No amount of ghoulishness is too much if there are cheap political points to be scored

Necrophiliac, thy name is Jeb Bush:

Refusing to give up on the Terri Schiavo case, Gov. Jeb Bush has asked Pinellas prosecutors to sort out time discrepancies Michael Schiavo has provided regarding the hour he found his wife unconscious 15 years ago.

State Attorney Bernie McCabe has agreed to review the time elements in the case, his chief assistant, Bruce Bartlett, said Thursday.

"We are going to look into the circumstances surrounding the times," said Bartlett, who declined to label the review an investigation. "The governor has expressed concern over that aspect of the case."

Michael Schiavo has said he called 911 immediately after finding his wife collapsed on the floor of their home on Feb. 25, 1990. Though medical records indicate he called 911 about 5:40 a.m. that day, he told the Medical Examiner's Office recently that he found his wife about 4:30 a.m.

The detail fueled suspicions by Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, that Michael Schiavo had some wicked connection to their daughter's collapse and may have delayed his call for help.

"I think this is a very troubling gap in time," Schindler attorney David Gibbs III said Wednesday. "Michael Schiavo needs to step forward and explain."

You know, it's pretty clear that Michael Schiavo is not a real cuddly guy. He may not even be a really nice guy, though frankly, I don't think even Mr. Brilliant would hang around for fifteen years if I were in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery -- and I wouldn't expect him to.

But where the fuck were the Schindlers and their fucking investigators fifteen years ago, back when Terri Schiavo was first revived and the very same Michael Schiavo they now call an abuser was not only living with them, but was someone they 100% supported?

I knew this was going to happen. I knew that the autopsy wasn't going to end anything, because the confirmation that Terri Schiavo wasn't interacting, wasn't ready to jump up and do the highland fling, wasn't just like you and me, made so many people look like absolute fucking morons (I'm talking to you, DOCTOR Frist), that they now have no choice but to keep asking ridiculous questions.

You know, sometimes Shit Just Happens. Sometimes an otherwise healthy person drops dead for no reason. What happened to Terri Schiavo fifteen years ago is tragic, but to go back now and call it abuse, when NO SUCH ALLEGATIONS WERE MADE BY THE SCHINDLERS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF ABUSE IN THE AUTOPSY OR ELSEWHERE is just reprehensible. And I don't give a flying fuck what Mark Fuhrman, an armchair quarterback of a cop whose incompetence let a murderer go free and who never even SAW Terri Schiavo, says in his get-rich-quick sheme of an upcoming book.

I'm sure the Schindlers are in deep pain that is unabated by the autopsy results, which shed little light on exactly what happens. However, they lost my sympathy when they decided to allow themselves to be played for fools by the likes of Randall Terry, Tom DeLay, and yes, Jeb Bush. But what these people need is some good grief counseling and for the politicians to stop trying to score cheap points out of this family tragedy.

UPDATE: Those fun-loving folks at World Nut Daily weigh in:

Ward also challenges analysts who insist there was no abuse, pointing out the report does not rule out that possibility.

The autopsy report says, rather, that the medical examiner could not detect any evidence.

Ward said the evidence does not rule out that Terri Schiavo's condition could have been triggered by a blow to the solar plexis -- known as commotio cordis -- or by nontraumatic asphyxia, which could be produced by a pillow or hand to the face.

Either could have caused her to lose consciousness without leaving any evidence.

"This report does not rule out abuse," Ward said in an interview with Joseph Farah's WorldNetDaily Radioactive. "It certainly does not exonerate any of the people who were so eager to hasten her death."

So in other words, absence of evidence to the contrary now constitutes evidence? Is this something new to be used in the courts?

And my, my, my -- Jerri Lynn Ward is a trial lawyer. Isn't that evidence that she's an enemy of the right wing?