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Shellie Zimmerman: How bad was that news conference?
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | September 12, 2013 | Hal Boedeker

Posted on 09/12/2013 1:04:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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If Shellie Zimmerman wants her marriage to George Zimmerman to end quietly, she should avoid holding press conferences that become disasters.

She should avoid press conferences in general, but that one Wednesday? Ouch.

How bad was that conference with Shellie's attorney Kelly Sims?

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

"Long and at times bizarre," WESH-Channel 2 anchor Syan Rhodes said. WESH anchor Jim Payne found it "one of the most bizarre displays I think I have ever seen."

Robin Roberts of ABC's "Good Morning America" called the press conference "rambling." ABC's Matt Gutman described Sims' performance as "often theatrical" at 40 minutes.

Sims' melodramatic presentation included references to the Batmobile, Siegfried & Roy, Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry and the Tower of Terror.

"Zimmerman's wife fires back," "GMA" headlined the story.

The consensus: She and her attorney missed the target....

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: divorce; shelliezimmerman; trayvon; zimmerman
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I'm sure they were poised to believe every word she said, too.
1 posted on 09/12/2013 1:04:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I suspect she may be trying to cash in as an anti-Zimmerman spokesperson. The liberal press may take her up on it.


2 posted on 09/12/2013 1:05:40 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shellie thinks her fifteen minutes are just starting. Somebody should show her the memo.


3 posted on 09/12/2013 1:06:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When your policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on enthusiastic support from Paul.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She wants her marriage to “end quietly”?? She might want to stop the TV interviews, then.


4 posted on 09/12/2013 1:07:54 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the fame whore has been watching too much Bravo.


5 posted on 09/12/2013 1:09:13 PM PDT by AU72
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shellie makes me question George’s judgement. Anyone can make a mistake, but just sayin’... I had a marriage that went bad once a long time ago, but we were honorable about it.


6 posted on 09/12/2013 1:10:05 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t take the shovel away from Shellie. She like to dig.


7 posted on 09/12/2013 1:10:46 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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I don’t understand why shellie had to get permission from George to pick up her things from her own father’s home. Why did George show up? I thought George was living in a trailer.


8 posted on 09/12/2013 1:12:08 PM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: snowstorm12

George is living at the house.


9 posted on 09/12/2013 1:13:28 PM PDT by Andy'smom
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To: snowstorm12

George was living in his FIL’s home with his permission from other reports that I’ve read.


10 posted on 09/12/2013 1:16:35 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Andy'smom

he needs to move on and out. That’s her familys home. That’s awkward.


11 posted on 09/12/2013 1:16:47 PM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: snowstorm12

I am not surprised both George and wife have been driven nuts.


12 posted on 09/12/2013 1:19:00 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I do not understand how this girl can call a news conference and get the media to show up.

I do not understand why Zimmerman’s divorce is national news.

I do not understand why it was national news to hear that Zimmerman got a speeding ticket.

Media bias is not only putting a liberal spin on things, but also, the news judgement in deciding what stories to cover, and deciding what things are not newsworthy.

Some news directors somewhere, decided that this girl’s press conference was newsworthy.

Some news directors decided that it was headline news that Zimmerman was speeding.

Why do they push stories involving Zimmerman, one wonders.


13 posted on 09/12/2013 1:20:04 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Your questions answer themselves.


14 posted on 09/12/2013 1:22:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, that explains why there weren’t time or resources to cover the approx. 1 million bikers in DC in the media. With huge breaking news like this to cover, something just had to give.


15 posted on 09/12/2013 1:24:34 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

People don’t understand what it’s like to be pounded by the national press day after day. It will drive any one insane. Especially someone who has no real strong support outside of some bewildered family members. I remember what Linda Tripp went through.


16 posted on 09/12/2013 1:25:38 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Deb
Good grief. 'Modern Day Job' ping.

Remind me ... things turn out pretty good for Job in the end, right? Even a new wife?

17 posted on 09/12/2013 1:26:18 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They push the various problems this poor soul is experiencing to exacerbate the anti Zimmerman fanaticism alive in the black demographic and to pressure Zimmerman. The hope is Zimmerman can be pushed enough to do something really stupid and be put in jail with the general jail population where he can be “offed!”


18 posted on 09/12/2013 1:28:53 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

But, isn’t the media supposed to report the news, not make and create news events????? Maybe I’m hopelessly naive. After all, we’re talking about liberals here, as liberals run the media.


19 posted on 09/12/2013 1:32:25 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Servant of the Cross
Remind me ... things turn out pretty good for Job in the end, right? Even a new wife?

Things did turn out well for Job at the end. Even an implicit statement that his original ten children (the ones that died while they were having a party in the eldest son's double-wide trailer tornado magnet) 'live'... But it doesn't actually say that he got a new, and improved, wife at the end. I'll grant that his first (only?) wife was pretty bitter -- but given that she'd also lost her ten children, her wealth, and her husband was leprous (or smitten with some dreadful disease) - I can give her pass for having gone mad. So yes, Job had ten new children, and he was blessed after his season of trials and pain, but I don't believe it is explicitly stated that he got a new wife. Maybe wife number one was also blessed and recovered from her insanity.

20 posted on 09/12/2013 1:38:48 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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