Posted on 03/26/2005 4:51:24 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Despite evidence that the ABC poll on Terri Schiavo used misleading statements to push people toward certain responses, there was Juliet Huddy on Fox & Friends Weekend this morning parroting the poll results that ostensibly show that three quarters of Americans oppose Congress' involvement and believe those supporting the legislation were politically motivated.
Huddy offered the poll results as fodder to Jim Pinkerton and the noisome Ellen Ratner during their "The Long and the Short of It" segment.
As she did last week, Ratner managed to keep a hideously inappropriate smile on her face throughout the segment. She rejected Pinkerton's notion that, having known Jeb Bush for twenty years and knowing him to be a devout Catholic, he had no doubt as to his sincerity in this matter.
Speaking of Republicans, Ratner went on to gloat: "they overreached. They made a political gamble and they lost."
Ratner condemned those Democrats who supported the congressional legislaton as "milquetoasty people."
The most interesting statement, IMO, came from Pinkerton, expressing something that has been on my mind.
He predicted: "If a week from today we're back here and Terri has died due to the actions of her husband and a bunch of ACLU lawyers, there will be a backlash, and the politics of this will look very different."
Ratner predictably cawed "you could not be more wrong!"
We can take comfort from the fact that she was wrong about every political prediction she made over the last year.
Fox & Friends Weekend coming-backlash ping to the Today Show ping list.
Ratner graduated from the Susan Estrogen School of Public Relations. Both of them put my television in peril everytime they appear. Can Ratner not allow anyone to finish a sentence without interrupting them with her "cawing"? (I really like that description, governs.)
This is basically my point of view - I think a lot of people who have sided with death are going to have much remorse after Terri actually dies. That will create a backlash against the Deathocrats and the tyrannical judiciary.
I can only pray that you are right. If not, things look bad, not just for the Republicans but (far more importantly) for the country.
Ellen Ratner is a smug, ignorant, wide-load, piano-ankled loser.
Nothing worse than a homely, piggish, loud, liberal woman with pinao legs who thinks she's somewhat attractive. ;-)
Aah, I feel better.
LOL, really, I did.
Remember that Clinton had so called "high poll numbers", but is now considered a corrupt joke.
The press did their best to manipulate public opinion, but the issue of euthanasia(murder) is out there, and people as they contemplate this case more will see the dark and sinister sides of it, IMO.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3036713/
Here are the latest numbers to the following question on the MSNBC site (you can vote only once):
"Who should decide Terri Schiavo's fate?"
* 86512 responses
Parents: 32%
Husband: 68%
"A chuckle a thread or your money cheerfully refunded. Shipping and handling charges may apply."
That will create a backlash against the Deathocrats and the tyrannical judiciary.
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Pretty please, I'd like to severely impose frontlash too !!! ;-))
"Cawed" is a particularly apt word to describe Ratner's odious delight and voice that fighting for an innocent's chance to live and Terri's fate are but a Republican political error. Her gloating is shameful.
Sure - I stole it from someone else (I forget where).
Since I've often been very critical of Julian Phillips on these threads, fairness compels me to observe that, while not expressing strong opinions one way or another, he appears sympathetic to the position of the Schindler's.
By the way, the Catholic brother who serves as the Schindlers' spiritual advisor just made a very strong statement regarding Jeb Bush, to the effect that he doesn't know how Jeb could look the Schindlers in the face after failing to use the power he has to save Terri, adding that Jeb will ultimately be accountable "to another Judge."
Not only did the ACLU not lift a finger, but they applaud this action by Felos, Schiavo, and Greer. They have not stood by silently.
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The polls numbers will dropped as time goes on when more Americans come to understand more of the circumstances surrounding Terri's case.
Seesaw Margery Caw
Beezlebub is her master
She earns much more than a tuppence a day
Because she caws louder and faster
Leni
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