[mikeb704]

Sigh.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[ladtx]

The money-grubbing begins.

[BigWaveBetty]

Gag, hurl, wretch!!

[bonfire]

That didn't take long.....

[mewzilla]

Now I feel even sorrier for this kid.

[areafiftyone]

I am not saying one thing about this. Nope not talking... mumble mumble mumble!!

[JennysCool]

Ahh, I can see the future clearly now. Elizabeth's first CD, "Mormon Chick Yo!" drives Britney right off the charts.

[SolutionsOnly]

One of the lesser - but no less appreciated - benefits of the Iraq war is that both we and the Smart Family have been spared from the 24x7 'All Elizabeth, All the time' media frenzy. Thank God that this pool girl is now safe.
Let's leave them in peace.

[Zebra]

Lois and Ed Smart for Parents of the Year! What a couple of contemptible creeps.

[Cincinatus]

I thought of your screen name this morning when I saw this picture on another thread:

Irony -- it's so ironic!

[mountaineer]

I'm shocked! Shocked and surprised, I tell you!
I just didn't see this one coming at all!

[Servant of the Nine]

They really have no choice.

The movies of the week are gonna get made with or without them.
By negotiating the best deal they can on an "Authorized Version" they can have some control over how the story is done, possibly even get script aproval rights.

So9

[isthisnickcool]

I hope they give some of the cash they make to the Laura Recover Center and to other groups that busted their butts looking for that kid.

[HumanaeVitae]

People will do anything to get on TV.

[Bush2000]

Ka-Ching!

or ... "How to Turn your Family Tragedy into Cold, Hard Cash" ...

[Eva]

Did you read the report, a little over a week ago, that said that Elizabeth had met with Mitchell five or six times before the kidnapping? She had been visiting them at the shelter where they lived and was taking food and things to them. Sometimes she went with friends and a few times alone. She talked religion and Mitchell told her that she had been chosen to be his wife. She didn't take him seriously on that because she was so young.

I had predicted this would be the case and some of the Mormons on this board became very annoyed with me.

[freekitty]

I see the show begins.

[LuisBasco]

How smart is this?

[af_vet_rr]

How many of us saw this coming? We had the dad practically making political speeches (hints at running for office?) and the uncle making a ton of money off of being the exclusive photographer.

[Jael]

My first impulse was horror. But then I thought, you know, Hollyweird is making the movie with or without them. They want to control how Elizibeth is presented. So this is how they do it.

In a way I understand that.