News Day

What I like about the news is not so much the news itsself, but people's reactions to it.

Here are some of my favorite reader comments from the New York Times news story on Anna Nicole Smith's death:

I believe all this yo-yo dieting is responsible and I am worried about other celebrity diet product endorsers (including one actress who I won’t name) who has similiar up and down weight swings.

It’s sad, she was a mess and seemed self destructive and clueless but it’s still sad in a bizarre way. I don’t know why I care but I kind of do.

i hope that there is a heaven and that she is there now with her son.

Someone let Sir Elton know he has to warm up the old vocal pipes.

SHE WAS NO PRINCESS DIANA!!!

im sorry this had to happen at a time like this

What a great loss. I refer, or course, to the New York Times’ decision, presumably made in the face of financial difficulties, to pander to the People-reading crowd by eliciting comments on this matter.

Ms. Smith died of a broken heart. The series of heartaches she experienced over the past years was just too much for her to bear. She is now with her son…………..perhaps she has found her peace……at last.

I can’t believe that she died. She was super & fabulous. I am shocked by this tragedy. After her 20 yr. old son Daniel passed away, I was also shocked with that. I also feel bad for that baby that Anna gave birth to.

I’m so very sorry.

Someone should be looking at that Snake of a husband of hers.

I wonder if her infant daughter will become the Paris Hilton of 2020’s?

MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE FAMILIY OF MS. SMITH . iT MUST OF BEEN HARD TO LOSE HER SON AND NOW HER BY THE SAME DEATH.

I have a son that was
born about 2 weeks after Nicole Smith was born.
And I know how heartbreaking it would be to lose
him at such a young age.

IT IS VERY SAD ON WHAT HAPPENED TO MRS SMITH. I JUST HOPE HER CHILD IS BEING TAKEN CARE OF. IF DRUGS ARE THE CASE, I HOPE THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL FOR EVERYONE. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW PRETTY YOU ARE OR HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE, DRUGS ARE EVIL. IT TAKES YOU AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY. I REALLY HOPE DRUGS WERE NOT THE CASE, BUT IF IT WAS, JUST THINK ABOUT IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO YOU WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO YOUR FAMILY…

Good riddance! Now, if we could only focus our attention on the war in Iraq, contemporary chattel slavery, AIDS, and other things of actual importance, we might be getting somewhere.

Well, the stress and hounding have finally killed her, perhaps now people will leave the poor woman alone!

For some reason I am expecting a news conference with Anna Nicole still alive and repeating the old Samuel Clemens quote “the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. But, a) she was not smart enough to know that quote and b) this is 2007 not 1897.

In my own opinion, I feel she was the perfect spokeswoman to the young crowd. She did what she wanted to do and accomplished her dreams and nobody elses.

Now, looks like it’d be a good time for the Bush Administration to bomb Iran..while CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC..ad nauseum run hour after hour of the Anna Nicole Smith funeral/retrospective.

Really sad to know this. Its like some movie.

Uhmm, Prayers for the family.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH’S LIFE IS A TRUE TESTAMENT TO HOW MUCH LOVE HAS ESCAPED OUR WORLD TODAY.
SHE LIVED AND STARVED FOR THE LOVE WE ALL WISH FOR…SEARCHING FOR IT THROUGH MONEY, MARRIAGES, ATTENTION AND EVEN FAME.
I THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY THAT ANNA NEVER FOUND THAT LOVE…NOT EVEN DURING THE TIMES WHEN SHE NEEDED IT THE MOST.
A PRECIOUS FLOWER HAS DIED WITHOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE ITS TRUE FRAGRANCE RELEASED.
R.I.P. ANNA NICOLE, I HOPE YOU CAN FIND THE LOVE IN HEAVEN THAT YOU DIDN’T FIND HERE ON EARTH.
AND I PRAY THAT THE LEGACY THAT WAS INTENDED FOR YOU IS FULLFILLED THROUGH YOUR DAUGHTER.

Tragic? No. ANS’s death was perfectly predictable; drugs are bad for you.

As her friend and neighbor I know she hasn’t been quite right since the democrats won control of both houses.