So how soon and from who will we see books about Terri Schiavo?

[LynneSin]

I was bookshopping this weekend and noticed a slew of books on the Scott Peterson case including one from a long lost half brother who, from what it seems, barely knew Scott.

So I'm assuming it'll be a matter of weeks until the market will be flooded with books about Terri Schiavo from anyone and everyone who had a passing glance at the poor girl.

I'm going to make an assumption that some of the future authors will include:

That "Nobel Prize Nominated" doctor who claims he could have cured Terri Schiavo even after years of having liquid for a bulk of her brain.

The Nurse who claimed that Michael Schiavo was trying to kill Terri

The lawyer who swore she heard Terri say "I want to live" from the "AAAWWWW WAAAAAAA" groan that Terri made when the tubes were removed

The Registered Sex offender (who forgot to register) who allowed his 10 year old son get arrested protesting over allowing Terri to die

Randall Terry who is just grateful that folks are overlooking the fact that he divorced his wife to marry a member of his staff and that he disowned his gay son.

Those are a few of the first books I just know we're going to see. Who else, other than the obvious (Parents, Family, Michael) can we expect to see writing a book about Terri and their so-called relationship with the gal?

[NewJeffCT]

1. Already heard there is a CBS miniseries this May

Just in time for May Sweeps.

[LynneSin]

3. you're joking - right

right?

:scared:

To be honest, I hope the do a mini-series and I hope they promote the fact that Terri was a bulumic and her eating disorder put her in the condition that became of her. Hopefully that message will get out to all those bulumic/anoeric girls that they too can starve themselves into 15 years of vegetative state

[NewJeffCT]

11. I don't have a link...

But, I had heard it on the radio on a local CBS radio affiliate.

I wonder if it will be sufficiently "respectful" after CBS'experience with the Reagans.

[ixion]

2. Her parents

that's my bet. Despite whatever good intentions they may have, it seems they've done nothing more than try to cash in on that poor womans elongated death.

[AllegroRondo]

14. I heard they already signed a book deal

for something like $6 million.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Borders Books appears to have dedicated itself to the Pope this week.

I'll get back with you next week. :hi:

[Democrat 4 Ever]

7. Terri Schiavo's biography was on one of the TV stations this

weekend. Honest. Channel surfing and caught the title. I didn't watch it (what else could possibly be said?) but remember I was surprised to see it. The MSM whores have out done themselves on this one. She has been dead a total of two days and they have already cranked out "The Terri Schiavo Story." I did a search and noticed that it will replay tonight, twice tomorrow and again on Wednesday on the Biography channel. Geesh. Wonder who bought air time for that bit of "pushing the envelope" journalism?

[MissMillie]

5. E! television already did a biography on her

just this past week

So sad that this family's personal tragedy is considered "entertainment"

[sniffa]

6. i'm thinking tom deLay

the cover wiLL have tommy on a cross, with terri at his feet.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I expect that Dobson, or someone of his ilk, will chime in

There will likely be a catholic-specific book on the story as well.

You can bet SHITLOADS of money that the next books by Coulter, Hannity, O'Lielly, and others will ALL mention Schiavo juxtaposed with the "culture of death" of the "liberal nazis". Actually, this will go on for their next SEVENTEEN books. They will not be able to "move forward".

There will be at least one bullshit "forward this!" email with a sappy, saccharine, poorly written poem about Terri Schiavo and her angel and the doors to heaven and a big masculine God and it will be wrapped in the American flag somehow, and then end with something "And this is what the Klintoon supporters want FOR EVERYONE whether they are injured or not! Pass this email to on to your friends!"

I wouldn't be surprised if Newt Gingrich came out and wrote a book, or at least an essay in American Spectator (or whatever that conservative one is) about how a man should stand with his wife when she is sick and ill, and support her, and never leave her, certainly not murder her, because that's the marriage vow - through sickness and through health - and that what Michael did was evil evil evil. He will be hailed as the new marriage theologian by the right wing, who will flock to spend $35 a ticket to hear him talk about the sactity of marriage and how a man should treat his wife. Those people will all curiously completely ignore the fact that he served his dying wife with divorce papers on her hospital bed. Every time that fact is brought up, someone will yell "Liberal media!" and "Get over it! Move on!" and then say, "Clinton had an adulteress affair."

There will be an awful "Lifetime Channel" movie, written by Tim LeHaye, which will heavily distort the facts and bring in a lot of bad theology re: angels, saints, and the martyrdom of Terri.

And in the Catholic bookstores, we will see shitloads of memorabilia, prayer votives, prayer cards, greeting cards, prayer shawls, and entire metric fuckloads of religious bric a brac with Terri's face/name/story on them. Oddly enough, the evangelican rightwing, which considers all Catholics as hell-bound sinners, will also fill their bookstores with Terri Schiavo memorabilia, badly written poems on laquered wood plaques with pictures of clouds and/or sunsets, bookmarkers, and probably even a special "Terri Schiavo pro-life 'books of the Bible' index card set"

[LynneSin]

9. Newt is the authority about standing by your wife through sickness...

...just ask his second wife who was served divorce papers from him while she was recovery from cancer

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Yes, I mentioned that!

:7

[WinterStorm]

16. Bob Dole

He told his wife that he was going to the store to buy milk for the baby and he never returned. Republicans values :rofl:

[Arkana]

12. Everyone will be trying to cash in

"I was only Terri's paperboy for two weeks, but..."

[zbdent]

13. Anything from Regnery

Or maybe ReganBooks

[WinterStorm]

15. "Terri, the silent majority by Bob Barr" n/t

[4_Legs_Good]

17. Ultimately someone will write a book about Schiavo exposing

her as a normal person (prior to the injury) with normal failings, and every one of them will be stated, from her low grades in penmenship to her alleged affair with the UPS woman and "problem" with modeling glue.

Then we'll enter this whole schizo phase where we don't know whether to woship her as a martyr for the cause of life (from the Freep perspective), or condemn her as a horrible woman.

Americans have a hard time with "heros" when they have failings - as they all do.

Just look at how far the Conservatives have gone in spitting on JFK's corpse the past 41 years. Now very few of us can say "What a great man" without having Marilyn Monroe being brought up in the next freaking sentence.

Poor Shiavo. Can we please just let her rest in peace as a regular person and move on with life?

david