My views on the cruise, clues and recent news

This is an opinion piece. I wrote it fully expecting a broad spectrum of opinions from every possible direction. I want to know how you feel, whether you agree with me or not. Since this is an opinion piece, you are free to call me a nut.

Since the disappearance of Caylee Marie Anthony took to the airwaves and print media last July, people have complained about the entire family. In some cases, it’s been for good reasons, but in others, people don’t seem to have a clue. We sometimes get lost in this sea of news we simply call the case against Casey.

I recently got a flurry of e-mails complaining about the cruise the Anthonys went on this past weekend. How dare them spend money from CBS. Blood money off their dead granddaughter. Look, I don’t know who paid for the 2-day cruise and to be honest, I don’t care. It could have been donated by the cruise line and you know something? We’ll never know because it’s none of our business. How come no one cares about how much money CBS made from airing that show? Why care about things that don’t concern us because we don’t understand media and the Madison Avenue giants that study how many green beans we eat in a year? It’s much too complex to sort through. A family in trouble is much easier sink our fangs into.

What has puzzled me from the start is the billions of dollars the media are making off this crime, yet no one complains. The media continue to get rich and the Anthonys must stay home, penniless. A picture surfaces on a rag mag, the Globe, with Casey holding Caylee in her now familiar blouse and the first reaction is that Casey sold it through Baez as a cryptic clue. It turns out that the odds on favorite was Ricardo Morales, who sold other photos to the Globe. Will anyone admit they might have made a mistake? No, because they’ll just brush it off by saying, “It sounds like something Crazey and Bozo would do.”

How about this one? While minions of people spend days deciphering the image on the cover of a tabloid that, in my opinion, belongs at the bottom of a birdcage the second it hits the newsstand, no one pays attention to how many curious readers bought that issue and filled the coffers of The American Media Inc Celebrity News Network, its parent company. This is nothing more than a magazine, if it qualifies as one, that has one goal – to shock and titillate its readers. There is nothing wrong with good old fashioned moneymaking, no matter how you get it, right? Wrong. I guess it all hinges on who or what it is. Making money in America is a two-edged sword. It’s split between the thems that deserve it and the thems that don’t. How funny that we do our best to decide for all those thems, whether we can do anything about it or not.

The reason why I don’t care about this very important cruise is because everyone deserves a vacation, including the Anthonys and it saddens me that people won’t allow them to go anywhere. It’s as if they should remain under a constant microscope, while people throw rocks at them. Why? They’ve been through a lot more than most of us will experience in a lifetime. Should they be available at all hours to kick around? Granted, they have said some very nonsensical things, but who are we to deny them basic human rights and freedoms? The court system is there for that. The public has already condemned them.

Here is a very interesting observation by one of this blog’s readers/commenters that perfectly describes the public’s hunger. It is precisely the double standard I take very seriously:

As for Cindy working, how the heck can she? Followed everywhere, constantly ridiculed. People at the Fox blog were reporting her to some professional association… demanding she have her nursing license revoked. SERIOUSLY …. do you want the woman to work or not??? You can’t suck and blow at the same time people. It’s not possible.

By the way, does anyone really care what Morales did with his newfound riches? In most cases, a resounding no. Didn’t he make money off a dead child? Absolutely, yes. Everyone, it seems, is entitled to get rich except the Anthonys. Something is just wrong with this picture. In my opinion, the Anthonys deserve it more than Madison Avenue and it is their choice to do what they want. In reality, they owe us nothing because we have given them nothing but grief and Big Trouble since the news broke. Sure, the pizza box had a lot to do with it, but we are not in charge of their lives and we have no control over their finances. We need to get over that part and move on.

I’m not going after anyone personally. I know plenty of people will agree that any money made off a dead child is just plain wrong. I am merely complaining about no one recognizing anyone and anything else but the Anthonys. Only the Anthonys. I don’t know who paid for the trip and, again, I don’t care. I’m sure, unlike whatever anyone else may think, they needed to get away from this crime. Trust me, I sat close enough to them in court on Friday to see. I briefly spoke to George. They both appeared like two people desperately looking for a break. And needing one. I am also willing to bet you that Morales made a lot more money than the Anthonys did off CBS and he cruised every penny of it to the bank. Did he deserve it? Trust me, there are a lot of people like him out there, we just don’t put any of them under a microscope. Why not? Diane Fanning will get rich off her book, Mommy’s Little Girl. Does anyone complain about that? No, because anyone or anything that shows the Anthonys in a bad light is given a pass. Call it a free cruise.

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