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"It's just unforgivable the amount of vitriol that has come from her show (and) that has now permeated the entire channel. (It left) no room....for anything other than a guilty verdict" with comments like:
"I believe that Caylee's body was in (Anthony's) car trunk for a period of days." When her trial began, she insulted her with epithets like "tot mom," saying "all the adjectives were there. Trial of the decade. Trial of the century. First trial of the social media age....by all accounts the most fascinating trial the American public has ever witnessed," downplaying CNN's hatchet-job on OJ Simpson and others instead of letting due process and judicial fairness do their job, right or wrong.
Like other sensationalist journalist/commentators, Grace called Anthony's case "our daily dialogue. The tragic story of Caylee's death....is our national discourse....(We're) riveted by the Casey Anthony story. Riveted because we know it already....The devil is dancing," pronouncing her guilty by accusation nightly because America's media say so, her in particular, as well as New York Times writer Frank Bruno.
On July 9, he headlined, "A Sordid Cast Around Casey Anthony," claiming "in all likelihood (she) bore responsibility for her 2-year-old daughter's death, but will never pay for that particular crime...."
However, at trial, he acknowledged that "there simply wasn't enough lucid, specific proof that (she) murdered her little girl," short of admitting jurors perhaps were right.
Not satisfied, Bruno added "she may not be stuck in jail, but she'll be stuck with herself, and will serve (that) kind of life sentence....I suspect she'll be tripped up anew by her narcissism, dishonesty and icy heart. They'll doom her. They just don't happen to be grounds for a murder conviction."
On June 16, Time magazine writer John Cloud headlined, "How the Casey Anthony Murder Case Became the Social-Media Trial of the Century," saying:
"....(V)irtually no one doubts that Anthony was involved in her child's death. (She's) a tenacious liar. (The) court of social-media opinion (is) enraged." A typical Facebook message said: "think im gonna puke in my mouth over them trying to get an 'aquittal shes GAULITY GAULITY GAULITY (sic)!!! Justice for Caylee."
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