"Wedding bell blues" : Thinking Out Loud : Blogs : News-Record.com : Greensboro, North Carolina

Eric said:

BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

You'd think the people in charge of these decisions would be smart enough to do a little research, interview this nut and figure out just how much of a story she had before parading her in front of her cameras for that much air time.

Posted on June 22, 2005 5:38 AM

Joe Schmoe said:

I really don't think there was a need for a pre-interview Eric. Just look at the woman's eyes. I'm not one to judge a book by its cover, but the eyes are the windows to the soul (sorry about the cliches) and in this case a reflection of intelligence.
Throughout my years of teaching I found I can look people in the eyes and see if the gears are turning or not. My percentage of accuracy on whether intelligence resided in a student was in the mid to high nineties. (This never factored into a student's grade.)
With Willibanks, from the start I could see something wasn't quite right in the eyes of this woman. She had the look of a deer in the headlights. I didn't base my opinion on the one picture that floated across my television and appeared in the print media. I waited for more. After all, maybe it was a bad picture. Then, more pictures appeared in media and it became evident. Someone had stolen Ms. Willibanks' brain. Nothing intelligent could be seen behind those eyes. No wonder she hid under a blanket during her escort through the airport.

Now the stupidity deepens. Some publisher is willing to give her a god awful amount for rights to publish her book. (By god awful, I mean one penny or more is too much) Then there's NBC and its hype of the one hour special. If the public isn't savy to how these things work I'll remind them that she was paid for the NBC interview. That's where the blatant stupidity of this whole situation lies.

We, the public, reward people for lying and cheating. Ms. Willibanks paid only a small amount of restitution to the "search and rescue efforts" of her county, state, and nation. The local law enforcement, Georgia SBI, and the FBI all contributed man-hours to help find this woman. What did she do in return? Get a big book deal (movie of the week to follow), Katie Couric kissing her butt, and only pay back a fraction of the cost to track her down.

On second thought, that's not a bad deal. I think I'll run away, concoct a racism-based abduction/sexual assault, and then say I got cold feet over my marriage. But then again, no one would care because I'm not a white southern belle.

Posted on June 22, 2005 8:57 AM

govtwriter said:

Did people really watch this last night? Really? I tuned it out immediately, cause I knew nothing she had to say was going to be of interest to me. I don't care why she ran away. Really. I care somewhat that she used the old "some scary criminal-minded brown/black/yellow men abducted me" ruse to try and wiggle out of her silly situation. I care A LOT that she is getting paid after using that tired and ugly ruse as a cover up. But, I don't give a newborn baby's bottom what she has to say about why she ran away. Why would people watch this??

Posted on June 22, 2005 3:11 PM

Allen Johnson said:

It'd be nice if the ratings tanked on this one. Being cynical about such things, I don't expect that to be the case.

Posted on June 22, 2005 3:14 PM

Joe Schmoe said:

Ah ha!! I just realized what this was all about. The whole thing is a scam to pay for the six hundred guest wedding.

Posted on June 22, 2005 4:35 PM

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