Breaking down the Casey Anthony trial...
I used to listen to Loveline all the time when I was late teens and early twenties. For those of you who are not familiar, Loveline is a radio show that gives advice about life, love, sex, and health to teenagers. The hosts were Adam Carolla, a hilarious comedian, and Dr. Drew (Pinsky), a "board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist". The dynamic between the two was incredible. The show was immensely entertaining and informative at the same time.
Carolla left the show to pursue other comedy career avenues in 2005, but Dr. Drew still hosts Loveline with a different sidekick. Dr. Drew has recently expanded to host a few television shows (one of which is on CNN's "HLN", the Headline News Network). The two recently reunited on an episode of Carolla's podcast and were discussing the now-ubiquitous Casey Anthony trial.
Dr. Drew was lamenting about how HLN had become the "Casey Anthony Channel" (an accurate observation, by the way) when Adam began one of his signature rants about how it seems that certain people, predominately women of higher socio-economical status, seem to obsess over the coverage, a part of which I have transcribed here:Here's the society we've crafted: we have a bunch of women and at a certain age they have kids. And the women that are poor are busy. They've got to go to work. They're cleaning houses and busing tables and flipping burgers and doing their thing. Then there's a whole subset group--a subset of women--who don't have a ton on their plate. Those women then stare at TV shows about other women who have done horrible things to their kids. Then they replace those women with themselves and they just sit there shaking their heads. "I could NEVER do that to my child. Never."
Of course you couldn't.
And [CNN legal analyst and host] Nancy Grace always sits there and she's always saying, "I cannot believe that this woman--knowing that her daughter was rotting in the trunk of an Oldsmobile!--went out and entered herself in a wet T-shirt contest!"
And it's like, "Yeah. There are f*cked up people. Don't you know that?"
Carolla then asks the doctor what exactly the story is all about as he is unfamiliar with the details since he doesn't watch the coverage. Drew's reply:Here is the story as I understand it: lying, lying, bullsh*tting, obfuscating, dissimulating, and then lying, lying, lying, lying, and lying.
Nice.
[Note: The podcast can currently be accessed here. The portion to which I referred is roughly between the 9:15 and 12:30 marks.]
Carolla left the show to pursue other comedy career avenues in 2005, but Dr. Drew still hosts Loveline with a different sidekick. Dr. Drew has recently expanded to host a few television shows (one of which is on CNN's "HLN", the Headline News Network). The two recently reunited on an episode of Carolla's podcast and were discussing the now-ubiquitous Casey Anthony trial.
Dr. Drew was lamenting about how HLN had become the "Casey Anthony Channel" (an accurate observation, by the way) when Adam began one of his signature rants about how it seems that certain people, predominately women of higher socio-economical status, seem to obsess over the coverage, a part of which I have transcribed here:Here's the society we've crafted: we have a bunch of women and at a certain age they have kids. And the women that are poor are busy. They've got to go to work. They're cleaning houses and busing tables and flipping burgers and doing their thing. Then there's a whole subset group--a subset of women--who don't have a ton on their plate. Those women then stare at TV shows about other women who have done horrible things to their kids. Then they replace those women with themselves and they just sit there shaking their heads. "I could NEVER do that to my child. Never."
Of course you couldn't.
And [CNN legal analyst and host] Nancy Grace always sits there and she's always saying, "I cannot believe that this woman--knowing that her daughter was rotting in the trunk of an Oldsmobile!--went out and entered herself in a wet T-shirt contest!"
And it's like, "Yeah. There are f*cked up people. Don't you know that?"
Carolla then asks the doctor what exactly the story is all about as he is unfamiliar with the details since he doesn't watch the coverage. Drew's reply:Here is the story as I understand it: lying, lying, bullsh*tting, obfuscating, dissimulating, and then lying, lying, lying, lying, and lying.
Nice.
[Note: The podcast can currently be accessed here. The portion to which I referred is roughly between the 9:15 and 12:30 marks.]