Hulk Hogan: Celebrity Parenting on Trial
Art Harris on Nancy Grace: Hulk Hogan Bought Beer Day of Crash
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An excerpt from CNN’s The Nancy Grace Show, featuring Art Harris with little known details of Nick Bollea’s crash:
–The unsolved mystery of Nick’s .034 blood alcohol level: what did he drink and when did he drink it on the day of the tragic crash that put ex-Marine John Graziano in a VA hospital, brain-damaged… and landed Baby Hulk in the Pinellas County Jail for 8 months, whining about a reckless driving plea and calling the victim a “negative person?”
–Was Nick drinking beer Daddy bought before noon on crash day when Nick and friends hit the intercoastal on Hulk Hogan’s boat after Dad bought at least three cases of Miller Lite and Corona at Albertson’s liquor store?
Hulk told assistant state attorney Scott Rosenwasser he didn’t see it if he did, and he was with Baby Hulk all day, except for a 45 minute period back at the house. “I have my doubts,” Roswenwasser told me, “but that was his sworn statement.”
Moreover, Hulk denies taking Nick into the liquor store, or that he saw the boy sipping any alcohol that day; the liquor store clerk, however, told police Nick did come in with his friends when Daddy stocked up.
So why wasn’t Nick charged with drunk driving? For one, .034 is under the legal blood alcohol limit of .08. Yet, it’s certainly evidence an underage youth consumed alcohol, right?
True, BUT no one could or would testify they witnessed Baby Hulk guzzling any of the Coronas or Miller Lites Daddy bought, or sneaking away to indulge otherwise. Tough case to prove.
However, you can bet the victim’s attorney, George Tragos, will be sending investigators to follow up for the upcoming civil suit for negligence against Hulk, Mama Hulk and Nick, and if one of Nick’s pals who was there that day suddenly has a flash of memory that contradicts sworn statements, well, let the fireworks begin.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I think that was a very informative piece Art. The fact that Hulk was present in the car and liquor store does not bode well for him and while it shows a father who is trying to forge a great relationship with his son, it also shows a father who is being irresponsible in the process. The whole situation is sad. The taped phone conversation and testimony from the Grazianos show that Nick has been unrepentive and is more concerned with his prison sentence than the life of his friend. In Hulk’s case his reputation has taken a huge hit from Nick’s actions and most of the negative sentiments from the media seem to have stuck to Hulk the most. It will be interesting to see how or if Nick has changed once he has completed his sentence.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
You’ve nailed the issues. Thanks for your dead-on comments.
Art
June 19th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
It’s a shame.
But, hope is a wonderful thang…”maybe the best of things.”
Some learn the hard way, some never learn, some even get away with murder…and yet, they don’t…does OJ have a conscience that will always haunt him and his children and Cawlings (sp?)???
What about ‘those’ that ‘defended’ him? What did they lose, or sacrifice?
Smile…you’re on Camera, LOL.
Easy to judge, harder to forgive, impossible to forget.
Dear Art,
How is HKS?
June 19th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
When my son went for his learners permit one of the questions was , What is the blood alcohol limit in a person under the age of 21?
a. 1.0
b. .08
c. .00
d. .02
If I remember correctly these were his choices.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
legal BAC limit for drivers younger than age 21 at 0.00 or 0.02 percent
June 19th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I was searching for ‘Bliss on Tap’ and found this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTN-NPtNOHU
What I was looking for was Al Pacino, LOL.
And what does ‘THIS’ have to do with ‘THAT.’
What does ‘is’ mean?
LOL
What a hoot!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Hey here’s a bright idea…how about turning on your kids to being straight?
But, meanwhile my rich neighbors are wattering their lawns and irrogating and breaking the law…just a misdomeaner (sp?).
Gosh, when it gets right down to it…what the heck are we doing?
Prying on someone else’s life, delving into somethings and judging because that’s easier than looking inside?
Or maybe some are like Joni…to good to be true?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
…too, good…double ‘o’
Reminds me of Obama and Oprah, LOL.
That was a ‘typo’ and my mistake…
…some like Joni…TOO good to be true?
None of us are perfect…not even Art!
Gosh, I even wonder if God is perfect, and I wonder how on earth he could forgive us?
Did you ever think that maybe God is just a man?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:19 am
…cast the first stone…elect Obama!
A daddy of two little girls and…
Whoops…I’m off n another tangent.
Whould it not be nice to forgive, and not be ‘prejudiced?’
Some parents would rather ‘get high’ with their children, because they think that might be better.
Reminds me of Anna.
Nancy has a lot of leaps of faith to make….hope she has a lot of help becuase I see the money running out and her career ending…
Yet maybe then maybe she could be all she ever wanted to be….
Reminds me of of a ’slogan.’
June 20th, 2008 at 1:45 am
This is going to be interesting how it plays out in court. Underage celebs. and children of celebs get into clubs in LA and get drunk every night but you see no out cry from the public. Lindsey Lohan was a drunk before she turn 21 and could legally drink. The clubs let her in because it was good pr for them. LA distict attorney has never gone after these clubs for underage drinking. People where giving Drew Barrymore and Tatum Oneil drinks and drugs before they where teenagers. Remember the end of the movie THE BAD NEWS BEARS? All the kids got beer! The Graziano/Hogan story is just a small part of this epidemic.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:15 am
I know that Hogan’s attorney will say that John is partially to blame for his condition so I would like to ask some questions.
1) did John know Nick was drinking before the accident and if so why did he get into the car?
2) did John know Nick liked to race his car?
3) was it usually for John not to wear his safety belt?
4) did John drink underage and did he ever buy alcohol for others?
5)did John ever race cars?
Now I know everyone is going to scream at me but I think Hogan’s attorney will argue that even though Nick is at fault not all the blame is his. And the only adult in the car should have taken Nick’s keys away from him. Several times my Aunt tried to drive and I took the keys right out of the ignition. I know each side will try to destroy the other but sometimes the truth doesn’t come out in court.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:38 am
I will wait and see to see if Nick has changed, but IMO I don’t think he will. He’s already shown some of that to me once he started complaining in jail that he was in isolation and wanted to be out in general population. How does he think his friend feels, that poor soul is stuck in his own head for the rest of his life! I’ve talked to other’s about this situation and one had said, “well nobody pointed a gun to John’s head and made him ride with Nick, he also had a choice to wear his seat belt.” Which is all true. But nobody know’s for sure what was being said in Nick’s car. John could have been urging him to slow down and telling him that he’s scaring him, and Nick could have not been listening. I have been in several ppl’s cars where they were driving way to fast for me and I was telling them to slow down, and yet they didn’t.
But like I’ve said in other posts. Nick shouldn’t be the only one on the chopping block. His parents should be too!!
June 20th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I do not believe that Hulk Hogan did not know or see his son drinking.
It seems that Hulk is trying to be a Father and a Friend to Nick, BUT… Maybe more a friend
As a father would NOT allow his son to do speeds of over 100mph while Daddy was in the car, on several occisions.
A Dad would of NOT given his son a car that had all that horsepower under the hood.
A Dad would of taken the keys away when Nick got his first ticket for speeding and driving more then 100mph, he just turned 17 he had his lisence less then a year legally.
A Dad would NOT condone Nick’s actions, and LACK of remorse for John Grazio.
Now… A friend may of thought Nick’s driving was cool.
Hulk needs to start being a FATHER to his son, and not his buddy.
Wrestling story lines are fake and maybe Hulk was on the road way to long, BUT HE NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND SEE that John is NEVER gonna walk out of the hospital, and his son’s actions ARE REALITY..
HULK be a father and NOT your son’s buddy.
REALITY IS MONEY IS NOT GONNA MAKE ALL THIS GO AWAY, No matter if your Hulk Hogan or a regular joe shmo..
June 20th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
These kind of irresponsible parents are all around us and it is time an example is made out of them.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Freida,
I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again, I’m NOT perfect, far from it, but what I say here is TRUE, believe it or not.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:09 am
Sarafina,
I agree with you. It’s time people stop making all kinds of excuses for these kids and their parents.
How can you expect the kids to turn out right when the parents are not better. I still think something should be done about Hulk and providing the alcohol to these kids, also with him riding right beside his son while he was going over 100 miles an hour.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:46 am
What I’d like to know is why is a person who doesn’t drink ridiculed so. What is it to anyone else if a person doesn’t drink. Why is that wrong with not drinking. Even my kids tease me because I won’t drink. What is the big thing about drinking? When my oldest son married, I was telling my rehumotologist (sp) that I would be going to my son’s wedding that weekend and he said, don’t drink too much and I said I don’t drink and he looked at me like I was crazy. He said to have at least one drink and I said no. Guess what I drank at the reception? I had a Coke. My one son wanted to get me something else and I said, no, just a Coke. When he brought me the coke and I tasted it, it tasted funny and I accused him of having them put something in it even though he said he didn’t. Anyway I couldn’t drink it, because it didn’t taste right.
I was raised to believe it’s wrong to drink, not the other way around. I don’t like alcohol, nor do I like to be around people that drink too much.
You can make fun of me all you want, but in the end, the joke is on you. Just please stay off the roads if you’ve been drinking.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I read the Graziano lawsuit filed against all three Bollea’s. H Hogan must be a fool to put his wealth at risk by keeping those vehicles titled in his personal name. I am thinking Hogan/Bollea must have large liability policy coverage; an umbrella policy of ten million or more would not be unusual for high net worth individuals. Is there any way to find out the details of his insurance policy coverage? Even if Hulk escapes personal financial disaster as a result of adequate liability insurance, I dont see how he can recover his reputation for use in the future. His brand is destroyed.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Jimbo:
Brilliant analysis of a brand and PR nightmare.
It’s a case study on how not to manage a tragedy the victim’s lawyer argues flowed from parental negligence? Can’t you see a civil jury of hard-working, solid citizen parents hearing how the Bolleas bought hot cars for a hot dog son, letting him drive after, what, maybe a half dozen speeding tickets, including one for 115 mph when DAD was in the car, and the boy (or Hulk for all we know) talked the Florida State Trooper out of an earlier speeding ticket.
My calls to Troop F’s PIO, in charge of the Alligator Alley area, have yet to be returned.
Meanwhile, can you imagine a civil jury hearing the sheriff’s tapes of Nick whining, talking about turning this into a reality show, and Hulk Daddy saying, ‘Yeah, I’ll get you the best deal and make you an owner,’ and both dissing the brain-damaged Marine who’d survived IEDs in Iraq only to fall victim to a quasi-drunk punk terrorist back home?
Then comes the battle of the tapes: after the sheriff released the Bollea Family whining and complaining to each other, and the public went, yuk, a radio talk host named Bubba releases the let’s feel sympathy for Hulk threat tapes? And victim John Graziano’s home video of the victim getting rehabed at the VA hospital airs on Nancy Grace.
Excuse me.
Check and mate.
The future civil jury might just as well mail in their verdict. Hulk ego may believe he can manipulate a tragedy like fake blood on WCW, but there’s no sympathy for the devil here.
Veteran Hollywood PR man Howard Bragman winced on Showbiz Tonight that Hulk and family just didn’t know when to shut up. They must have been delusional to think Hulk’s Doright God-name dropping image would conquer public doubts.
Has good old fashioned praying for the victim gotten lost in the shuffle of Mama Hulk claiming she loved the victim more than his own mother? That she’s in it for the moolah, And boo-hooing, “She’s not suffering, I am!”
They better have a big homeowners, but I chalk it up to someone who is used to wrestling writers writing him out of any corner. Real life isn’t like that. You do something stupid, you just might get body-slammed.
Hogan Knows Best? If I were the network, I’d can the show title immediately: it’s only a salt in the wound reminder Hogan’s good guy image is toast. As a top bidnessman like you would know, goodwill is invaluable, an intangible asset that’s gone South for in this case.
Though I can see South Park using this to certainly pump their ratings and bottom line.
Thanks for writing.
Art
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 am
I’m for saving grace…not saving one face.
I still think that more than likely ‘The Media’ surrounding this story aren’t stupid.
But, hey what about that mess in Texas? Did they just send all those kids back home?
“It’s the thrill of the chase” and a new/news story…this one, too will be old soon and we’ll never know the outcome unless we want to search really hard for it.
Some guy died in his ‘Funny Car’ today, and in another state a couple of Motorcycle racers were airlifted to hospital(s)…
There may have been a fatality…I hope not.
But you know I still think I made a pretty good suggestion for ‘The Hulk.’
All is not lost…
Really wish he was smart and not so ‘physical.’
Wish his wife was, too.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 am
Just one more thing, LOL.
Seems I always have more to say.
Dale Earnhard knew the ‘trick of his trade.’
And, everybody loved him, why?
I got to see him race once, when all of his tires fell off…
That’s the circus for you, I guess? Wonder if ‘it was staged?’
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
Darn stupid wrestlers, and football players, and racers, and such.
I really liked baseball, and softball (for girls)…
But there ain’t no money in that..
Why doesn’t ‘good’ draw a crowd…
Kinda like people only go to those sporting events to see the gore and guts and blood and teeth flying…
What the heck is wrong with us?
As far as I’m concerned wrestling, and boxing, and racing are war sports…
Holding someone down that is weaker by nature, punching someone in the face that wasn’t as fast to react and last but not least…
some just want to feel that life is fast and then it’s done and over.
And, you know what that’s true, only thing is that we should chew a little slower and savor every bite.
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 am
Dear Joni,
Are you a Morman?
Just wishing and wondering.
I know for one thing, in this painful world we live in, it’s really good to have people like you that make comments that we can read.
You know EJ corrected me once when I was not being realistic..
and I so look up to you wise women and wonder what it’s like to have been given the life you have.
You must have wonderful parents that loved you very much…I wonder how many children they had, and how they were afforded their educations, and you know I wonder about a lot of things…
Sure would be nice to read the truth…even if it costs a little more money!!!
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 am
And even if a man ‘enlists’ or even if he used to be ‘drafted’ does that automatically give him some kind of licence or like he’s really ‘good.’
Was Nick’s friend really, really good, or better?
I kinda surmise there’s more to ‘This Story.’
You know those young people have access to all kinds of stuff…
And, even if…you just never know.
Wonder why Nancy’s fiance was murdered, wonder what ‘That Story that was never told’ is all about.
Guess we’ll never know about ‘him’ or ‘HKS.’
Too, much money at stake, to risk…
So many stories get cut short of a conclusion.
And, sure would be nice to read those happy endings…
Like Jane says, “There’s always more to a story.”
Seems, that most of The Media just abrubtly stops short of telling fortunes.
‘They are in the business of making money, and never telling us the…
“And Now For The Rest Of The Story”
Wonder if Paul will be rememebered and revered and put on a pedestal like Russert?
Probably not…because, and only because he didn’t have those ‘bosses.’
Dear Art,
Do you ever wonder if you are wrong? Do you ever have any doubt about ‘that’? Do you ever just do your job to make money?
I think I know the answer.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
If you encourage bad behavior and than get hurt are you not partially to blame? “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” My dad was a policeman and he could never understand how people put themselves in bad situations and then blamed everyone else but themselves. “If your asking for trouble, you’ll find it.”
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I know everyone hates me right now but I think I have a valued point. If you spent the day with someone and their underage and have been drinking how much responsibilty is it of you to take the keys from them? He may be drunk, he may not but he is underage and you are a legal adult.
when my aunt died all the “kids” sat around and talked about when we realized that my aunt was a terrible driver. No one would get in the car with her. Preteens and we knew better than to go for a ride with our aunt.
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Freida,
No I’m not a Morman, lol. I’m a United Methodist. Actually we consider the Mormans among other churhes, cults, because they stray from the Bible and make up their own rules. I don’t even go to church very often anymore, but I do try to practice what I’ve been taught, in my everyday life. As far as my parents, I had a very good mother and a father that didn’t want any of us and left us know that everyday of our lives. He punished my mother for having us, by not getting her any modern convience to make her or our life easier. We could have had it better, but he enjoyed meteing out his punishment instead. He actually got a big kick out of it. He used to put me down when I was a little girl and then when I cried, he’d laugh at me and make fun of me all the more. His whole family were drunks. The only time my grandfather visited us (and they lived nearby) was when he was drunk, and my grandmother never visited us. I guess they didn’t want any grandchildren as much as my father didn’t want any kids. I guess my father had good teachers and they spoiled him rotten. He thought he could do anything he pleased and did. Sort of like these spoiled brats we see in the news nightly. I thank God for having the good mother we had. I have three older sisters Freida.
Freida, education beyond highschool wasn’t an option. My dad didn’t want any of us to have it good. He tried his best to hold us down the way he did our mother. We all got out of there as soon as we could. It’s just that my mother was fairly strict, but not too strict. She wanted what was best for us. I guess she just drummed things into our heads and we heeded what she said, I, more than my sisters.
I really wasn’t going to say anymore on this subject, because I feel badly that I’ve been taking up too much space here and also, it was hurting me too much, and I also didn’t want to turn Art’s readers away, but since you posted to me, I’ll try to explain little bit of what it’s like where I live, then maybe some of you can understand where I’m coming from.
I guess most people, unless they live in an area like mine, have no idea what the people here are like. It’s very rural, nothing but rolling farm country between mountain ranges and a few very small towns and villages. We have to drive 40 to 50 miles to the nearest mall. There is a larger town with some shopping in the next county, though. We do have a new fourlane road that goes through the area, lol. Are we progressing or what, lol.
There is a very high concentration of Amish and Mennonites throughout this county, and surrounding ones. There is something here called the Mennonite Disaster Unit and everytime anything happens, they are all there to help out and rebuild. They are very organized and don’t have to be asked. They go all over the country and possibly even the world to help out in any disaster. They have a canning project once a year and they donate the meat and can it, to ship out to the needy in other places. I’ve never seen any one people like the Mennonites for their charity and caring for all people. In disasters, they quickly load up tractor and trailer trucks, with needed goods and move them out the the disaster areas. More people could learn alot from them. When farmers in other states need hay for their animals because of drought there, or any other things they may need for whatever reason, our local farmers, including the Mennonites, truck the needed goods to these people to help them out. Farmers in alot of states do this for each other. The Amish help out only their own people, I think.
Unfortunately, there are too many people who only care about themselves in this world and what they can do to make themselves feel good. They have so much they could give to people who truly need it, but that doesn’t concern them. All they care about is their own petty little lives, their parties, their drinking and drugs, thus the garbage we see of those pitiful little lives, disinigrating, on TV nightly. I can’t even bear to watch any of it, it is so sickening. Why don’t the news channels talk about all the truly good deeds so many people are doing, then maybe, just maybe others will be encouraged to do the same. I have a friend whose husband and 16 year old son went to do missionary work one summer in a third world country. How many teens would give up their summer to do that? Can’t you see Paris Hilton, or Nicky Bollea doing something like that, LOL? I do hope he has to help take care of his friend at some point and Hulk should be made to help to physically take care of him too, since he contributed to the whole thing.
The people I have grown up with and lived with all my life are pretty much like me. I know it’s hard for some of you to believe the things I say, but I can swear, I’m telling the truth. It’s very hurtful and frustrating when someone refuses to believe the truth and goes even further to deliberately hurt me for telling it. It’s not my intention to make people think I’m better than anyone else, because I’m not, but I do tell you the truth.
I’m not the only one who doesn’t drink. There are many, many people in this area who have never even tasted alcohol and never will. I know many people who don’t drink. Most of the people in my area have lived here all their lives and so have their parents and their grandparents and so on. It’s a very pastoral, peaceful setting and it’s also beautiful. Our local supermarket even has a place at the end of the building with a hitching post for the Amish horse and buggies, lol.
There is very little crime and we can keep our windows and doors wide open in the summer all night long without being afraid someone will press out the screening and enter. Can people in other places do that? Not too many years ago, we could leave our house all day long and not even lock our doors. We used to live in town and would go away and never locked our doors. We live outside of town now and things have changed a little over the past years, mainly due to drugs, but it’s still pretty safe. We have a small shed with our mower and snowblower in, also alot of other tools and there is no lock on the door. We have lived in our present house for 31 years and no one has ever entered our shed. We go on vacation and come home and everything is still there. There is alot of traffic that goes by our house too. It’s not that we are isolated.
I remember a few years ago, in the next county, a big Amish barn burned down. It was arson. Well the big media picked up on this story and Jamie Gangel went there and did a story for the Today Show. She wanted the viewers to believe it was the non Amish, local people that did it and tried made a big thing out of it. Hmmmm, doesn’t that sound familiar. Well, it wasn’t that at all. It was one of their own who burned it down. The media quickly forgot about the story, (they also had alot of egg on their faces, lol). There wasn’t any fun in that. They couldn’t keep on trying to pit the local people against the Amish. What they didn’t understand, is that we all grow up and live together and there is no animosity between the two, at least none that I’m aware of.
The people get along well with the Amish here. We all do business with them. They all seem to have a small business of various kinds on the side (from their farming). In fact that shed I mentioned we have, had been built by hand, by an Amish man, we had gone to, to have it built. It’s so solid and well constructed, and it’s as sturdy today as it was when we had it built 30 years ago, except for the roof that had finally gone bad and I put a new one on it myself. I’m the handy person around the house, lol.
Art I’m so sorry to have yet another long post in, but I felt I had to answer Frieda’s post and explain a little bit of why I feel the way I do about excessive drinking among other things and the way most of the people in rural PA are, not just me. We have a whole different way of life here than these people that you talk about here have. It’s very slow paced. I would love for any of you to come and visit here and see for yourselves what it’s like and what the people here are like, at least most of them.
We have alot of people from NYC and Philadelphia and other cities, who have traveled through this area before (and fell in love with it) who come here to retire to get away from the fast pace of the cities. Some are actually younger and do their business from their home computer and drive to NYC maybe once every week or two.
Now, I hope that instead of making fun of me and my beliefs and not believing what I tell all of you (the truth), some of you (at least) will understand a little more of where I am coming from and why I feel so strongly about excessive drinking. We all have to share the highways and it would be so much safer if people wouldn’t be so selfish and get behind the wheel of a car after drinking too much or doing drugs.
And Freida, thank you for your last post to me. That is why I am posting this one, and it means alot to me, but I’m not wise, I’m just a plain ordinary practical person, lol, but thank you anyway.
And Art, thank you for letting me stand on your soap box, yet again.
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Yikes, that post looks alot longer up there than it did while it was still down in the box. For one thing the print is a little larger, sorry about that Art.
Freida, in so many instances, you seem to have a very good insight into things.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
“Celebrity Parenting On Trial”?? They are no different than
any other parent who goes through the same anguish and heartache as celebrity parents. Celebrity problems makes “good ratings”…something to rant and talk about over and over on national tv or write a story about. Every guest on these tv shows KNOWS more than the other one. It has become disgusting
to watch. Let law enforcement and the courts do their jobs for god sakes. I for one am sick of the cable show hosts in their ivory towers passing down judgement. It is out of hand.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
wilha,
I remember when I was young, just bearly, and only watching 2 channels on that TV…and a lot of static…
And now we have this internet, and doesn’t really deserve to be capitalized, does it?
“Just a tube…lights in a box…or something like that”…
Art knows the quote and the man that said it.
Strange how things never really change.
I read “The Third Wave” and “Future Shock” for nothin.’
Wonder if Art could help that ‘great white hope’ and maybe just help himself and Nancy Grace, too.
Wouldn’t it be nice for him to try, wonder if the ‘greater powers’ would let them…wonder if?
George Carlin kind of got carried away, wonder if he’s in heaven or somewhere in between?
He made ‘fun’ of God, you know…and he said things I’m sure he really didn’t mean…or rather, he just really wanted to be more funny.
Reminds me of Laura Bush, and what she said ‘for’ Michelle…what a ‘True Lady.’
Nice comment Joni!!!
Hi EJ!
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
art,
I saw you for the first time on nancy grace. . .you’re great. . .I’m very interested in this hogan story & where it goes from here. . .I was pleased to see that you do your homework unlike other reporters (ie; larry king-weakest
interview, but thats a whole other story-a disgrace to the news business) you had answers to some of the lingering questions that were out there. you filled in some of the gaps that larry left wide open & you did it w/out the interview. . .WOW. the day I saw that hogan was doing the show w/ king I said he’d cry by the end of the show. . .right on cue, that big lower lip quivered, he got the sniffles, got choked up, put on his phony actors cap & gave us a little cry. . .a tough guy cry.
I know its bad, but for the first time I really want to see someone pay for how they act & for what they say. I’ve never been so angry about how a “celebrity” deals w/ a situation. . . so arrogant & pompous. I don’t blame
the caller (lets be real, it is likely a relative of the graziano’s) for leaving those messages to hogan. this family has a lot of pain & that was an outlet, albeit a possible illegal outlet. I bet it made whomever left the message get some relief & felt temporarily better. but now he could be in some trouble. As a disclaimer I’ve got to say that I don’t justify the behavior (calls/threats), but I do understand it. With all that I’m still livid w/ the hogans and how they’re dealing w/ this whole thing, they’re idiots & one of the worst, if not worst parents I’ve seen.
I hope that you and nancy expose the hogan’s for the type of people they really are; fake, self absorbed, unsympathetic jerks. bring them down & bring them down hard!!! I think that bad things will happen to the hogan family. . . after all “it would be god’s will” as hulk would say. I really feel for graziano, he would probably be better off in not surviving the crash. I know that I’ve told my wife that if I were to ever be in a state to where “I’m” not there & I’m being kept alive by machines its time for me to go. . .that marine served proudly for the US and his life is now over because of some punk kid. . .that can’t even accept responsibility
sorry to rant, keep up the good work, you’re in my “favorites” and I’ll check your site everyday!!!
great job!!!
thanks, rob
June 24th, 2008 at 12:34 am
I can’t even imagine what I’d do if that was my son lying there in a near vegetable state. Hulk and his son need to pay big time.
They are all a bunch of sniveling yellowbellies.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:00 am
So does ‘The Hulk’ wear that ‘thing’ on his head…’cause he’s goin’ bald, too?
Buckle up!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Hi, Freida
June 24th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Gosh Art you’re good! Freida I think Art does this because he thoroughly ENJOYS it!!
I was not very interested in this story really, but now you have me going Art! I sooo enjoyed reading your post!
Hi Joni, I love you!
June 26th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Hi Sarafina, so nice to see you, love you too.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Now, if we could only hear something about dear Howard. I wonder how he is making out in his lawsuits and how he is doing in general.
I hope everything is going good for him and that he is well.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I have seen people on here asking about Howard.
On this website there is a forum, look at the top of the page, where you can discuss various topics and even start your own discussion. Check out the forum. There is some bits of information on the ANS story.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I just realized the crew is back. I thought the “family” had shrunk to Sarafina, Joni, and an occasional quick hello from Freida, and me, of course, the old faithful.
What has happened here?
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
LOL…
“HELLO”
July 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Isabel,
I think what’s happened is that there are no more stories being told about Howard, lol. They were the ones that got the most posts. It was like that on those “other” sites we used to go to also. He seems to hold everyone’s attention, I know he does mine, lol.