Where did you get the idea that Mr. Schindler said this about Terri?
sink got it straight from Chris Matthews' lying sputtering lips:
MATTHEWS: OK.
Let‘s talk possibly, John, about overkill here. The lawyers for the parents have said, if their daughter dies, there will be a damnation of her soul. This is overkill. If you come in and say that, somehow, Terri Schiavo, in the state she‘s been in for 15 years, will somehow suffer punishment by God because she dies this way, what do you think of that kind of a statement by the lawyers...
FUND: Chris.
MATTHEWS: No, I want your response.
FUND: Chris, one of the worst things that‘s happened is...
MATTHEWS: What is your response to that? To that?
FUND: Chris, one of the worst things that‘s happened in this...
MATTHEWS: No, I need that.
Let me go to Jim.
Jim, I want a response to this. It‘s an incredible statement.
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: These are Roman Catholics saying that their daughter will be punished in hell because of the way this case is coming down. I have never heard theology like that. I have no idea where it is coming from. But it smacks me as overkill. And I don‘t think it is going to help the parents‘ case.
Jim Warren.
WARREN: Yes, I mean, even factoring their—even factoring their extreme sensitivity, it is an absurdity too gross to be insisted upon. It is a hyperbole beyond the pale.
FUND: Chris, one of the worst decisions the Schindlers made was to retain Randall Terry, who has in extreme background in the pro-life movement. This is a man who is under court order not to go near abortion clinics. This is a man who has made many extreme statements.
I think the Schindlers did hurt their cause by retaining Randall Terry, because he is simply, despite his eloquence, bad news.
MATTHEWS: You agree, though, it is an awful thing to say that the daughter, who has been comatose, not really aware of things going on for 15 years, and somehow she will be blamed by God for what has been done in the courts?
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MATTHEWS: What does that mean to say something like that when you‘re Mr. Schindler or Mrs. Schindler?
FUND: Because the emotions run so highly and because everyone in this case seems to privately hate each other within the Schindler and the Schiavo families.
MATTHEWS: Well, that‘s a fair assessment.
FUND: I think—I think the statements are extreme and I think it is unfortunate this has spilled out on national television.
MATTHEWS: Well, it has spilled out when you start issuing statements by your lawyers saying your daughter is going to be damned to hell unless she gets the right decision in a court, which is the most screwball political and religious statement I‘ve ever heard, let alone the law.