Miscellaneous News

If the economic news is too depressing, don't fret: A Salvadoran by the name of Ingmar Guandique is said to be close to being arrested in the Chandra Levy murder case from 2001. He is already doing time in California for a couple of rapes.

You remember the Levy case, don't you? During the summer of 2001, this was THE big story in the tabloid media and cable channels. The ONLY reason it was anything other than the routine killing it was had to do with Levy's relationship with former congressman Gary Condit of California. Thanks to her distraught parents fanning the media-induced flames, it was Condit who supposedly had something to do with her disappearance and murder, despite the fact he had nothing to do with either. It didn't matter, for what counted was the fact a conservative Democrat was supposedly involved with her, and it was time to take him down. It was 24/7 Condit/Levy until the 9/11 attacks buried it into irrelevance.

Condit's career and life were ruined simply because he wasn't the world's greatest husband, but that didn't matter to the vultures in the media.
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Is this for real about an otter discovered with a video camera?
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Ted Kennedy turns 77 tomorrow, but it is way too premature to write the obituaries and eulogies.
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Funeral directors aren't immune to the economy; instead of fancy funerals, some remains remain unclaimed.
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Yellow Journalism is Alive and Well

While the administration proposes a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddic Mac, a story which is the BIG story of the day, what does the Washington Post have in bigger letters on its home page?

Chandra Levy, of course, and the usual garbage about former congressman Gary Condit.

Remember the feeding frenzy in the summer of 2001 by the media over this rather routine murder? It was 24/7 trashing of Condit, who had NO involvement at all in her disappearance and murder.

The only reason the hoopla died down was because of 9/11.

I am glad to read, though, people writing in the comments by and large are just as disgusted as I am about the silly article and series. If the Washington Post wanted to do a service, it could have written about unsolved murder cases around the country.

More Miscellaneous News

Why after all these years should we even care about the Chandra Levy case, apart from those directly involved?

There are thousands of murder cases every year, and if it weren't for the fact a Democratic congressman was somehow acquainted with her, the case would have been another routine unsolved one.
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Our dictator has a plan to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.