Elizabeth Smart and her father last nite on the Sean Hannity Radio Show and it reminded me that when the story was first out,something seemed not right about the whole affair. As I listened to her talk last nite, she seemed really slow and almost programmed. I don't know why i felt the whole story was hinky. Is that a word? I just felt the father was hiding something and the daughter wasn't acting like an abducted child. Maybe she was and her slowness made her easily manipulated. Has anyone ever heard about what happened to her abductors? The Smart family seemed liked the "stepford family". Has anyone else ever gotten strange vibes from this whole affair or am I alone on this one?
She may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
hinky is a word on CSI!
NCIS actually.
I certainly thought she sounded strange too but am not much of a conspiracy theorist.
I took her tentative and slow manner of speaking to be indicative of the subject matter.
Sean asked some questions I thought might have been tough for her to anwer and Elizabeth conceded that at one point and said she didn't want to talk about something.
There is something a little off about putting a young victim like that under the spotlight. I didn't enjoy that segment of the show even though I have so much compassion for the Smart family and all they have been through.
Ditto here.
A long time aqo when I was in college I had a roommate who was an ex-moonie. His parents had snatched him from the moonies and had him "de-programmed". I knew him both before and after his moonie experience. He was not exactly "right" after being deprogrammed - every now and then he'd get a far away look in his eyes and I always thought he was wishing he was back in moonieland.
I listended to the radio interview yesterday. I'm not sure what to think. She does sound almost as if she is in denial about it. Refuses to talk about what happended. I realize people deal with things in different ways, but it seems to me to be unhealthy to just "wipe it from memory" like she said she is doing.
She is 18 now, and not very articulate, I'm sorry to say. Though, many girls or teens that age aren't either. She couldn't answer the simplist of questions. Maybe she was just nervous.
In any case, God bless her.
Who in blazes is Elizabeth Smart and why should I care about her?
Well, given that she was raped repeatedly for nine months by some nut and kept away from her family, though she was close to them, I would think that she just might have a hard time talking about it.
You misunderstand what I meant. I don't mean that she should talk about it to the media, or the public in any way, but she said that she hasn't told her family anything either.
I understand your point, I just think repression can be more harmful in the long run. You cannot overcome what you won't deal with.
LOL!
She may be "slow" and her day may be weird.
But slow children of weird parent do not deserve to kidnapped and raped.
She may be "slow" and her DAD may be weird.
But slow children of weird parent do not deserve to kidnapped and raped.
Definitely.
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Do you remember the series of pictures and short pieces of video they used to continually show on the news shows when she was missing>
Of course there was the one with her playing the harp..... but remember the haunting short video (in black and white I think) where she was down on a beach, looked like it was around near dusk, and she and a couple of others were roasting marshmallows on home-made sticks. Now I'm no perv at all, but for a second or two she looked directly at the person who was filming, and it was one of the most beautiful "seductive" looking gazes I had ever seen in my life. It struck me as very odd. I must have seen that segment at least 30 times, and it always amazed me at how interesting she appeared.
Anyhow, I think somehow the whole thing seemed a little odd, I won't go so far as to say it was staged, but it was weird.
And I'd bet some day in the future that girl goes into the movie industry as an actress........... something of a Frances Farmer type, but hoping that she certainly ends up better than that poor girl (Jessica Lange played her brilliantly).
Why do the Smarts keep showing up in the media? Why does Ed always seem to be pushing Elizabeth to perform in public? If Elizabeth wants to grant interviews when she is an independent adult, fine, but her father has been shamefully derelict in protecting her privacy throughout this ordeal. I wouldn't tell dear old Ed anything either if he was my dad. He's a publicity hound, and his daughter probably knows it.
You're quite right. Sean should not have had her on the show. Too often it's ALL ABOUT HIM. Yesterday was one of those times.
There is a lot of evidence that this isn't really true, although it is a very common belief.
Many people who undergo horrific tragedies function better and are happier when they just "forget about it" and go on with their lives.
Others seem to do better when they do the traditional "talk it out" thing.
People vary.
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