myob shapiro style

Great article from Jeffrey Scott Shapiro about JonBenet; my sentiments, exactly - -

Leave JonBenet Alone
Posted in FOXnews Forum
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Recently, FoxNews.com reported that John Mark Karr, a cleared suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case and reputed pedophile, was the subject of a new national law enforcement investigation because he’s trying to “create a cult of JonBenet Ramsey lookalikes.”

Tragically, Karr’s sick obsession with JonBenet Ramsey is part of a larger epidemic that started over a decade ago when her murder was highly publicized by the national media...

Sadly, there’s more to it than that, and I realize that now.

JonBenet was a real person. She was a little girl who lived and loved like the rest of us. She laughed and she cried. She went to school and she played when she got home. She was a real human being.

Millions of Americans however, have turned her into an icon, a symbol, and even a sick, sexualized object of obsession. She has been immortalized within a cult much like the Kennedy assassination, Sharon Tate murder and the deaths of Jim Morrison and John Lennon, but in a perverse way.

Just think for one moment how it would feel if your six-year old daughter or sister was brutally tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered – and was then talked about, obsessed over and even sexualized. It’s almost incomprehensible to imagine the pain, heartbreak and outrage the Ramsey family must continue to feel...

Other than that however, JonBenet’s family deserves peace and privacy. It’s time to leave JonBenet – and her family alone..."[read more]

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is an investigative journalist and former Washington, D.C. prosecutor who has researched and reported the JonBenet Ramsey case for 13 years.

reputation management

From the outside it looks like it has been a wild ride for attorney Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, starting with taking on his employer back when he was a tabloid reporter covering the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation. He contradicted the media persecution of the Ramsey's and proposed the possibility that an unknown male may have killed JonBenet before anyone else was willing to whisper that possibility that has since been proven true. Now in another bold move, he is stepping up to cure the tarnished reputation of our past President George W Bush. Yes, I think W really needs some help in this area, however doing so may be risky in opening another can of worms many folks remain incredibly passionate about. It's a tall order in front of Shapiro and I have to give him credit; the guy has stamina and guts. Admirable. At the same time I have to wonder what advice he might have for undoing the years of demonization of the innocent parents and brother of a brutally murdered 6 year old - -

The Bush Restoration Project
Published in Slate
By Jordan Michael Smith

"Jeffrey Scott Shapiro talks about George W. Bush the way Buddhists talk about the Dalai Lama.... It's hardly surprising, then, that Shapiro founded Honor Freedom, an organization devoted to restoring Bush's reputation. And Shapiro may actually succeed—especially since Bush, too, will be working on the same project, if not the same organization.

Shapiro's views of the media were shaped by experience. After covering the JonBenét Ramsey case for the Globe tabloid as a reporter, he voluntarily reported his editors to the FBI for criminal violations and testified against them in a grand jury as a key witness. Shapiro says his coverage of the Ramsey case and the Chandra Levy case led him to resent the media's abuse of the First Amendment, which "probably led to my feelings about the media lies told about President Bush."

...And though Shapiro's cause may seem unlikely, it's possible—even likely—that Bush's popularity will at least partially recover..."[read more]