# Did you kill Chandra Levy? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828 "2001-08-24T02:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/21 "2001-08-24T18:51:03Z")
I think that Dan Rather did it. Why the hell else would he refuse to jump on a major news story? šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![zwaldd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@zwaldd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwaldd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/22 "2001-08-24T19:08:21Z")
Note the section where [abcnews.com](http://abcnews.com) decided it was appropriate to stick the [Condit story](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/). ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/23 "2001-08-24T19:15:41Z")
Iā€™m not talking about ABCNews as a group, Iā€™m talking about Dan himself. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/24 "2001-08-24T23:52:47Z")
You know, I donā€™t find the thing very funny either. As a parent I canā€™t imagine a WORSE scenario. And I can imagine that her parents are DESPERATE to know what happened to their daughter. So more power to them in their quest to put pressure on Condit to reveal what he knows about her. Morally I think he owes it to them to pick up the phone, answer any and all of their questions, without some bullshit canned answer, and convince them that heā€™s innocent of any wrongdoing. HOWEVER, and I canā€™t believe Iā€™m defending a guy who is a close cousin to the weasel, I agree with Condit that he is under no moral obligation to cooperate with the press. He doesnā€™t owe Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Barbara Walters OR me anything beyond saying he had nothing to do with her disappearance. Chungā€™s INSISTENCE that he tell her the exact nature of their relationship was irrelevant and arrogant. Hello! This is America, Connie. Heā€™s presumed to be INNOCENT here. Conditā€™s insisted heā€™s cooperated with the police and heā€™s insisted he knows nothing about her disappearance. There ends his moral responsibility to the public. If his constituents use his reticence as a reason to boot him out of office, sobeit. That is THEIR right. But itā€™s NOT their right to know what happens in his personal life. That is his wifeā€™s business, and to a degree, the policeā€™s business. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/25 "2001-08-25T00:09:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > \*\*What I found interesting (well, in the first 20 minutes I bothered watching), is that he answered two seperate questions asking about the same subject matter almost word for word exactly alike. Thatā€™s when I realized he had been coached and coached and coached until his ears bled. This interview would reveal nothing. I then went to a bar to drink and play pool. \*\* ā€œNow, let me point out, that Iā€™ve been married for 34 years. Iā€™m not a perfect man. Iā€™ve made mistakes. But out of a specific request from the Levy family, Iā€™m not going to get into the details of our relationship.ā€\* Is that the one you mean? \*Of course, this is just from memory, but I think itā€™s pretty close to what he said. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/26 "2001-08-25T00:34:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > \*\*I dont find it funny. Leno makes fun of condit killing interns in his routineā€¦ her PARENTS are out there somewhere, praying she is alive. > > Have a heart guys, she was just a kid, and her poor parents, I cant imagine the hell they are in. > > This just isnt funny to me. ā˜¹ Its sad. \*\* Of course itā€™s sad. Why would anyone find it funny? Iā€™m beginning to agree with Ebert that our culture is oversaturated with irony. Anyone who thinks the Chandra Levy affair is ā€œfunnyā€ has a serious disconnect with reality. ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/27 "2001-08-25T00:35:23Z")
Yeah, thatā€™s it. Now if I were his political advisor, this is the canned answer Iā€™d have given him: ā€œMy sex life, and the sex life of this missing girl, is none of your damn business, Connie. Or are you willing to tell me the physical reasons why you and Maury were never able to concieve? Was it your fault or his?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/28 "2001-08-25T00:40:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*Of course itā€™s sad. Why would anyone find it funny? Iā€™m beginning to agree with Ebert that our culture is oversaturated with irony. Anyone who thinks the Chandra Levy affair is ā€œfunnyā€ has a serious disconnect with reality. \*\* Or a different sense of humor than you. Just 'cause weā€™re different, doesnā€™t mean one of us is better. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/29 "2001-08-25T01:43:08Z")
Bread and circuses, friends, bread and circuses. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtin. ---
**Author:** ![More\_Cowbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@More\_Cowbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/More_Cowbell)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/30 "2001-08-25T02:10:25Z")
Well I know it wasnā€™t me, but that one-armed man looks awfully suspiciousā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/31 "2001-08-25T02:18:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \* > \*\*Bread and circuses, friends, bread and circuses. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtin. \*\* You mean _Dick Cheney_ killed Chandra Levy? ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/32 "2001-08-25T02:42:50Z")
Jon Benet Ramsayā€™s death was tragic. Chandra Levyā€™s possible death is tragic. The persons responsible should be tracked down, prosecuted to the full extent of the law and be given sentences commensurate with the crime. What borders on the obscene is the mediaā€™s simplistic, trivializing treatment of serious subjects in the hopes of winning the ratings war or getting the exclusive. Chungā€™s incessant attempts to get Condit to admit that he had an affair when it was clear from question one that the guy would clam up bordered on the ludicrous. As someone else posted, the possible murder of Levy took second billing. You had the impression it was sort of incidental. (But, not to worry, Larry and his crew will straigthen things out for us. Theyā€™ll put all this shit together and find us the murderer.) Iā€™ll admit I watched the interview more for the interviewer (and the powers-that-be behind her) than for the interviewee. I was not disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![sdarr2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@sdarr2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdarr2002)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/33 "2001-08-25T15:38:54Z")
1. she ainā€™t dead. sheā€™s on the island with paul ā€œthe walrusā€, elvis, the lindberg baby, anastasia, kurt cobain and andy kaufman. 2. of course, if you donā€™t believe that, she may of met up with oj and forgot her sunglasses, and you know the rest 3. would you believe the blair witch? 4. or she might of gone with ford prefect. did any one check her linen closet and see if any towels are missing? 5)scotty beamed her up. but truly, she is now protecting the earth from the scum of the universe, under the code name ā€œsā€ i am going to go stand in the corner now. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/34 "2001-08-25T18:19:28Z")
**monster** Thatā€™s exactly the answer I was thinking about when I wrote that. There wasnā€™t a question this guy wasnā€™t prepared for. He would answer everything as _ahem_ lawyeristically as possible and only answer those he chose to answer. When he said word for word that exact answer twice I just gave up on the interview. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/35 "2001-08-25T18:35:18Z")
You seem surprised. What did you expect? ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/36 "2001-08-25T22:12:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by omni-not \* > \*\*What borders on the obscene is the mediaā€™s simplistic, trivializing treatment of serious subjects in the hopes of winning the ratings war or getting the exclusive. Chungā€™s incessant attempts to get Condit to admit that he had an affair when it was clear from question one that the guy would clam up bordered on the ludicrous. > > As someone else posted, the possible murder of Levy took second billing. You had the impression it was sort of incidental. > \*\* She wasnā€™t getting him to admit to an affair, she was trying to get him _ **to tell the truth.** _ If heā€™d never had an affair with her, he couldā€™ve just said so, and that would be the end of that. People always bash media figures for grilling people like Condit, Hey, heā€™s an elected official in the single most powerul government in the world. Heā€™d _ **better** _ not be lying about anything, or he doesnā€™t deserve his job. Claims to ā€œprivacyā€ are hogwash. Nobody deserves ā€œprivacyā€ to cheat on their wife. If a manā€™s own wife canā€™t rust him, why should any voter trust him to look after their best interests? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/37 "2001-08-26T07:37:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*If a manā€™s own wife canā€™t rust him, why should any voter trust him to look after their best interests? \*\* I actually divorced my ex for rusting me. Totally destroyed my resale value. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/38 "2001-08-26T07:45:53Z")
Omni not, I really wasnā€™t expecting anything. I never gave it much thought. I knew it was airing and I knew I wasnā€™t that interested. But I watched the last ten minutes of Millionaire and up popped Connie Chung with all these cool questions. So I said ā€œwhat the hell, letā€™s watch it.ā€ 15-20 minutes later I said ā€œwhat the hell, letā€™s get drunkā€ and turned the tv off. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/39 "2001-08-26T14:11:40Z")
Everyday I pray for a news drought. And each day it just gets worse. I mean here this was the biggest news story of the week and it was also one of the greatest non-events of the year. Jay Leno asked the audience how many people had changed there mind due to the interview, not a single clap, not one. Which sucked for him since the joke made no sense anymore. DAMN YOU JOURNALISTS!!! _I scream into the night_ I USED TO BE AN OPTOMIST!!! ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828/40 "2001-08-26T19:31:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \*If a manā€™s own wife canā€™t rust him, why should any voter trust him to look after their best interests? > > I actually divorced my ex for rusting me. Totally destroyed my resale value. Buahahaha! šŸ˜‰ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-kill-chandra-levy/77828.md?page=3)