Casey Anthony: What’s up with her public relations? --Hal

Jose Baez scored a victory with Casey Anthony’s acquittal that still has people talking. He won, no matter what you think of him.

But his approach to public relations since then has been sometimes baffling.

Consider his comment to TMZ.com comparing Anthony and Amanda Knox and calling them “all-American girls.”

It was a comment to leave you scratching your head. Really?

Baez expanded on the comment in talking to WESH-Channel 2’s Amanda Ober. “I don’t know what an all-American girl is, but by appearances, they’re the girl next door,” Baez told the NBC affiliate. “I think it’s contributed to the media fascination.”

I guess linking Anthony to Knox could help keep the fascination high.

But calling Anthony an all-American girl or the girl next door? That’s a sales job that will have few takers.

And do these comments help Anthony as she secretly serves probation for check fraud somewhere in Florida? She was acquitted of murder in July in the 2008 killing of her daughter, Caylee.

WFTV-Channel 9 highlighted other Baez comments to TMZ. ”Baez told TMZ that he was happy for Knox when the verdict was overturned and applauded her parents for sticking by her, unlike Casey Anthony’s,” anchor Martie Salt said.

Take that, George and Cindy Anthony.

To talk or not to talk? That is the question for Jose Baez, and I’m thinking that hushing might be the best way to go when the topic is Casey Anthony. What do you think?


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