When Nancy Grace was the regular fixture on Larry King Live, I had already had enough of her brand of self-righteousness. Simply put, I cannot stand her and couldn't believe that many viewers would be swayed by her phoniness. Even though it may sound subjective, I trust my instinct feeling that Ms. Grace's eagerness to wear her sense of justice on her sleeves was her way to obtain fame. The reason I don't trust her is not because her desire for fame, but how she tried to gain it through distorting the truth. She had a way to draw TV camera's attention by making sensational prosecutorial prediction. The simplest example is during the Elizabeth Smart's abduction case. Remember, the first suspect (Sorry, I forget his name) was a man who lived in the neighborhood and had occasionally helped Smart family maintain their house. He was put in jail and died heart attack during the investigation. Afterwards, his wife was interviewed on Larry King Live. This was when the real convicts (Remember, a couple) hadn't surfaced yet. During the interview, Nancy Grace was one of the pundits and when the man's wife tried to claim her husband's innocence, Ms. Grace sounded so sure that she knew the recently dead man was definitely involved in Elizabeth's disppearance. Few months later, when the real villains were caught, I was often wondering why Ms. Grace hadn't apologized publicly to that dead man and his wife for her false accusation. They were definitely the victims of her pretended earnestness and sense of justice. In terms of me, the easiest way to deal with Ms. Grace's pretentiousness is just not to watch her.

Because it's hysterically funny. When there is nothing else on TV, my roommate and I turn on Nancy Grace and howl. Her hair and makeup are outlandish and comical. Her nails are like claws, ready to dig into the next sob story and milk it dry. Every interview is worse than the last. We take turns doing Nancy Grace impressions and cracking each other up..

It gets old after about 20 minutes, but man -- my Nancy fix reminds me that no matter how silly I might feel during my day, there is someone out there who will always be more ridiculous than me no matter what.

All the attention that this JonBenet Ramsey affair is getting from the cable news service, without any obvious conclusion in sight, leads my over active mind to wonder if Karl Rove or someone other Al Swearengen type mind has been working on getting something like this going? Then I realise Karl Rove is the news. He can make his own reality. Hey! Talk to Tony Soprano. He'll tell ya I'm right!

What is it about blond, judgmental harpy women that the American public finds so arresting? Ann Coulter, Laura Schlesinger, Nancy Grace -- three harpy clones.

When we pushed for equal rights for women, we didn't have these paragons of nastiness in mind. But it's interesting (and maybe not so surprising) that the media, which feeds on itself so efficiently, fawns over Grace and Coulter. Nothing inspires a male-dominated industry quite so much as women acting witchy.

My husband watches Nancy Grace, seeing in her the possibility of bringing to the public the terrible death of our daughter. How many parents are shown on Nancy Grace, holding their emotions tightly in check, relating their horrifying, very personal traumas to a CSI-jaded, leering nation, in search of not fame, but justice?

I laughed as hard as anyone when I heard Keith Olbermann call her Nancy "I Know What You Did Last Summer" Grace. My husband watches Nancy in our bedroom, my critical eye, away from my jibes, yet a family in our group for families who have experienced a murder got justice after appearing on Grace. I'd show up on her doorstep in a New York minute if I thought we'd get the justice we seek by telling our story to her and the country, enduring the stigma of everyone knowing we've had a murder in our family.

The very sad fact is that there is so much unpunished murder in this country is what makes a droning nag like Nancy necessary - we need overworked, underfunded and undereducated police departments to have the ability to solve these cases. The boring, common, mostly domestic murders that no one in society seems to care about. The murders I never noticed until they (literally) came home to roost.

If Nancy Grace can help to solve these murders, to focus on the perpetrators by making the case public, putting pressure on the police, then I hope she gets renewed for the next twenty seasons, to be as loud and obnoxious as possible.

"We need Nancy Grace"? Ummm, let's try rewording that sentence. How about: "We need someone like Nancy... just not Nancy herself." Watermelon, I present Exhibit A: "America's Most Wanted". True, the show depends far too heavily on 'dramatic re-enactments' and sensationalizes crimes (then again, so does Nancy). But unlike her, AMW does have some legitimacy. Tips called into the show were instrumental in the Elizabeth Smart and John List cases. They do have a track record of successful captures of wanted criminals and returned missing persons. Whatever its flaws, and there are many, AMW does seem to have it's heart in the right place.

Ah, but what about Nancy's track record? Well, she zealously defended the kooky "Runaway Bride", Jennifer Wilbanks, calling her innocent even though all evidence pointed to the contrary. She called Michael Schiavo "A philandering scuzz", a comment worthy of a FOX News talking point. She said publicly that Richard Ricci was responsible for the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Even after this was proven untrue, she has never retracted her claim. And she certainly is an advocate for victims of violent crime-- provided they are young, pretty, female... and white.

Nancy Grace isn't doing anything to solve murders or crimes, but she does have a platform to be as "loud and obnoxious as possible." And frankly, that what really counts in Nancy Land.