Darlie has made sure, many times since the Silly String tape, to be photographed and filmed crying and sobbing. Crying and sobbing are Darlie's stock in trade, for God's sake. That woman can cry at the drop of a hat and sometimes you don't even have to drop the hat. There might be pygmies in the Amazon who know what Darlie looks like after she's been crying.
Look carefully at the Silly String tape and you can see, very plainly, that she has not been crying.
People grieve differently, I will give you that. After my grandfather died, I went to a bar with my cousins and we all got roaring drunk and told stories about him. We worshipped the man and it was very cathartic for us to do that after his death. I can think of a lot of people who would think it was disrespectful, etc. for us to go out and drink like that. But the day of his funeral we were devastated, and some of us still can't go to his grave without crying, three years later.
What her apologists seem to ignore when they excuse her behavior with "Everyone grieves differently" is that Darlie supposedly witnessed -- and was unable to prevent -- the brutal stabbing of her two small children a week prior to the Silly String incident.
Let me reemphasize this: Darlie did not watch her puppy get run over by a car -- she supposedly watched a maniac stab her children to death. She should have been completely unhinged by the event. She should have been in bed with the covers pulled up over her head, unable to even function without help and counsel. I am not saying that because I think I know how people should grieve, it's a simple statement of fact. Reams have been written about how devastating it is to lose a child for any reason; women are affected emotionally and mentally for years because of miscarriage and that's losing a child they've never even met. The mother-child bond, in emotionally healthy people, is just that strong. I know a couple of women who have lost children to accident or illness and I can't think of a single one who would be laughing, chomping gum, and squirting Silly String over the graves of their recently murdered babies in front of the news media 8 days -- or even 8 years -- after the fact. No one. Not a single person. Really.
My whole take on the Silly String episode is that not only is Darlie conscienceless, she's also stupid.
