# Jane Velez Mitchel **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 5, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955 "2011-07-05T23:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/1 "2011-07-05T23:41:53Z")
That’s right. Nancy Grace light. I just heard her blame the Casey Anthony verdict of not guilty on her celebrity status. Well just who the hell made Casey a celebrity ? I fuckin hate her and her mentor. And I’ll say something else. I hate the both of them so much that I longed for a justified not guilty verdict just to piss them off. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/2 "2011-07-05T23:50:23Z")
That’s weird. Jurors aren’t supposed to be able to find out that the person in the dock has become a celebrity due to the trial. Are they? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/3 "2011-07-05T23:54:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s weird. Jurors aren’t supposed to be able to find out that the person in the dock has become a celebrity due to the trial. > > Are they? JVM and NG made her a celebrity long before the trial. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/4 "2011-07-06T00:35:34Z")
Poor HLN. They are going to have to make another criminal a celebrity now. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/5 "2011-07-06T00:35:35Z")
About the only funny thing about the whole godawful thing is how it will mess with those two’s heads. I’d watch the shows just to laugh at them, but I think it’d probably make me upchuck. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/6 "2011-07-06T01:00:29Z")
I don’t like Jane Velez Mitchell, but I have to say I could possibly hold my lunch 4 hours in her company before I could not heave it up 4 minutes in Grace’s. At least Mitchell doesn’t look like the offspring of [Voldemort](http://allaboutcoloredcontacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/blog-voldemort-eyes-red.jpg) with a [truckstop whore](http://thumbnails.hulu.com/8/15/20119_512x288_manicured__KW+2oinIOkmHr78CCvIUBQ.jpg). Was the Anthony jury sequestered? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/7 "2011-07-06T02:17:37Z")
Yes, but for what? 30 some odd days. These two have been pontificating about “totmom” for 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![jeredc1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/8 "2011-07-06T02:39:34Z")
Both of them are wretched, sensationalistic whores who deserve to be punched in their cocksuckers. I can’t stand listening to Grace talk about her stupid fucking twins. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/9 "2011-07-06T05:38:49Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s weird. Jurors aren’t supposed to be able to find out that the person in the dock has become a celebrity due to the trial. > > Are they? > [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > JVM and NG made her a celebrity long before the trial. But aren’t the people who know about her being a celebrity supposed to be excluded from the jury in the first place? As an aside I offer my Facebook status for the day: \*“News” on television is an entertainment-oriented product, which is packaged with the intent of titillating and/or terrorizing its consumers. Both of these outcomes can be achieved far more enjoyably by anyone who really WANTS to be titillated and/or terrorized. Be wise. Deprive the Nancy Graces and the Baba Wawas and the Chris Wallaces and all of their colleagues of the opportunity to target you as a market.\* ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/10 "2011-07-06T06:10:14Z")
They were complaining about how Casey could now profit off of her daughter’s death. My first thought was, “You’ve profited all lot more off this little girl’s death than her mom ever will.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/11 "2011-07-06T07:21:06Z")
Was the “totmom” expression an effort of NG’s to somehow “own” the whole trial for her show? Does anyone know how that whole “totmom” thing started? Did she instruct her callers to use that name? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/12 "2011-07-06T22:47:41Z")
> [@jeredc1983](#): > > … whores who deserve to be punched in their cocksuckers… I’m pretty sure neither one of them actually do that. I’ll bet ol’ Nancy is stricty a “one input” device and the wife tells me that fluffy-dog lookin’ one is Lebanese! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/13 "2011-07-06T23:02:47Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Was the “totmom” expression an effort of NG’s to somehow “own” the whole trial for her show? > > Does anyone know how that whole “totmom” thing started? Did she instruct her callers to use that name? > > Thanks > > Q I first began to see it in web news site headlines. I think Grace picked it up from there, possibly because she couldn’t bring herself to say Casey’s name or some idiotic reason like that. But who knows? Maybe the show’s research showed that it resonated in some way with the people who watch that ridiculous program. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jane-velez-mitchel/587955/14 "2011-07-06T23:05:47Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’m pretty sure neither one of them actually do that. I’ll bet ol’ Nancy is stricty a “one input” device and the wife tells me that fluffy-dog lookin’ one is Lebanese! According to the Wiki article on her, Valez-Mitchell is half Puerto Rican and half Irish.