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| Jon Bennet Crap |
| 08.19.06 (12:17 pm) [edit] |
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I feel almost ashamed that I am doing this. But I have to get it out.
This story has been front page, top fold news for two days now, maybe three, haven't seen the paper yet. Right inside the grocery store is a newstand with the SF Chronicle on it. As I was obligatorily taking women out to their cars they would comment on guy, who confessed, whatever his name is, and how horrible that he did that and isn't it awful. At this point, I'm holding back and just showing that I am listening because people don't really want to know what I think. So, some observations: I caught part of Inside Edition about this guy, and they had all this interviews and "experts." Essentially, rather than seeming to present the issue fairly, they were already setting him up to be the villian. This is interesting because the newspapers are saying there are a few holes in his story. I think people want him, or somebody else, to be guilty just so the gruesome tale has a quasi-happy ending in which the villian gets his in the end. We love our heroes, and hate our villians. That's all there is. Either you're Superman or you're Lex Luthor, there is no in between. And everybody loves a happy ending, right? If it is him, or they do ever find who it is, he will probably get the death penalty, simply because of the high-profile nature of the case. People have all of a sudden forgotten that although the Ramseys may be innocent, they still exploited their daughter with all those beauty pagents, and maybe, if this guy is the real deal, she wouldn't've died because she would have been at home doing normal kid shit instead of dressing in sexy costumes and acting like a grown up. This is going to be all we'll hear about for the next 6 months. I'll bet all those entertainment magazines were pissed that they have to wait a week to make this their cover story; The Mel Gibson thing is getting old. Incidentally, only will rich and famous celebrities be sentenced to rehab instead of the jailtime they deserve. On that note, yes it is sad when anybody kills somebody, especially a little kid, or a pregnant wife. But let's be totally and completely honest. People kids/women/people get murdered, and raped every day. I'm not exactly sure why some stories about semi-average people like this capture our attention and some don't. But let's be honest, if the Ramseys hadn't been rich and white, this would barely be a story for the local news. If they had been poor and/or a minority, we wouldn't be told to care. The second-to-last thing I will say about all this is, I'm glad this story is front-page everything. I was tired of hearing about that silly ol' war, and the hundreds of people that die everyday, and all that other depressing stuff. I'm glad I have the unfortunate death of a cute white girl to focus on now. The last thing I will say about this relates to a realization I had about the movie Little Miss Sunshine. The whole show is about a trip to a beauty pagent from Alberqueque to Southern California for the title beauty pagent. Olive, the seven-year-old contestant is a very average girl, so average in fact, that she is truly not like these other Ramsey-type litterally airbrushed girls with "come hither looks," and sexy costumes. Yet nobody is offended. For unremarkable Olive's climatic talent (no pun intended) she does the striptease dance to Superfreak that her grandfather taught her. Of course everyone is outraged. I guess it's supposed to be ironic like that. All this makes me wish I had my comic stip now. The comic strip will either be called 2060, the year in which the story takes place, or it will be called Jugger-Mart, the last remaining retail outlet having just bought out the second-to-last one, Home Despot. Please somebody tell me you at least get one of those! I said Jugger-Mart to my boyfriend and he didn't get it. See, I told you nobody cares about what I think. Because they don't want my seemingly-cold and cynical outlook on the whole thing. |
posted by: Jeremy (reply)
post date: 08.19.06 (6:50 pm)
There are probably plenty of people that would get that either. Why do you have to post everything this poor under-a-rock country boy doesnt get???
posted by: Rose (reply)
post date: 08.23.06 (4:15 pm)
Seek counseling for the hatred you have
posted by: Krista (reply)
post date: 08.30.06 (6:08 am)
You are intitled to your opinion. And I read it carefully. But all I got from it is an uneducated, self absorbed babble. I don't necessarily disagree with some of your opinions, but your delivery is ignorant.
posted by: Krista (reply)
post date: 08.30.06 (6:08 am)
You are intitled to your opinion. And I read it carefully. But all I got from it is an uneducated, self absorbed babble. I don't necessarily disagree with some of your opinions, but your delivery is ignorant.
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