[TomGuy]

I didn't catch the full exchange, but did catch Philips saying that too much (media) attention had been paid to this one case when there are many other missing person cases that go unnoticed.

I have to agree with him.

Later in an interview with Natalee's uncle, Huddy asked why this case had 'caught the Nation's attention' so much.

[My immediate response was 'slow news day and pitbulls like Greta grabbed on and won't let it go'. The case became known just about the time the Scot Peterson case was being adjudicated, and Greta needed new material. Again, I have to side with Philips -- how many others have disappeared (even since Natalee did) and have received only scant, if any, media notice? I can't help but think Natalee may have been kidnapped and sold into white slavery, since there appears to be little indication of her being killed. Aruba apparently has a history of being connected with white slavery traders.]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I give you high marks for independence of mind. But do you think it was appropriate for Phillips to play the race card in the way he did, suggesting that the search for a white girl gets attention while the pleas of the mother of a missing black girl allegedly were ignored?