I should have fallen under the swoon of Nancy Grace from the first cockeyed, pursed lipped, scowling moment she came onto my TV screen. After all, she is tiny (always a plus-TV adds 10 – 15 pounds)-and to some folk’s eyes, attractive and she hails from Georgia. I have become a re-born Southerner, so reformed and retooled concerning my heritage that I am unable to see a red neck when I encounter one. Tabula rasa guides me and my thoughts daily. (Have they started to play the ‘rededicate your life to Christ’ hymn yet?). Now that I have set the stage let me enter left to let you know my answer to my question.
Nancy Grace had a very unfortunate thing happen to her eons ago-her fiancée was murdered and she helped put the perpetrator in prison. And she has gone on a tear ever since to see someone guilty of murder and mayhem with her one-sided, scurrilous remarks to her guests trying to let the viewer know what were the circumstances of a crime, who, if anyone, has been charged and what would be the prison sentence if found guilt. There was a case where a mother was accused of killing her infant and hiding the body. Nancy so viciously blamed the mother that the mother committed suicide. It was later determined that the woman did not murder her infant child.
Watch five minutes and see her cock her head and growl at guests who even hint that a suspect might not be guilty. See her broad brush the charges to fit someone who has been arrested. I am not saying that perpetrators should get away with murder or not to examine evidence closely and judiciously, but we are seeing to many innocent, mostly men, be freed from prison because an attorney or Common Cause judicial type used DNA to prove that they had been wrongly accused, tried and sentenced to prison or oftentimes to death row.
Friends of mine and I say that Nancy Grace is strapping these defendants into the electric chair before most of them have been formally changed. She seems to take the stance that, ‘so we make a few mistakes-so what?; we need to make sure no one gets away with murder.’ And I say to her, “Nancy Grace, you are getting away with murder-you are condemning suspects before they have had their day in court. And you do what you do because your Network brass likes the ratings. Have you no shame? Change diapers off camera and find a bit of compassion and open-mindedness when you oversee crimes and criminals with authoritative guests who need to be heard unlegislated by you. Did you know that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who wrote Death and Dying, said that all of us are capable of murder? Fall asleep tonight with that thought, your Grace.”
I am outing slanted journalism and those who practice it. Bill O’Reilly should allow both sides of an issue to be heard. Nancy Grace should look within herself and change whatever has caught her logic on a fish hook and be more open to all the evidence. You can call Bill and Nancy entertainment, but I think of each as an abomination.
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About Albert Clayton Gaulden
Transpersonal psychologist, astro-intuitive, author, lecturer, spiritual life coach and founding director of the Sedona Intensive, www.sedonaintensive.com, Albert Clayton Gaulden has influenced countless individuals from all walks of life-actors, athletes, financial specialists, teachers, families, psychologists and psychiatrists-from all corners of the earth-helping them to retrieve their authentic selves and to tap into the inner core of their power. Albert’s unique gift in the field of Transpersonal Psychology is responsible for his fearlessness when confronting the client’s inner conflicts. In his recent book You’re Not Who You Think You Are, Gaulden writes “Men and women are the same; each of us needs to get in touch with our invisible partner, or shadow in order to be emotionally healthy and happy.”
