A child "goes missing".
CNN cable host Nancy Grace is on the case.She gets the word out.
With victim advocates like Nancy, who needs Amber Alert?
We do.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, it must be a duck. Right?
The former prosecutor from Atlanta is one such duck.
Of the worst zealot type.
Extremist.
Crank.
Fanatic.
Nancy Grace, once on the path to academia as a Professor of Shakespearean literature, (which may serve to explain the over dramatic facial antics she exhibits on her show), stood at the crossroads of the rest of her life after the random murder of her fiancé. She used that pain as a drive to become a prosecutor and victims right advocate.
Admirable.
But pain and drive driven deep down inside festers a "pay back" sort of attitude that is constantly stoked by the heartfelt thanks of those who cannot advocate for themselves, those persons who share similar stories and mirror the same blinding pain of loss.
Add a bell, a dog, and a doggie snack, and you've got one helluva major conditioned salivation of a response that would cause Ivan Pavlov to take notice.
Pain and drive turned inside out looks a lot like zeal.
Zealots are created, a sort of post-traumatic stress over correction from a situation from which the predisposed person had no control.
A zealot is a zealot is a zealot.
Nancy can add zealot to her resume.
This is a woman who uses her platform to shrill the "Case of the Day" to the national level. Night after night, she harps whatever story that can be "caused" ad nauseam, pounding, pounding, pounding to a pulp those persons who make the unfortunate decision to appear on her show.
The tables have turned on Nancy.
Her cable show TV news pundit colleagues are now pounding her, asking for an explanation for her recent ambush interview of Melinda Duckett, a psychologically fragile 21-year old Florida mom whose two year old son went missing August 27.The boy, Trenton Duckett, disappeared from his bedroom at a Leesburg apartment complex where he lived with his mother. Police think he was taken through a hole cut in a window screen.
In the telephone interview, Duckett complained about her estranged husband, 21-year-old Joshua Duckett, and criticized the tactics of the police and news media.
Throughout the interview, Grace pounded and pounded and pounded the same question home.
Over and over and over.
Have you taken a polygraph?
Have you taken a polygraph?
Have you taken a polygraph?
Have you taken a polygraph?
Objection.
Badgering the "guest".
Duckett refused to answer questions about why she didn't take a polygraph test like the one her husband passed earlier in the week on the advise of her attorney, Kimberly Schulte.
Answer me! I Am Nancy Grace, Protector and Advocate of All Wronged by Circumstance.
Hear me roar!
Melinda Duckett ended the interview by handing the phone to her grandmother, who explained that the pressure is "just about more than she can handle right now."
Considering Duckett had just been publicly assassinated by self-appointed judge and jurist Nancy Grace, quite frankly, I’m surprised the young woman maintained on-air composure as well as she did.
Considering that within hours of the journalistic ambush, Melinda Duckett committed suicide.
One shot to the head.
The Grace interview aired after the discovery of Melissa's body.
Yep. Grace and the producers ran the story anyway.
A good old fashioned posthumous grilling.
As stated by Grace, "...I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett. The truth...is not always nice or polite or easy to go down. Sometimes it`s harsh, and it hurts. I`d like to also point out that Melinda committed suicide before that interview ever aired."
Grace continues to pound the story every night since Duckett's death.
Just fire up the barbie and rotisserie the deceased over the hot coals of “we’ll never know but let’s go ahead and surmise anyway.”
The latest topic of discussion among the Disgrace Crowd is that Duckett sold her child.
CALLER: "Since she tried to sell his car seat, do you think it`s a good possibility she -- she sold him?"
GRACE: "You know what, Ella (ph)? That thought has crossed my mind more than once. Let`s go out to Mike Brooks, former FBI. Mike, what can you tell us about the possibility this child was actually sold?"
MIKE BROOKS, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: "There`s always that possibility. I mean, there is a big market all over this country for young children, like Trenton. But, you know, it`s hard to tell whether or not he was sold. Putting together the timeline, Nancy, is going to be crucial, because that is going to tell them exactly where he was between 4:00 p.m. on August 26 and 9:00 p.m. on August 27, when his mother reported him missing.
And, no, she wasn`t cooperating with police. She wouldn`t take a polygraph. And, you know, to me, that says a lot. You know, by her not saying anything, to me, that says quite a bit.
But the possibility of him being sold, that`s -- that`s one of the things they should be looking into, if they`re not. And, you know, her computer will hold a lot. And the FBI unit up in Quantico that deals specifically with these kind of things, they are some of the best in the business. And they will go back on that hard drive, and they will look at every piece of communication, every key type on that particular computer, and they will come up with something, if there`s any evidence to be found in that -- inside that hard drive."
Cable broadcast paparazzi scavengers.
It's high time CNN explored their contract options with Nancy Grace and hold her accountable for the result of her unethical and unprofessional actions that resulted in the suicide of Melinda Duckett.
