Until yesterday afternoon, I had never heard of Casey Anthony. Honest. My information intake is carefully crafted to give me every scrap of news from the TV industry, some sports news, Twitter’s trending topics, the front page of the New York Post, and more dog and cat pictures than you can possibly imagine. If it’s serious news, I won’t learn about it unless it becomes a meme.
…which, as you can here, it has. Again, I’m barely versed in the Anthony trial — I haven’t even backtracked through the case like Darnell Dockett has – but I know enough to understand that Michael C. Hall’s Dexter hunts down killers who escape the justice system. I’m not sure how much Showtime wants to do the “ripped from the headlines” thing that “Law & Order” did so well, but I suspect it would make for a very short season of “Dexter.”
Bonus Casey Anthony TV news: Below, Jay Leno’s monologue joke comparing the Anthony jury to Obama’s economic team is met with stony silence from the crowd (fast forward to 1:15). Mmmm, that’s good schadenfreude.
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Oy! Had to listen to over a 1:30 of Leno just to hear the awkward silence. A suggested time would be awesome next time for Leno.
I was really hoping for footage of Nancy Grace’s head exploding in rage, but this will do.
If I was independently wealthy and had no real daily obligations like work or errands, I would probably spend most of my time working up 5000 word passion pieces about what an utter, vile piece of shit Nancy Grace is. I’m not even joking. Go ahead, someone give me $20 million and call my bluff. I dare you.
@DG, how much for a 500 word passion piece? Seriously, Nancy Grace is a terrible person.
No, no, Jay. They heard the joke.
And I’ll kick in for the Nancy Grace piece too. What a vile piece of shit.
Who actually watches Nancy Grace anyway? I do not know a single person, regardless of gender, race, political affiliation, social class, or profession who can stand her.
I will throw in some dough for some well deserved Nacy Grace hate. Also Matt don’t feel bad, I too had no flipping clue what a Casey Anothy was till yesterday.
Did the mic go out?
No joke about Ohio/Florida, Matt?
Terrible story though. How they found her innocent I don’t know, but as a father, reading the stories makes my skin crawl.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t know who Casey Anthony was. Then again, I don’t know who Nancy Grace is either.
@0tarin
“I don’t know who Nancy Grace is either.”
I envy you sir!
My hipster buddy knew Casey when she had a kid and was totally underground, now her kid is
To the person who wrote this useless blog: If you don’t know any thing about the Casey Anthony trial, why are you commentating on it??? I’m so tired of sifting through worthless opinions of the blissfully ignorant.
@monstermomcasey
Glad to see you spending your time surfing for blog entries about Casey Anthony. Shouldn’t you toddle off back to the couch, grab some bon bons, and watch your stories?
My guess is Matt wrote an entry on this because of three reasons:
1) This was a rather big TV story, albeit TV news.
2) This is a TV blog.
3) As a TV blog, it would be remiss of him to mention Casey Anthony, even if it was only a “I don’t know anything about this story, even if it is major TV story.”
@monstermomcasey is right in time for the discussion of useless opinions AND grating people!
To the person who wrote this useless blog: If you don’t know any thing about the Casey Anthony trial, why are you commentating on it???
Yeah, why aren’t you speakating on some thing you knowate more about, Smart Guy?
If you think Casey Anthony fits Dexter’s ‘code’, you should read this: [wp.me]
@no heddard
+1 to you sir
Gee I can name a few utter vile pieces of shit Casey Anthony, her lawyers, Cindy Anthony, the jurors, and anyone who supports her