The Knox case

[anarky]

Anyone else been rather annoyed by the way the news has been reporting on this?

For the longest time, there's been this major slant to the reporting: "How dare these furners try an American citizen for a crime?" It's like the media's been trying to imply, because she's American, the victim was English, and the court is Italian, she's automatically innocent, because Americans don't do crazy things like get plastered and abuse and kill their roommates... or walk into coffee shops and shoot four police officers, or anything like that. Not like the Italian court system is anything civilized or sophisticated or anything like that; I mean, it was the Americans who essentially wiped out the Mafia in the 1980s, right?

But the evidence, damn, I don't know that I've seen a case as open-and-shut as this. And, now that the jury found her guilty, a lot of the news coverage is focusing on how unfair this was, and how she shouldn't be in jail.... Never mind that, with the same evidence, she would've been convicted in the US courts and more quickly in the US media, and would've gotten the death penalty instead of 26 years. She can still have kids when she gets out, for Christ's sake. Quit your bitching, Mom and Dad. I know you don't like her being in prison in another country, but she brought it on herself, and at least your daughter's not the dead one. Shut the fuck up and accept that your brat is a bad egg.

The same media that blasts another country's justice system (and not like this is Singapore, where some guy's getting caned for spraypainting something) insinuates that Roman Polanski shouldn't be held accountable for abusing a girl and skipping out on his trial simply because he was able to evade for thirty years and made some good movies in that time, or that have to call the Fort Hood shooter an "alleged" shooter because he hasn't had a trial yet.

Man, we're fucked up sometimes.

[Ran]

That's why I don't watch the news anymore. It's just too annoying.

[Ran]

Sort of news related. Flipping through the channels, I happened to stop on "Fox News". Even though I'm more Libertarian, I lean conservative than liberal and these fuckers at Fox scare the hell out of me. I stumbled onto this bizarre moment on the "news". What's funny is that Glen Beck was on the Bill O'Reily show. Beck is so out there, he makes Bill O'Reilly sound rational. O'Reilly admitted that the rest of the world likes Obama, and that's a good thing for the USA. Beck adamantly disagreed, flipped flopped, Bill called him on it, than disagreed again. They talked for a few minutes, then they went to commercial and it was for ShamWow. I changed the channel and didn't go back.

I'm troubled because I can't decide which is the strangest part:
-Bill O'Reilly sounding rational
-Bill O'Reilly saying Obama was good
-or the odd placement of the ShamWow commercial.

[anarky]

Glenn Beck would be really fucking funny, if people didn't believe him.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

They could use a ShamWow to mop up Glenn Beck's constant fake tears.