# Is Nancy Grace the most repellent, disgusting person in show business? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580 "2011-06-07T02:14:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/21 "2011-06-07T11:34:35Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I wonder if she ever apologized for the Duke Lacross team fiasco. She absolutely knew the girl was telling the truth and the players raped her. She pounded them for months . No. She shut the fuck up as soon as the A.G. declared them innocent. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/22 "2011-06-07T11:36:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Is Nancy Grace the most repellent, disgusting person in show business? Yes, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/23 "2011-06-07T11:37:56Z")
If I may be so bold as to reference American Dad: Looking at you, Nancy, I doubt I could eat the amount I want to vomit. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/24 "2011-06-07T12:17:27Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > If people are asked “(you) and Andy Dick are trapped in a fire and you can only save one of them. Which one do you save?” and most people answer “Andy Dick”, you should probably re-evaluate your life. KKK versus Phred comes to mind (in that if you’re less popular than the KKK, you’ve got some thinking to do). But would you rather save a grand wizard or Dick? Nancy or Phred? Decision, decision. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/25 "2011-06-07T12:19:37Z")
Yes. I think she earns spots 2 through 5 as well. In that if you broke her into 5 people, who were each 1/5 as awful as she is, they would be ranked as the 5 most vile people in ‘show business.’ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/26 "2011-06-07T12:48:35Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > I called my friend and asked, “Who watches your show? What’s your demographic?” > > There was not a second of hesitation in the response: “People in trailer parks in Arkansas.” Either there’s more stereotypical bad-sense-of-the-phrase “trailer park people” than we thought there were, or the ugly truth is that among us “mainstream” people, looking and sounding just like us in casual interaction, walk a large number who have been touched by _ **both** _ the Dark Side and the Stupid Side. Because if she didn’t deliver the numbers, CNN would have been rid of this hate-crazed freak long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/27 "2011-06-07T13:11:47Z")
I think it’s a bell graph kind of thing where for every person on the one end who hates her there’s another person at the other end of the scale who loves her, with the vast majority either ignoring her or only vaguely aware of her existence. CNN probably regards every person who hates her as just one more fan for its advertisers. It’s amazing how few viewers it takes to make a successful cable show. So far as I’ve been able to determine, her highest rated show was after Caylee Anthony’s body was found and that was only 2.5 million viewers…out of a country of over 200 million adults! So only 1 in 100 people were watching her at highest point…a number I think we can safely identify as “outliers”. As the Jerry Springer show proved, there is always an audience for humanity at its lowest. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/28 "2011-06-07T13:15:42Z")
Breaking News folks. **Bombshell** in the courtroom today. The judge had indigestion and the defense didn’t recognize it. Let’s turn to our expert from Timbucktoo who once applied to a medical school and see what he thinks… ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/29 "2011-06-07T13:42:55Z")
Yes, yes she is. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/30 "2011-06-07T14:25:38Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > KKK versus Phred comes to mind (in that if you’re less popular than the KKK, you’ve got some thinking to do). But would you rather save a grand wizard or Dick? Nancy or Phred? Decision, decision. I am good letting them all burn and saving myself. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/31 "2011-06-07T14:38:36Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Yes. I think she earns spots 2 through 5 as well. In that if you broke her into 5 people, who were each 1/5 as awful as she is, they would be ranked as the 5 most vile people in ‘show business.’ Quoted for truth, man!! I can’t fully put into words how much I despise that woman. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/32 "2011-06-07T14:48:42Z")
“If he thinks he’s getting off on an insanity plea, he’s crazy!” ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/33 "2011-06-07T15:14:48Z")
My mom would have loved her. Mom would have seen her behavior as “telling it like it is”. I think a lot of old ladies feel that way about her. They see her as a “tough broad” who doesn’t back down. It’s something that’s hard to understand unless you grew up in an era when women were expected to be quiet and let the menfolks talk. I’m almost glad mom died before Nancy came on TV. We would have had problems. Jane Velez Mitchell is almost as bad. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/34 "2011-06-07T15:25:26Z")
The problem is that Raid Roach Spray does not work on TV screens. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/35 "2011-06-07T15:47:31Z")
From the day after the charges were dropped on the Duke lacrosse kids: > **[The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central](https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah)** > > The Daily Show is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning program that looks at the day’s top headlines through a sharp, reality-based lens. Quite possibly my favorite Daily Show clip of all time. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/36 "2011-06-07T15:52:38Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > KKK versus Phred comes to mind (in that if you’re less popular than the KKK, you’ve got some thinking to do). But would you rather save a grand wizard or Dick? Nancy or Phred? Decision, decision. In descending order: 1 (t): Phelps 1 (t): Grace 3: KKK 4: Carrot Top 5: Dick (I’m sure I laughed once or twice at him in _Newsradio_. I never laughed at anything CT did.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/37 "2011-06-07T16:22:25Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I wonder if she ever apologized for the Duke Lacross team fiasco. She absolutely knew the girl was telling the truth and the players raped her. She pounded them for months . Oh, and that’s just one of several cases she got wrong and showed absolutely no remorse for. Another is the Elizabeth Smart case where she pretty much convicted a man named Richard Ricci on Larry King for her abduction, and it was found later that he had absolutely nothing to do with the case. I can’t find the original source of the quote, but I posted in [an old Dope thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=318302) about it: > [@](#): > > In her regular spots on Larry King Live, she said that Ricci was “definitely > part of the story;” Ricci was eventually arrested and held without charge in a Utah prison, where he died in September 2002. Even after Ricci died, Grace directed her hound-from-hell routine at Angela Ricci, Ricci’s widow. When the crime was eventually solved, of course, it became clear that Ricci had not been involved. When Mark Geragos criticized Grace on a subequent King program for having “convicted” Ricci on the air, she indignantly denied all wrongdoing. Here’s the address of a DAILY HOWLER report which discusses this matter in detail. And further: > [@](#): > > CALLER: Hi. Is it possible for the FBI or the law officers involved in the case to use sodium pentothal on Mr. Ricci and find out if he has any involvement with this girl’s disappearance? Whether or not it can be used against him after? > KING: Nancy, is that allowed? > > GRACE: Oh, how I wish, Larry! Unfortunately, it’s not allowed under our Constitution. No sodium pentothal, truth serum, no beating, no torture. We have to wait for Ricci to crack. That’s right. > > […] > > Indeed, when Smart was returned to her family on March 12, King lamented the way Ricci had been convicted right there on his program. “Nancy, do you feel a little funny about all the racks [sic] we took at Mr. Ricci on this show?” he asked. Predictably, Grace replied, “No. I don’t.” And then there’s the whole Runaway Bride saga, where Nancy was so absolutely sure there’s no such thing as a “runaway bride” and that the boyfriend was somehow involved in some foul play, given partly the telling evidence than he hired an attorney! _gasp_ There are not enough :rolleyes: in the world for her. And yet we reward this behavior. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/38 "2011-06-07T16:27:34Z")
I couldn’t finish watching that Nancy Grace clip about Japanese radiation - I despised her already, but I didn’t realize (fool that I am) that she was also responsible for perpetuating junk science, another of my pet peeves. Of course she is; why wouldn’t a piece of shit like her dabble in dangerously misleading people about scientific things, too? She’s pretty much a perfect storm of despicableness. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/39 "2011-06-07T16:34:55Z")
[The Daily Show link for those of us not in the US.](http://clip.vn/watch/Daily-Show-Nancy-Grace-Gets-Grapefruited,dnK) Jon Stewart, I salute you. (It paused a lot the first time through, but played okay on replay.) ---
**Author:** ![NOLA\_Cajun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@NOLA\_Cajun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NOLA_Cajun)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580/40 "2011-06-07T16:48:17Z")
Nah, I’d have to say Rachel Maddow is the most disgusting snail trail in news. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nancy-grace-the-most-repellent-disgusting-person-in-show-business/584580.md?page=3)