well, what if he has a future book deal or something like that? wouldn t you want the judgment? that s definitely something mark, you and i are book authors. anderson s a book author. there s not a big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for george zimmerman. i need to write a book. you re a lot more interesting than george zimmerman. i m putting together a pamphlet so we can plug it here. you know what i think we haven t considered? the fact of possible stand your ground immunity from civil suit in florida. we know that s part of florida law, and he has been found not guilty in a criminal case. i wonder if that will apply eventually if the family decides to also, just being crude about this, knowing there is so little money out there, what lawyer is going to take it would be enormously expensive to sue, to bring a civil case. there will be some lawyer who would take trust me. there are lawyers who would take that case. i mean, i ll give you examples in the last
acquitted. there is a whole host of evidence, now, remember, the standard in a criminal case is higher. we saw it with o.j. simpson. the standard is simply a preponderance of the evidence. o.j. simpson was an example of a person acquitted using the reasonable doubt standard, but once he found himself in front of a civil jury, he was not found not guilty in a civil context. mark, you re making the case in terms of money, there may not be anything for the family to collect from george zimmerman. right, somebody actually just tweeted somebody that made some sense, well, what if he has a future book deal or something like that? so wouldn t you want the judgment? book authors, anderson is a book author. there is not a big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for george zimmerman. i don t know i i need to write a book. you re a lot more interesting than george zimmerman.
merchandise today. this is the last time we book three book authors in the same week. this is my week right here. the printed word. i applaud that. where s my book? thank you joan, we ll have you back whenever your book comes out. karen hunter, msnbc contributor. jodi cantore author of the obamas. and author of the book how to be black. he was nervous, because he messed up yours. i always screw up the ending of the show. thank you for joining us today for up and join us tomorrow morning. we ll have melissa harry-perfectly dave weigel and amy goodman. until then, follow us on twitter and up with chris. see you tomorrow. thank you so much for getting up.
water. oh, that s you. here is my question for you, anne. i think you are the newt gingrich of book authors. you go to the gut and say what conservatives are thinking. you can t for one thing you are completely wrong that i would even accept this incredible slander. and you would go to the next step. i am not running for president. all we should be thinking about is how do we get votes? how do we get the most independent votes. we don t get it by calling obama a colonialist. and moreover, and my point about throwing out the baby and keeping the bath water with newt, you get the grandstanding statement, but when it comes time to do something he has taken 1.6 million from freddy mac and he
she will. but the more i think about it, i just i don t think she s quite dumb enough to try. now, last time you were here you were, speaking of dumb enough, thinking about running for mayor of wasilla. yeah. did you smarten up and rethink that? you know, yeah, i actually smartened up real quick. after they started throwing all the books and everything at me. you know, i quickly realized that i was not qualified for it and, you know, in years to come i might try it but as of right now let someone who desperately needs that, you know, do that. and besides it would cut into your nightclub time, this mayor thing. you don t want that. yeah. now, normally, when we have book authors on the show, we frequently will read passages of the books. but i realized you re here, you can why not just let you do the reading? can you do this passage here that gives us a little bit of a flavor of what your life was like in and around the i don t have to read it out of the book. i