Tamara Holder Has a Package for Imus, No Tweeting Necessary

Tamara Holder, a Fox News legal analyst and known Democrat, was paid a high compliment recently by, of all people, Sean Hannity. “He actually said he liked hearing me on the radio with you,” she reported. “I said it’s because Imus lets me speak.”
 
She took advantage of the I-Man’s generosity today, discussing the Casey Anthony trial and the trials of Rep. Anthony Weiner, though she qualified that the former is nowhere near as fun as the latter.
 
The prosecution rested yesterday in the trial against Casey Anthony, who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her two-year old daughter Caylee, and Holder, a Chicago-based attorney, is skeptical of how the defense will try its case.
 
“Casey’s attorney said in his opening that Caylee drowned in the family pool, so he’s going to have to have some corroborating witnesses to prove that,” she said.
 
Imus wondered why the public is so fascinated with this gruesome case, and Holder supposed it’s because Casey Anthony does not appear to be insane, as many other mothers who have murdered their own children have been in the past. Unlike Lis Wiehl yesterday, Holder does not believe the outcome of this trial is so cut-and-dry.
 
“I think it’s too soon to tell,” she said. “When you look at the story of O.J. Simpson, he looked guilty—there was blood on his hands. In this situation, there isn’t even really much physical evidence. It’s all circumstantial.”
 
It’s easy, she added, for former prosecutors like Wiehl and her buddy Kimberly Guilfoyle to predict Anthony would be convicted. “But when you get into the four corners of the courtroom, all of that hate the public has disappears,” Holder said. “And you’re just looking at evidence.”
 
In other words, Holder agrees with Imus that Wiehl and “Gargoyle” don’t know what the hell they’re talking about? “Yeah, they have no clue,” she said, to Imus’s delight.
 
The two parted ways, however, on whether Rep. Weiner should resign from office in the wake of a sex scandal that has rocked his world and captivated the media for more than two weeks. “This is a guy who’s clearly in love with his junk, and that’s it,” said Holder, who thinks Weiner should get some help, but hang on to his seat in Congress.
 
“He’s a sick weirdo!” Imus cried. “Of course he should resign.”
 
Holder did not deny that Weiner is creepy; she merely insisted his constituents in Brooklyn and Queens should be the ones to decide his fate. His predicament, in her view, is not unlike that of professional athletes who find themselves in a pickle. “There’s a code of conduct in the contract, and if a guy violates it they suspend him, there’s a hearing,” she said. “He doesn’t just quit the team.”
 
That’s true. Although, as Imus noted, people like Brett Favre are (thankfully) not charged with creating policy that affects millions of Americans.
 
But Holder had more pressing matters to discuss: her uncle, famed boot maker Paul Bond, had given her a package for Imus, who unfortunately was in New Mexico today.
 
“You get your own little tape measure,” she said. “You can measure your foot.”
 
Please, please don’t give him any ideas.
 
-Julie Kanfer