Back From Retirement?

Ok, I really shouldn’t be doing this because I have plenty to work on, but I had to take 15 minutes to return from retirement because I’m pretty livid about the news.

Yes, that’s right, JonBenet Ramsey has brought me out of retirement; at least momentarily!

Can someone explain to me how JonBenet EVER became national news? Do you know how many young little girls are (sadly and disgustingly) murdered each year? As if it wasn’t bad enough that the case made huge headlines last decade, a whole 10 years after the story was national news, this “not national news story” was exhumed and made national news because some creep (WHO OBVIOUSLY WASN’T THE KILLER!) claimed he loved JonBenet and accidentally killed her.

To be fair, I certainly think that the little girl's death was tragic, and I don’t want to diminish it at all, but I do want to call attention to the fact that this WAS NEVER NATIONAL NEWS.

So you already know what I think…this was just another instance proving that America’s worst nightmare isn’t Terrorism, Budget Deficits, The Axis of Evil, Cuts in Education Funding, Social Security, or Health Care: America’s worst nightmare is the murder or kidnapping of Blonde Hair, Blue-Eyed White Women…well at least the murder or kidnapping of a White Woman (White Girls included).

And even the most reputable, in my opinion, of News Reporters’ fell victim to reporting on this case. I was incredibly disheartened when even Anderson Cooper, whom I really respect, had this JonBenet garbage as his lead story for several nights over the course of the last couple of weeks on CNN.

So I’m calling on the media in this country to be responsible and to think. I knew this guy wasn’t the killer when his ex-wife (who actually hates him) said that he was with her and the kids every Christmas during their marriage, including the Christmas that JonBenet was killed. Furthermore, there was never any record of this man ever being in Colorado. I mean, seriously, there was not a shred of credibility to any of his claims, and yet the dumb Boulder, Colorado District Attorney tried to make a case out of this, and the media slurped it up like it was a bowl of hot chili in Antarctica.

Meanwhile, there are very serious issues going on in this country as well as around the world that actually matter and should actually be reported on. Notice how JonBenet trumped the War in Lebanon, Iran, the War in Iraq, the War in Afghanistan, an unstable stock market, and even Hurricane Katrina’s 1-year anniversary coverage.

How ironic that last year I wrote (October 25, 2005) about how I was angry that the lead story on Fox News, the Thursday after Katrina hit, was about Natallee Holloway while Tens of Thousands of people were suffering through a lack of governmental response in New Orleans and the Gulf States. Different girl, but with the same “paint-job,” eliciting the same stupid-media response. That is no coincidence, but it is a shame.

I still think there is something foul in the water in the State of Colorado (see my blog from March 8, 2005), and I still think the media is failing in their duty to report on stories of importance to the populace (see my blogs from May 1, 2006, March 30, 2005 and Jan 1, 2006).

Ok, my 15 minutes are up, have a nice day!

-Maelstrom