Story 2: Time to Bury 'America's Rose'
Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:05 PM by Countdown
OK, it's time to bury this woman already.
If you ever thought of Anna Nicole Smith -- in life -- as a drugged-up caricature, or a not-even-close Marilyn Monroe wannabee, or a gold-digger like the Spanish Conquistadors were gold-diggers...she has now clearly been transformed, in death, into a sympathetic and much-abused victim, almost literally being kicked around when she can't possibly offer any defense.
Our fourth story on the Countdown: Day Twelve of her James Brownian saga, featuring news from "Broadcasting & Cable" magazine, that CNN's reprehensible Nancy Grace actually sent a mock e-mail to her own staff mockingly claiming that she, Grace, was the father of Ms. Smith's infant child.
"I'm the father!" read the message, which according to the magazine was delivered to the Headline News witch's kitchen staffers on the 9th of this month, and led to several of them returning fire, to the same effect.
That was the day after Ms. Smith died.
It would be eight more days before Ms. Smith's body was finally embalmed, this past Saturday.
Smith's burial -- whether it be by her mother, Virgie Arthur -- or by her companion, Howard K. Stern -- still awaits a Florida judge's decision.
Meantime, the Bahamian immigration minister accused of giving Ms. Smith special treatment in granting her permanent residency there has resigned his post.
Photographs surfaced a week ago of Shane Gibson and Ms. Smith embracing on a bed... described by Mr. Gibson as "completely innocent".
