Posted on 09/07/2005 1:41:19 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Autumn is almost upon us, and we face the feverish yet dreary spectacle of ever more reality and talk shows. Television's marketplace is busy peddling some of the hoariest of myths and types.
My breaking point may have come this summer watching Nancy Grace of CNN Headline News hector and flirt with her guests, while consistently dropping her legal credentials as a social climber drops names.
Nancy Grace belongs to a group of women who play host or make guest appearances on talk shows and write articles and books. Along with commentators like Ann Coulter and Laura Schlessinger, she has brought one of our oldest female characters, The Shrew, back to the culture.
The Shrew used to be a staple of mass entertainment. She was the pushy wife who drove her husband out of the home or behind the newspaper. She was the spinster who hectored neighbors and schoolchildren. She was plain and sexually deprived.
No more. These women specialize in perfect maariages, idealized lovers and good sex. When they argue, their voices rise to the 'shrill' notes once ascribed only to feminists.
Maybe there's a certain irony in what might be called the power of a woman's influence though. Now, commenators like Bill O'Reilly and Tucker Carlson are adapting shrewishness and hysteria to a manly style.
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With a face like that I can see why
That lady has been whooped with a big ugly stick!!
Nancy Grace from Court TV. Former prosecutor, Atlanta.......
Former prosecutor - that explains it!
Kinda shows in her "cross" examinations............!
Ann Coulter is not a shrew.
Shrewd, perhaps.
Nancy became a feared, no BS killer instinct prosecutor following the heartbreak of the murder of her fiance.
She never lost a case.
Margo is out of her weight class.
God Bless Nancy Grace, she is a genuine American hero, on a mission. May her heart eventually heal.
I hope this great lady inspires many young men and women to pursue justice with the same inspired single minded passion
and determination she embodies.
But she's no longer a prosecutor, she's a TV personality...........
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