The Daily Banter’s Chez Pazienza tells it like is, even when the story is disgusting and is a shining example of what is wrong with America today. Here’s an excerpt to get your horror juices flowing:
There’s a reason writer Amanda Robb begins her GQ magazine profile of George Zimmerman’s family with Robert Zimmerman’s thoughts on “rebranding” the family name. Robert, who’s been the clan’s unofficial spokesperson since his brother George killed Trayvon Martin two-and-a-half years ago, talks about his vision for a potential reality TV show starring his elder sibling. “I learn a lot from watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” he says. “Like, use the shit you’ve got.” The younger Zimmerman has all kinds of plans for rehabilitating his brother’s image and capitalizing on his infamy, including a line of security products that would bear a distinctive “Z” logo and a Candid Camera-style program that would have George surprising unsuspecting strangers, presumably not by shooting them. Robb sets the stage by making it clear why the seemingly reclusive Zimmerman family might have agreed to do an interview with GQ in the first place.
If you think George Zimmerman’s public life has played out like one big psychodrama since he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, you can’t imagine how bizarre it’s been behind the scenes. It makes sense that the Zimmermans would realize the potential peril George’s violent encounter with Trayvon Martin — and the court’s decision to let him walk for it — might put them in. But their paranoia runs so deep that it feels like it might have been a kind of dormant virus that existed all along and was either awakened by circumstance or actually led to the shooting that put them all in their current position as the family of a cultural pariah.
Read more here from The Daily Banter
