More than a coincidence
I typically don't participate in White Trash Wednesdays. However, since CBS has decided to join in the fray uninvited, so to speak, so shall I.
It's not that I'm pissed somebody who actually did something heroic and valid has a T.V. movie being aired about their actions. Really the trailer park princess that the media has deemed a hero did little more than any two bit hooker has done. Well actually a two bit hooker has a bit more courage; they knowing put themselves at risk whereas Amber Frey is and was just plain stupid. Amber Frey's claim to fame is she slept Scott Peterson (who if you've lived in a bubble the past several years killed his wife and unborn son).
Throughout the entire ordeal she's claimed her innocence and that she didn't know Ol' Scottie boy was married. Now call me old fashioned, but prior to hopping in the sack with someone on a repeated basis I think I'd want to know a bit more about them, at a bare minimum their marital situation. It would have surely been entirely to difficult to pick up the phonebook and see if his wife's name was listed right beside his, or to actually call the house. I mean Modesto, CA where Scott and Laci Peterson were living is a city of around 190,000 people so there had to be at least a couple hundred pages in the phone book. I realize I'm being a bit hard on Amber for not picking up the phone book and calling Scott's house or at least seeing they were listed as Scott and Laci Peterson, maybe she never made it past the first grade where they teach you not to go home with strangers.
There's the whole naked pictures issue. There's an organization of people who get their jollies by viewing at pictures of people who look like her; their name is NAMBLA (that's short for North American Man/Boy Love Association). If the media was going to take skanky redneck an make a movie about her she could at least have done something somewhat worthwhile, right Britney?
The blame doesn't entirely lay with Amber Frey; the media is just as much to blame. Rather than air a story about a true hero, maybe one of the soldiers who lost their life in Iraq, or a policeman killed protecting us they picked this bimbo. A bimbo who hired an attorney shortly after seeing the monetary potential realizing she could help.
Couldn't the two hours of airtime that CBS is going to burn on this waste of oxygen be better utilized airing pictures of missing children, or suspected murders on the run?
Oh and if sombody is really thinking about saying she's a hero because she didn't have to come forward, you don't want to open that can of worms. What Amber Frey did is no where close to what a women who's been sexually assaulted goes through when they're put on trial. Amber Frey was a willing participant, not to trivialize Laci's death, but what makes Amber's poor taste in men a heroic quality? I’m pretty sure there have been lots of women that slept with murders are they all heroines also?
Why waste two hours of valuable airtime unless the big wigs at CBS are knowingly trying to upstage the other participants of White Trash Wednesday. Anybody want to bet the next hussy turned hero will be Ana Marie Cox, she has trashed her journalistic integrity to infiltrate the world of blogging. There's also the suffering she must endure while on panels with those smelly conservative bloggers and the interviews with Fox News, oh the horror.
Linked to basil's blog | Lunch: 5/25/05.
