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Nancy Grace Angrily Cuts Mic Of Joran van der Sloot Friend: ‘Take Him Off The Screen!’

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In a contentious interview, HLN’s Nancy Grace cut off the mic of Joran van der Sloot friend John Ludwick after he blamed Sloot’s victim for her murder. “You are saying that the murder victim who endured a brutal beating a super human strangulation where her neck bone was crushed, the room covered in blood, her clothes ripped off of her postmortem and left that way to be found, it’s her fault?!” Grace exclaimed incredulously. “Sir, you know what, cut his mic, John Ludwick, I reserve this for very very few people, but you sir, are a fool. And what you have said sets victims rights back, hmmm, maybe a couple hundred years, take him off the screen, I don’t wanna look at him anymore!”

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Ludwick had earlier defended van der Sloot, saying he didn’t deserve the death penalty and that it was a crime of passion.

“She put herself in the situation Nancy!” Ludwick argued. “As soon as she found out who he was, she should have left, she shouldn’t have started an argument and fighting with him, and being in an isolated area…If I was a woman and I was in her situation I surely wouldn’t have stood around to ask him that question, I would have got out of there.”

Watch Grace call Ludwick a fool and cut off his mic below via HLN:

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  • NDanielson

    Wow. A generation of people who take responsibility for NOTHING, whine about EVERYTHING, and blame everybody but themselves for where they are in life. That sounds just like an American liberal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Murphy/1788049486 Jamie Murphy

    “Take him off the screen I don’t want to see his face…” talk about ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    Joran Van Der Sloot should be sentenced by the Court in Peru to life in prison, together with several weeks of torture consisting of being Nancy Grace’s dancing partner in the new season of “Dancing With The Stars”!

  • Gloves Van Donahue

    Got away with it in Aruba and did it again in Peru. Why is this slug drawing breath?

  • Anonymous

    How does this idiot even know that she didnt try and leave the room? Was he in the room too?  We will probably see him in the near future for the same thing.  And really…PTSD? Now I have heard it all.

  • http://twitter.com/SlopeReader Slope Reader

    Wow, isn’t he stupid. Why in the world would he ever go on this show to appear so patently stupid? How is this going to  help the guy at all? Will it make employers want to hire him? Will it make parents happy that their daughters are going to date the guy?

  • Anonymous

    Trollolololol!!

  • Anonymous

    Well, like most stupid people, he doesn’t know he’s stupid. He probably thinks he’s pretty smart! His mommy’s been telling him so for years!

  • Anonymous

    Hey, don’t paint with so broad a brush. I have kids that prove you’re theory wrong. Lots of us do. Well, some of us do, anyway…

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    They don’t have any crimes in Peru with a life sentence. The most he can get is either 10 or 20 years

  • Centrist79

    Kid is a moron, but I suspect Nancy Grace had an idea where this interview was going before it started.

  • Kathy Pearl

    John Ludwick has a facebook page. 

  • Anonymous

    Dear Nancy,
    Don’t assume you’ve got a face worth seeing, either.

    Love, Earth.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe if it was someone other then Nancy Grace doing this, I could take it more seriously

  • Anonymous

    she was ignorant?  Are you for real?

    Blaming the victim and giving him an ongoing platform would be ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    It’s too bad Nancy Grace is such a lightweight interviewer, I would really like to have seen someone with tougher skills knock the stupid out of that creep.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Diggs/100003340915420 Keith Diggs

    TYPICAL RON PAUL SUPPORTER , OWS STREET PUDDLE CUDDLER!

  • Anonymous

    The sentence of imprisonment would be irrelevent!  By the time Nancy gets done with him, he will be pushing up flowers and they will never find the body!

  • AMP2020

    HOLY CRAP!!!

    THIS INTERVIEW IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE! MY JAW IS DROPPED LISTENING TO THIS GUY!

    Wow! Just wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Too bad everyone goes into the cliche “Nancy Grace is…” blah blah blah. She’s fine… Just like every other blow-hard on cable. Deal with it and move on.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Nancy got pretty riled up.  I thought she was gonna pop a nip!

  • Anonymous

    That his friend was willing to just take the word of a murderer about what happened renders him one incredibly stupid SOB. I can’t bear to watch Nancy Grace, but in this instance, good on her! I only wish she’d really ripped into that misogynistic, apologist POS before ditching him.

  • Michael T.

    Some nights Grace comes across as a tireless crime fighter.

    But there are other nights when she injects drama and confrontation that look suspiciously like a ratings ploy.

    I think this interview was more of the latter.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly, if the girl suspected she would be murdered for a comment, she wouldn’t have made it. But this is a world where Van Der Sloot and his friends, and probably some of the people on this thread, know they can get away with treating women like sh*t, they have been for years.  Even Reddit has a page celebrating men demeaning women.  I love Nancy but, you know, she have more weapons to hand than disbelieve and moral outrage.

  • Anonymous

    Putting the POS on TV in the first place was ignorant as well.

  • bob ross

    Two people dancing on the grave of a dead girl for money…Nothing more nothing less.

  • NDanielson

    That sounds just like most of our liberal American youth.

    Must have missed that completely, huh?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks.  I didn’t need the breakfast I was digesting this morning anyway.

  • Anonymous

    Wow.  ”Nancy Grace angrily…”

    Didn’t see those words coming.  

    It blows me away that so many of you idiots take her seriously. *rolls up newspaper* No. No. BAD. BAD!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-McKenzie/100001703816375 Liz McKenzie

    Wow … there is something I actually agree with you on.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I’m wondering if Nancy is capable of having a reaction that isn’t always over the top??

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5DJ2CNADNVOWKHTRSPI4TA5EZU Eddy

    just another reason not to view her “show” wah wah wah!!! you’re cut off!  very professional nancy!

  • david r

    I’m thinking broken broom handle.

  • Anonymous

    Wouldn’t it be great if Van Der Sloot and Casey Anthony hooked up, had kids and the kids later impregnated Nancy Grace’s twins?  (When they were all legal, of course.) 

  • Anonymous

    Nancy the Hutt was understandably surprised to find that a person who was asked to come on her program and defend V.D.Sloot came on her program and defended him.

    You could have knocked her over with a cruise missile.

  • Blaine Magee

    I normally despise Nancy Grace but you know what that f’ing rocks…Good for her to cut off an interview with someone who is going to try to defend a murderer by saying it’s the victims fault. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Sounds more like the GOP, if you must turn this into a political bashing thread instead of comments about a young man who brutally murdered one, possibly two, women…

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t doubt if John Ludwick wished he was the one who did the killing.

  • Jay Hanig

    Van der Sloot is a stone cold killer.  Did anyone expect his friends to be of higher caliber?  And if Van der Sloot isn’t killed in prison, his body count will continue to climb.  It won’t be his fault, of course.

  • Anonymous

    Actually it sounds like every person working on Wall Street.

  • WJM Knight

    Well, Nancy should know what it’s like to kill someone, after all, she did drive Melinda Duckett to committ suicide after appearing on her show so Nancy could get all PMS over her. As far as I;m concerned, Nancy Grace is as much a murderer as Joran.

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    This has got to be Obama’s fault somehow.

  • http://twitter.com/sleuthjen Jennifer B

    What a moronic loser. Ludwig is what is wrong with this world–what an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    How can anybody expect justice anyplace when the advocate, Nancy Grace, is written about as if she never had this guy on her show or if others on her network that she surely knew about had him?  If I have seen him and I have and it was on HLN either the reporting here is not up to par or she had him on to get disgusted with him and cut off his mike, all pre-planned.  

    HLN has had this dangerous friend of Joran’s on before.  They should know he could easily copy Joran’s ways and they should know that a psych evaluation would be in order for this nut case.  So when they have him on at least a second time, the other night, they empower a sick puppy and he is loose walking our streets.  When HLN does a program on why some women write to prisoners in jail and questions their sanity, why don’t they look at a male follower of a male criminal? 

  • Anonymous

    I want to say something about the Nancy Grace show on Friday night, right after Joran was sentenced.  Maybe it will get to them.  How dumb is it really to have reported on this case since Natalee Holloway went missing and on Friday evening they do not do one thing on the sentencing?  Instead they found a wacko new mother of twins who put them in the trunk of her car to die and had a bunch of defense attorneys crying that this woman has psychological issues.  They did this for their entire time on the air, sans commercials and CNN heroes, so maybe they were on for 20 minutes.  Now had I not been preparing food for my dog I would have had to change the channel and look for somebody else, (O’Reilly perhaps, as even he mentioned van der Sloot).  But the queen of justice for all not only had a guest host but one who neglected the sentencing in Peru.  Brilliant thinking.  No wonder half the people calling in sound like they come from the Ozarks.  They probably didn’t know the difference.  They transferred their asinine questions over to the subject of the new killer mom.  Obviously they do what they are told. 

  • paumaparrot

    When Nancy Grace was on DWTS, she campaign on her nightly
    HLN show urging her followers to pick up the phone and vote, in fact vote
    multiple times so she could stay on the show.

    Her mantra was “I am giving ALL the money I earn from the
    show to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.”

    Well, she earned over $250,000+ and they have yet to see a
    penny of it.

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