American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor
At Commentary magazine’s “Contentions” blog, Peter Wehner discusses the latest cable television news ratings: FOX News has the top dozen rated shows on cable news. Thirteen FOX News programs draw…
CNN’s hot new talk show, “Parker Spitzer” debuted in last place on Monday. Even Nancy Grace had more viewers than Whatshername and Love Client No. 9. A Baltimore Sun columnist…
A promo for the Nancy Grace show on CNN has a photo montage purporting illustrating the biggest crime stories of the year. But the first face to show on the…
Yaeger: “Duke was playing one-move chess. They didn’t know where the game was going to end. There was no thought. There was just reaction.” Can’t say they did everything wrong.…
Question: About children. Says the boys grew up awful fast in the past year. Mentions Nifong’s son. Says Reade said in an elevator in her presence that he felt sorry…
Williamson: If these statements had not been made by Nifong, how would the defense had conducted itself differently? Bannon: Significantly. We can respond to publicity not initiated by us, the…
Staff editorial in the Duke Chronicle today seeks closure and takes stock. In the midst of it they note some significant absences (a la Nancy Grace?):
Former Herald-Sun cartoonist John Cole, now the cartoonist at the Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune, weighed in on the Duke case today. He sees a very different rape: In the commentary accompanying…
There’s an interesting discussion on the LieStoppers blog comments regarding Duke’s motive in offering reinstatement. Here’s the gist, in the words of an anonymous commenter: It is a win/win for…
Jon, Kevin Miller calls himself a “populist,” which apparently means someone who likes Pat Buchanan and cares not a lick for economic theory or principled government. At a talk the…