Posted on 11/13/2004 7:40:58 AM PST by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson was convicted Friday of murdering his pregnant wife and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay -- the conclusion to a case prosecutors portrayed as a cold-blooded attempt to escape marriage and fatherhood for the pleasures of a bachelor life.
Jurors found the former fertilizer salesman guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Laci, and guilty of second-degree murder in the death of the fetus she carried.
(Excerpt) Read more at venturacountystar.com ...
Liberals looking for an answer as to why they lost the Presidential election in 2004 should read The Star's November 13, 2004 front page starting article titled "Scott Peterson found guilty." The seven-column piece spends almost a full newspaper page covering the infamous verdict without using the word "baby" even once.
The Star, printing yet another biased piece from The AP, refers to Conner as a "fetus" four times in the article. In a sentence referring to Laci, the article refers to "her remains," yet as it concern's Conner's remains, the article refers to "those of her fetus." I guess referring to "his remains" would have been too personal. Even mainstream dictionaries, which have all been revised and parsed by politically correct pointy-headed liberal professor types, limit the definition of fetus to an unborn child before the moment of birth. Birth - that moment when the baby leaves the womb. Yet, in a disgusting and morally bankrupt display of pro-choice anti-baby verbage, The Star's article refers to trial testimony that "the fetus lived beyond the day Laci vanished." Once the fetus left Laci's body, it became a "baby" by even the most Liberal definitions.
Laci Peterson's baby had a name - his name was Conner, not Fetus.
The reason why the Peterson trial is so compelling to most Americans is because it involves the murder of a mother and her baby. The majority of Americans believe that abortion is wrong except in circumstances of rape, incest and where the life of the mother is in danger. The Liberal elites and Hollywood types are adamantly pro-choice, who want abortion legal because it is a great way to avoid the consequences of their sexually immoral and irresponsible lifestyles. Likewise, they relish the divisiveness of the issue, and the ability to insure themselves a portion of the vote by labeling it a "woman's right to choose" as opposed to a "baby's right to live."
The reason for the rhetoric is clear. Liberals fear the Peterson verdict because it represents a further erosion of their power base. When people are faced with a father's murder of a baby in the mother's womb, they realize it's a baby, and support a murder verdict. It's not a big step for them to realize the intellectual dishonesty involved in calling the killing of that same baby by the mother an "abortion" instead of a murder, as if labeling it with a medical term makes it any less a murder.
Left Coast Liberals have a hard time relating to Southern Democrats. The reasons are obvious. Southern Democrats believe in God and Country, and the foundation for their belief in the Great Society was a moral foundation. The Liberal Democrats in charge of the DNC have abandoned them. Pro-Life Democrats are now the red-headed step-children of their own political party. Statistics show that half of the fundamental Christians in this country are registered democrats - a fact that is lost on liberals like those writing AP articles, and picking The Star's political endorsements.
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Your battle is with the AP Style Manual (available on Amazon) and not the local paper.
"Laci Peterson's baby had a name - his name was Conner, not Fetus."
find the ap reporter and make his name public ..... expose him with a freep.... it is time to expose them one at a time...... make them naked to the world.....
It does become confusing. Baby Conner was of a size that he could have done quite well if he'd been born Dec.22. He was still at the age of being a partial-birth candidate, though, so he HAD to be a fetus.......or something like that.
Any AP reporter who files a story has to follow the AP Style Manual or they will soon be out of a job. You can petition AP to remove the term "fetus" from their manual, but the reporter has little choice in the matter as does the re-write editor who checks stories for style, grammar etc. before they go out on the wire.
Brian Skoloff is one of hundreds of pro gay activists pretending to be reporters and journalists. Below is a link that will take Freepers to his history of pro gay articles. These liars are part of the MSM propaganda wing for the DemonicRats. Abortion and pushing the gay agenda are part of their rotten core.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Brian%20Skoloff%20Gay
The local paper is a liberal rag that endorsed Kerry, and has a history of running biased articles. This Skoloff ass is the same guy who wrote that horrificly biased piece about the Bush daughters helping in the campaign, wherein he said that Bush basically forced them to do it, and then quotes them as saying they volunteered to help, which was a surprise to their parents.
Conner was almost at birth date. She dissapeared on Christmas Eve, and his due date was early February.
Yes, but the verdict was a news story while the Bush twins piece was a feature story. And the endorsement of Kerry falls under editorial. Different rules apply for each type of story.
The larger issue in all this is that the only difference between a murdered baby and an "aborted" baby is the say so of its mother! How demonic!!!
You are absolutely correct. Had the reporter used the term "unborn baby," an AP editor would've changed it to "fetus" - and the reporter would've likely gotten a verbal reminder of AP's accepted terminology.
Does anyone know if "fetus" is the accepted medical term for an unborn so late it his/her term? A lot of editors and style manuals simply go with what is considered the appropriate medical term.
I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.
"fetus" is the accepted medical term. of course there is no reason that medical terms should be considered the correct English usage. The newspapers don't insist that a pregnant woman is really a gravida.
english usage and newspaper usage are two different things entirely. Famous story regarding the New York Times in which the rock and roller Meat Loaf was called "Mr. Loaf" throughout the story following the first mention of his entire name, per New York Times style.
I saw this article/headline in the Ventura County Star today. There's going to be a huge backlash. By the way, make sure you pare your letter down to 300 words and copy jhowry@venturacountystar.com and mratcliff@venturacountystar.com. Richard Larsen, the left-over liberal from the 60's, often mans the letters desk and tends to lose a lot of letters.
Fetus is a medical term. However, so is baby. But don't miss the point. Even when describing the concept of Conner outliving Laci, they STILL REFER TO HIM AS A FETUS. How the hell is a baby washed up on the shore, clearly way past the age of viability, outside the womb of the mother, miles from the mother, a fetus? BS.
Ventura County Ping!
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