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Nancy Grace Defends Her Controversial Comments About Whitney Houston

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HLN host Nancy Grace staunchly defended controversial comments she recently made regarding the death of superstar Whitney Houston.

While reporting live from Los Angeles, Grace appeared on CNN on Monday and said she wanted to know, "who let her slip, or pushed her, underneath that water?" She added, "Apparently, no signs of force or trauma to the body. Who let Whitney Houston go under her water?"

Grace appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday. Host Robin Roberts said that Grace had "stirred up a hornets nest" and "angered a lot of people" with her comments. GMA legal analyst Dan Abrams clashed with Grace and thought she should apologize for what he called inappropriate speculation. Read more;

 

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Jerry Verlinger

Abrams said that this was "not the reality of this particular investigation." Grace said that he was arguing with her about "semantics."

Personally I would rather suffer through a dinner with Genn Beck before I would have a cup of coffee with Nasty Grace.

  • 21 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:18 AM EST
ombra

In her case, sometimes it's not even what she says as how she says it. Her voice could make the sweetest poetry turn into a nightmare for your ears.

  • 13 votes
#1.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:22 AM EST
Happily BLUE in Ohio

Nancy Grace is a loser looking for attention. She's on the same train as Sarah Failin. A tad smarter, but anything for the media to look her way.

  • 12 votes
#1.2 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:51 AM EST
Arieus

This woman has no respect for anyone. She just likes to push buttons to generate ratings for her sorry azz.

She needs to go, and hopefully this will get her removed from CNN.

She's always speculating and convicting people of crimes before they even go to trial. How the hell can a person get a fair trial if they are a jury member that watches Nancy Grace.

Cancel her program and toss her to the FOX cesspool along with all the other cesspool swimmers.

  • 10 votes
#1.3 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:52 AM EST
Night Hawk

But people just keep watching her. People just like having someone to be pissed off at or then there are those that believe her, I mean come on, how many people hate Rush and will not let a day go by without hearing him, but hey they do hate him. You get rid of people like this by not reading about them , hearing anything they say. No public no advertising no show

  • 5 votes
#1.4 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:58 AM EST
redphish

Personally I would rather suffer through a dinner with Genn Beck before I would have a cup of coffee with Nasty Grace.

Absolutely. Beck is a misguided zealot. Grace is an arrogant, self-righteous bitch who doesn't care that she can turn the life of anyone she decides is guilty of a crime upside down. She was a loose cannon as a prosecutor but at least then, she could be held accountable. As a talking head, she has no such accountability. She's free to destroy as many lives as she pleases. The woman is evil.

  • 8 votes
#1.5 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:10 AM EST
Buckeye Voter

Nancy Grace is a ghoul. She imagines foul play where none is in evidence.

  • 9 votes
#1.6 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:15 AM EST
Fred Evil

Nancy Grace is a ghoul.

Spot on! She thrives on others misery and misfortune. People like her are precisely the reason we presume innocence, because in her eyes everyone is guilty.

  • 8 votes
#1.7 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:04 AM EST
Adler315

What we see and hear in the broadcast media today is, for the most part, neither responsible and intelligent professional journalism nor rational and insightful commentary. It's a predatory act. These people are hyenas—just scavengers on the prowl, following their baser instincts, vying for supremacy and immediate gratification.

  • 3 votes
#1.8 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:43 AM EST
Roy-933464

I lost count of the number of times that I've clicked on a CNN article only to discover it was under Nancy Grace's show. No thanks. My entire mood changes. As i'm scurrying for the exit, I get this nearly uncontrollable urge to gouge my eyes out at the sound of her voice. That woman is a vile creature.

  • 5 votes
#1.9 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:24 PM EST
MJL-3

I can not stand Nancy Grace. I swear to god , with some of @!$%# she says, she is related to Bachman or Palin

  • 6 votes
#1.10 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:54 PM EST
Happily BLUE in Ohio

how many people hate Rush and will not let a day go by without hearing him, but hey they do hate him.

No one I know does that. If I knew someone who did, I would steer clear of a person who does something that crazy.

  • 5 votes
#1.11 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:46 PM EST
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MN American Mom

Someone needs to tell her to zip it. Man she just goes on a tangent and no one can get a word in edgewise. I would like to know why she is even on the air after verbally accusing and abusing that asian mom whose toddler was missing to the point that she committed suicide. Wonder how she wakes up daily and faces herself?

  • 8 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:26 AM EST
Jerry Verlinger

Wonder how she wakes up daily and faces herself?

She reminds herself how much she is being paid to be the most obnoxious person on television in the media.

  • 8 votes
#2.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:38 AM EST
redphish

Wonder how she wakes up daily and faces herself?

It's easy for someone who has no conscience to face themselves in the mirror after having done practically anything.

  • 6 votes
#2.2 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:47 AM EST
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MN American Mom

I thought Karma went full circle? I am starting to wonder if it does.

  • 8 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:41 AM EST
Jerry Verlinger

I thought Karma went full circle? I am starting to wonder if it does.

It does. It's just that sometimes it makes a pretty big circle before it comes back.

  • 1 vote
#3.1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:43 AM EST
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Fed up with Republicans

I think that the entire group of "hate peddlers" that became popular and made famous during the O.J.Simpson trial are beginning to lose their appeal.

  • 8 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:47 AM EST
CliffDogg

"hate peddlers" will never lose their appeal, at least not for 50% of the people. The intellectually lazy and ignorant find comfort in it.

  • 4 votes
#4.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:23 AM EST
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Defense Counsel

Hi Jerry. Haven't talked to you in awhile. Hope you have been well. :) Personally I would rather suffer through a dinner with Genn Beck before I would have a cup of coffee with Nasty Grace. You hit the nail on the head with that one. She is like a "pimp" and her "victims"are the prostitutes. One would think that eventually her candle would burn out. I actually get physically ill when I sit through more than 30 seconds of her "verbal diarrhea". Thanks for the article sir!!

  • 7 votes
Reply#5 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:54 AM EST
Jerry Verlinger

Your welcome DC, good to see you. I've been fine thanks. How about yourself?

Yeah, your right, it doesn't take much of her nasty, accusatory tone to make me pick up my clicker. HLN is only two clicks from CNN, which I watch most of the time, and I often go there to escape watching a commercial for the one thousandths time, but when her show is on, I usually prefer to go back and listen how an auto insurance company is going to save me $500 or find out what free duds I can get from Joesph A. Banks.

  • 1 vote
#5.1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:14 AM EST
Defense Counsel

I'm well Jerry. Busy working and writing. Don't forget "Coupon Suzy" or "It's time to get real about what goes on in the bathroom"(The toilet paper commercial). Actually the latter goes very well with the Nasty Grace show!! :)

  • 1 vote
#5.2 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:01 AM EST
Jerry Verlinger

"It's time to get real about what goes on in the bathroom"(The toilet paper commercial). Actually the latter goes very well with the Nasty Grace show!! :)

That's funny!

  • 1 vote
#5.3 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:32 PM EST
Defense Counsel

Hey Jerry!!! Glad you got a laugh out of it!! Take care my friend.

  • 3 votes
#5.4 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:17 AM EST
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Door King

She's after a Michael Jackson replay.

  • 5 votes
Reply#6 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:12 AM EST
Emmadadog

My facts are a little fuzzy because my head is this morning, but, Grace was brought up on charges, I believe 2 or 3 times for prosecutorial misconduct. If I remember right, more than once she refused/did not give the defense all of the evidence as the laws require her to.

This is not a woman who is to be trusted. She obviously will lie, cheat a/o steal her victories. She is not an advocate "for the victims" she creates victims.

  • 12 votes
Reply#7 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:13 AM EST
Brian-497171

Nancy Grace is a vampire pig.

  • 11 votes
Reply#8 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:37 AM EST
zapper45701

Am I the only that thinks Nancy Grace looks like she has a gob of s**t in her mouth? You know, the way it's always kind of puckered up?

A person can drown in a teaspoon of water.

No one is the bathroom with me when I bathe (usually). So, if I go under, that's the way it is.

The probable truth of the matter is that Ms. Houston drank too much and/or topped it off with a pill/drug dessert. Too much of bad things, and presto, Mr. Reaper comes in for a pickup. It's not really rocket science.

I'm sorry that someone with such talent and opportunity has died. However, I'm not surprised.

I think Nancy Grace likes to hear herself talk too much.

  • 6 votes
Reply#9 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:32 AM EST
OomYaaqub

drunks and junkies drown in bathtubs all the time. Nobody had anything to gain from her death. What a moronic jerk Nancy Graceless is--but then, people watch her so she's laughing all the way to the bank.

    #9.1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:31 AM EST
    Jerry Verlinger

    The probable truth of the matter is that Ms. Houston drank too much and/or topped it off with a pill/drug dessert. Too much of bad things, and presto, Mr. Reaper comes in for a pickup. It's not really rocket science.

    No, it's not rocket science, but it is speculation, which we are all allowed to do, and there is nothing wrong that, as long as we acknowledge we are speculating.

    What Miss Bitch did here was, offer up some wild speculation and then refuse to admit she was only speculating.

    Well, ABC's "Good Morning America" picked it up, The Huff Post picked it up, Newsvine picked it up, the ladies on "The View" discussed it, we're discussing it ..... so, mission accomplished .... chalk one up for the Nasties.

    • 1 vote
    #9.2 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:32 AM EST
    zapper45701

    @Jerry Verlinger: I used the word "probable" to denote my speculation. However, unlike Ms. Grace, I am not jumping to wild conclusions. Most events of this nature, as sad as they may be, are usually just what they seem. Who knows, or will ever know, all the moments and happenings leading up to anyone's untimely death? It's just sad all the way around.

    • 2 votes
    #9.3 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:08 AM EST
    Jerry Verlinger

    I used the word "probable" to denote my speculation.

    "Probable, "possible" or "alleged', are words rarely, if ever used, by Ms. Nasty

    • 1 vote
    #9.4 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:42 PM EST
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    bdebogota

    Nancy Grace is nuts, pure and simple. Rick Santorum is nuts, pure and simple. Ron Paul is nuts, pure and simple. Ditto for Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc. I have run out of words and patience and ability to try to place these lowlives in a light that assumes their sanity as a starting point for any discussion. No more. I have simply come to the inescapable conclusion that these people are nuts in their actions, words and thoughts and, as a result, in the future I will approach all their comments and beliefs from the simple standpoint that they are all just plain N-U-T-S nuts!

    • 3 votes
    Reply#10 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:53 AM EST
    Dog_Blue

    Don't forget Obama and Pelosi to say the least.

    • 3 votes
    #10.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:55 PM EST
    bdebogota

    Oh, thanks for reminding me. Included in the aforementioned nutjobs should be those who actually think they are sane.

      #10.2 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:14 PM EST
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      tesla013

      Odd this outpouring of love. Wasn't too long ago Whitney was the butt of many jokes and the object of derision after her interview on TV where she said something like 'I don't need/or use crack, crack is for poor people'. Something like that. In America we love to build these individuals up and enjoy their talents while they are riding high(no pun intended) and we revel in watching them fall from grace as well. This woman on CNN has a career based upon speculation.No one was howling for blood when she was speculating about Casey Anthony. Sometimes I wonder if we humans are not just hypocritical by nature.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#11 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:59 AM EST
      bdebogota

      Nancy Grace is an information arsonist. She takes news, sets it on fire, and then gets off when the ambulances and the fire engines arive on the scene to put out the fire she started. And then, when caught with the bottle of gasoline in one hand and a book of matches in the other, her defense is that she was simply providing a public service like any good reporter should. Anyone and any sponsor in any way remotely associated with this POS should be ashamed of themselves.

      • 7 votes
      Reply#12 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:14 AM EST
      Mighty Mouth

      She obviously knows something we don't know! - And like a pirhana on the downstream of US Television, her modus operandi is to seek and destroy for the love of a rating. Everybody knows what Grace is about - She'll never change, having no limits when it comes to her trademark style - her shameless self promotion. No doubt one day she'll go too far, and be 'hoisted on her own petard.'

      • 4 votes
      Reply#13 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:15 AM EST
      Mofongo

      As far as I'm concerned, Nancy Grace needs to start by defending her existence on this planet.

      I view her as what Newt Gingrich would be as a transexual.

      Still fat, still angry, with boobs and longer hair but just as clueless.

      • 5 votes
      Reply#14 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:19 AM EST
      steven-791492

      nancy grace is the reason there is a mute button on the remote.

      • 8 votes
      Reply#15 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:21 AM EST
      blindsided-1194485

      Grace is a bitter, evil hag who enjoys negative controversy and makes money off of it. As soon as I see her face on the television screen, I turn the channel. Nothing good has ever come from her or her show.

      • 7 votes
      Reply#16 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:25 AM EST
      Don Quixokie

      So what does Nancy Grace call it when she badgers someone into suicide? WINNING!

      What does she call it when she inflames one of her viewers into taking a whack at someone she is demonizing ? WINNING

      What does she call it when she can wave a dead body and kaCHING! kaCHING! kaCHING! in on the tragedy?

      60 years ago she'd have been been leading lynch mobs. She has no place in a civil society.

      • 6 votes
      Reply#17 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:03 PM EST
      eric fuller

      Nancy has gone off the deep end ever since Casey Anthony was acquitted, and she didn't make it to the finals on Dancing With the Stars. How in the hell did she become a lawyer?

      • 3 votes
      Reply#18 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:29 PM EST
      ScreamingForVengeance

      Nancy has gone off the deep end ever since Casey Anthony was acquitted

      You took the words right out of my mouth. This crazy bitch went off the deep end when Casey was acquitted. Although I personally think the bitch killed her kid, it was almost worth seeing her acquitted just to see Nancy Grace's reaction to it.

      How's that commercial go?

      PRICELESS!

      She went freakin' bat@!$%# in a comical way. I mean, Hollywood couldn't have scripted that @!$%# any better!

      Rotflmao!

      The bitch is crazy! They should team her up with Jerry Springer or something! She could have her "expert" guests and Jerry could have his usually sophisticated guests.... I see an EMMY in the works!

      Rotflmfao!

      (Maaan. Talk about some seriously good @!$%# I just puffed on...Sheesh.....)

      • 1 vote
      #18.1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:21 AM EST
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      ScienceGuy-356641

      It's all about ratings. Grace wants the audience's attention, and what better way than to make sensationalistic inferences. If she had made such a suggestion in a courtroom, the judge would have had her censured.

      • 3 votes
      Reply#19 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:09 PM EST
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