Larry Doyle: Why Hasn't Nancy Grace Been Fired?

She's untruthful, unethical, hateful and often wrong. She makes America worse. Can her.

There she went again, smearing her vile invective across our screens, diminishing us all as human beings.

Poking her stink finger into another none-of-her-business, Nancy Grace managed to make the death of Whitney Houston somehow more tawdry. "I'd like to know," the HLN host spew mused last week, "who let her slip or pushed her underneath that water." She later unapologized on Good Morning America, regarding Dan Abrams appeals to decency as "arguing with me over semantics," accusing him of having gone to Harvard Law School and defending her blithe murder charges with her go-to pretense: "I still want the truth."

The truth, to Nancy Grace, is whatever is handy and profitable. Her truth was that Gary Condit murdered Chandra Levy. Her truth was that the Duke lacrosse team raped Crystal Gail Mangum. Her truth was that Richard Ricci kidnapped Elizabeth Smart (when it later became true he did not, but had unfortunately died in custody, Grace said, "I'm not going on a guilt trip.")

When she isn't convicting people on spec, Grace spreads ugliness, fetishizing the disappearances of young white women and small white children, asking questions that not only don't need to be asked (by her) but wouldn't have been allowed when she was a prosecutor -- as she should recall, having had two convictions thrown out by the Supreme Court of Georgia, once for insinuating unrelated rapes and murders into her closing arguments, and in the second instance being reprimanded, "the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable."

Grace has imported her injudicious style to television journalism, where it is also unethical, it may surprise you to learn. "I think she has managed to demean both professions with her hype, rabid persona, and sensational analysis," Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University, told the New York Times last May. The professor is being too kind. Grace's verdict first, trial afterward judicial philosophy "erodes the respect for basic rights," as Turley says, but she also corrodes justice itself. Called on her pre-evidentiary convictions, Grace is quick to get technical, to point out that only a jury has the power to convict, but woe to the jury that disobeys her. When 12 people weighed actual evidence and determined Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her daughter, Grace declared that little white Caylee's "death has gone unavenged." Did you hear that, loyal, rabid viewers?

And to justice, add truth to Grace's swath of destruction. Her every vehement assertion that later proves false feeds into the fashionable but dangerous notion that the mainstream media cannot be trusted; her connect-any-dots arguments (All the evidence always points to the guilt of whomever is in her eyeline) promotes a cognitive approach favored by conspiracy thinkers. She's not terribly bright, and she's contagious.

Nancy Grace is a blight on cable television; she is bad for civilization.

She's entitled to her opinions, of course, but in a truly just world, she would be spouting them from a dark sticky corner in some sour rathole. Pat Buchanan might even buy her a beer.

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Nancy Grace Defends Whitney Houston Comments, Gets Served by Dan Abrams on GMA

Dan Abrams is our new hero.

The Good Morning America host remained calm and reasonable in the face of Nancy Grace's condescending absurdity today, as he tried to get Grace to admit that she shouldn't have wondered about whether or not someone pushed Whitney Houston's body under water in her hotel room last Saturday.

What prompted Grace to hint at that possibility? Nothing in this case, merely her experience as an attorney overall, which gives her a unique view on what comes next.

Nancy Grace on Good Morning America

"There is nothing delicate or nice about a murder, a death, an unexpected death, or an autopsy," Grace said. "What that means in the real world, not the ivory tower of Harvard Law School... an autopsy, of why her body was transported to the Coroner's Office, is to determine cause of death whether it be overdose, natural causes, accident, or homicide. It is not a homicide and I am thankful for that, but I still want the truth."

Okay. That makes her the same as about 100 million other Americans.

Why utter a word about anyone shoving Whitney's head under water? Abrams tried to get his guest to focus on this specific question.

"I'm arguing with you over going on television and making a comment that I think was rightfully viewed as inappropriate," he says in the video above. "And sometimes there's a time to say 'you know what, I shouldn't have said that in retrospect. A nicer way to say that, or a more accurate way to say that, would have been x, y, or z.'"

Of course, Grace remained obstinate, and Robin Roberts ended the segment with a simple, obvious point. Well... an obvious point to anyone not looking cash in on a well-publicized death.

Why not just wait until the autopsy results are released before commenting at all?

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Nancy Grace’s Nipple Slip Traumatized Kids | The Smoking Gun

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The fleeting appearance of Nancy Grace’s right nipple during a recent “Dancing with the Stars” episode prompted about a dozen viewers to write the Federal Communications Commission to beef about the prime time wardrobe malfunction.
The indecency complaints, a selection of which you’ll find here, were received by the FCC following the September 26 broadcast of the hit ABC program. At the conclusion of Grace’s Quickstep performance with partner Tristan MacManus, the HLN host’s breast migrated out of the top of her dress.

This brief exposure prompted some Americans to contact the FCC to express their outrage (though it is hard to tell which correspondents were writing solely for the laughs). The complaints were released today by the FCC in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The names of complainants were redacted by agency officials.

Angered that Grace “displayed her pornographic breast and nipple on national television,” a Los Angeles resident argued that she and ABC should be “fined for this disgusting and godless display.” Writing from Arlington, Virginia, another viewer charged that Grace knew that her breast might pop out. When Grace’s “nipple private" emerged, the viewer added, it “scared my children.”

Another “Dancing” fan stated, “I want action!!! I am so offended to see her boob, my kids are traumatized. I want action against her and this network!!!” Also concerned for underage viewers, a Houston, Texas resident wrote, “Exposed female nipple during a time when my kids were watching. Completely unacceptable.”
A New Yorker concluded that Grace’s nip slip was “clearly done on purpose to generate news stories and interest in the show.”

Other FCC complaints show that viewers of the celebrity dance competition were miffed about other non-mammary matters. Referring to Chaz Bono as a “confused person,” one viewer wrote that they were “tired of the homosexual community trying to normalize their abnormal behavior” and would “not watch this show now and forever because they crossed the last line for me.” A few viewers did not like Kristin Cavallari’s use of the word “bitch,” while a Cantonment, Florida man thought the program was “vulgar especially as it relates to their scant costumes.”

Watch Monday night's 'DWTS' shockers

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There are always a few shocking moments worth watching or re-watching on “Dancing With the Stars.” For those who missed Monday night’s action, or for those who would just like to relieve the performance show’s jaw-droppers before Tuesday night’s results are announced, here’s a rundown of the memorable moments.

The first must-see clip is the buzzed about wardrobe malfunction from prosecutor-turned-TV-host-turned-unwitting-flasher Nancy Grace.

Host Tom Bergeron gave Grace a heads up on the nip slip. He also got in a couple of quick zingers in before throwing to the judges.

“That’s all right,” Bergeron said. “On the European version, that would be perfectly fine. Come on over here, Miss Kitty.”