Agreed. In all honesty, I cannot say that if I had not been confronted with a similar shock to my system that I would not have blown a gasket in exactly the same way.
We have been watching George and Cindy try to negotiate the five stages of grief in a very public way. The first two stages are denial and anger, and they are not pretty to watch. Compound the problem with the fact that they have a daughter who is widely hated - a daughter who they loved despite the faults they were aware of - and that only serves to make what they are going through seem even worse.
I watched the videos of yesterday's confrontation at Blanchard Park. For the first four minutes it was clear to me that Cindy was a distraught wreck. It was not until the crowd started yelling at her that she grew truly hot - kind of like whacking a hornet's nest with a stick.
Cindy's handling of the case at the beginning, while unfortunate and unhelpful, was her way of going through the first stage of grief: denial. Unfortunately people got to watch and had an opportunity to disagree with her. All that did was make matters worse.
The biggest problem, I believe, was LP showing up. He may have had good intentions and I certainly did not foresee what would happen, but his getting into the middle of the case blew things up. In hindsight, if LP had never bailed their daughter out then the protests at their house would not have occurred, there would have been significantly less face time in the news and a lot less opportunity for people to draw rather strong opinions about the Anthony. They would have had a lot fewer people whacking the hornets nest with a stick, and they would probably be a lot further along in the grieving process.
My opinion.
