The people complaining about Camille Vazquez being too aggressive, are somewhat missing the point.
The reason at times the cross examination was a blood sport, was because it had to be. And Camille wasn't even particularly aggressive. There has been criticism of her asides and sly digs: but as any boxer knows you have to work the ribs. And at times Amber gave as good as she got: because like Cersi (of whom, often, she bore a distinct resemblance) Amber is a fighter; and in some ways the perfect villain.
But Amber hasn't learned that you can't go fifteen rounds with your chin up, sometimes you just have to tuck in, roll with the punches, and hang on for the bell, have a breather, and come out fresh for the next round.
If you stop and think about it, Camille had a game plan, a list of set questions, as Amber had a list of set answers.
What Amber doesn't have is either a brain, or the ability to listen.
For instance yesterday Camille came out jabbing with Johnny always wears rings. And Amber being deaf with arrogance, could have easily parried these blows and landed a right-hander to the neck, by pointing out - as many on these threads did - that in fact Johnnie wasn't wearing rings in many of the pictures being presented in evidence. Clearly Elaine rubbed a bit of Vaseline on her eyes, while Rottenborn administered smelling salts overnight in her corner; for Amber brought up the rings early today, only to be immediately caught with an upper cut by quoting from Amber's own testimony from yesterday.
And this happened time and again, until she was forced back on the ropes, or boxed into the corner.
What was worse was that she didn't even fight dirty. Instead of coming in close for a head butt or the odd low blow, she kept trying to dance out of trouble: instead of staying down for the mandatory count, she would leap up and just stand there and take it. This isn't brave, it's pathetic - especially when she has challenged Johnny's legal team to find the evidence, she hasn't provided, because "it's not her job."
She allowed things she had never said to be put into her mouth, she let supposed important things (like being raped) to slip past as if they never happened, and even when she did land an odd left hook that left Camille winded (like Camille's selective quoting from the record as to events of the sexual assault on Amber's birthday) too often she was left open to a follow up combination, relying on jabbing and weaving, whilst Amber was flat footed swinging haymakers (of her truth) and missing.
Like it or lump it... it is not the patriarchy, or misogyny or some other mythical God.... that landed Amber Heard in a poisonous media war: it is Amber Heard.
It was her who turned up at the courthouse for the TRO (when she didn't need to), it is her who arranged for the press to be outside (when she didn't need to), it is her who leaked the photos to People magazine (when she didn't need to), after launching a defamation suit against Doug Stanhope, for writing about the only article that defended Johnny Depp, (amid the chaos of pussy hats and #Metoo) (when she didn't need to), it was her who leaked the kitchen tape to TMZ on the eve of divorce negotiations (when she didn't need to), and on and on Camille went, exposing each and every time Amber Heard had played the press game (amid the chaos of pussy hats and #Metoo) (when she didn't need to)... rising higher and higher... a spokeshole for UN, a spokeshole the World Economic Forum (or whatever that ponzi scheme is called that Greta Thunberg is part of).... up and up she rose on #Metoo wings of Icarus... expressing her anger and righteous rage from her soapbox with a message of rhetorical violence against men (oh not you, those men (though if it suits: you as well)) .... discarding friends, slapping foes.... until fat with pompous anonymity she writes the WaPo piece..... and it all comes crashing down.
Had she had the merest scrap of evidence she wouldn't have ended up in the position of being punched through the ropes, hanging half out of the ring, and claiming, it couldn't have been her who leaked the kitchen tape to TMZ because 'she didn't even know how to do it.' Which is rather like claiming you couldn't have sent the poison pen letters because you didn't know what a postbox is.
Amber, no doubt under the tutelage of the odious Dr Hughes (who she also threw under the bus), loves to talk about patterns.... well are you seeing a pattern?
By the end of the bout Camille had worked Amber over so well, that even Elaine (who has pandered to and enabled much of this) threw in the towel early.
Should you feel sorry for Amber? Probably.
The woman is clearly unwell, has substantial addiction issues, barely a friend in the world, and is a fool.
But you shouldn't let that natural sympathy cloud your judgement.
Camille wasn't aggressive, she wasn't unkind, she doesn't hate Amber: she was no doubt as nervous and scared as Amber in court.... but what she was doing, was her job.
