Open Letter to Philadelphia Radio Talk Show Host Michael Smerconish about Terry Schiavo

Me | 2/24/2005 | Me

[Tribune7]

He's a lawyer. I stopped listening to him after he went against the doctors then came out strong for Specter vs. Toomey.

[Williams]

OK then you have served your purpose. You listened and you wrote your letter.

[TorahTrueJew]

Oh yeah--forgot about that. He loves Arlen Specter. I can't stand him and am embarassed that I voted for him. But Smerconish just adores him. Goes well with Arthur Kaplan who is pro-abortion.

[TorahTrueJew]

By the way, regarding my letter being "childish", I have been accused of being childish and nonsensical by pro-abortionists by showing them photos of aborted babies and 3-d ultrasounds to show how developed a baby is at a young age. Why is it nonsensical to show somebody how evil a position they hold is?

[TorahTrueJew]

By the way, regarding my letter being "childish", I have been accused of being childish and nonsensical by pro-abortionists by showing them photos of aborted babies and 3-d ultrasounds to show how developed a baby is at a young age. Why is it nonsensical to show somebody how evil a position they hold is?

[Tribune7]

am embarassed that I voted for him.

Don't be. I did the last time and would have this time if he hadn't just ticked me off totally in the month before the election.

Looking at it rationally i.e. taking the action that most likely leads to our objective, you probably did the right thing and I didn't.

[Williams]

One reason you are childish is that you change the subject constantly. We weren't discussing what you do with images of fetuses. Your remark about blowing Terry Schiavo's head off with a shotgun was infantile and your reference to Sean Hannity as liberal was more than mistaken. I suggest you calm down but I'm sure you are unable to do so because of the urgency of your life's work.

[Callahan]

Do you remember when Smerconish went to Cuba and sucked up to Castro. He asked him some asinine question about Frank Rizzo, as if the decrepit old creep had any idea who he was. Lost all my respect for Smerconish.

[TorahTrueJew]

I missed that one, but it doesn't surprise me.

Not that this really means much, but the other day, he said, "I'm very attractive to women. I am just gay enough to be irresistable, while still being attracted to the opposite sex. I possess all of the gay traits that women find appealing."

HUH?!?

[wjersey]

I turned off Smerconish and instead turn on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" on WNPT 990.

[purpleland]

Excellent! TorahTrue Humanism!

[Tribune7]

ditto that.

And I switch to Medved when Hannity starts getting to me.

[Melas]

I'll guarantee you that you lost him at, "Michael Jerk-onish". He didn't read anything beyond that, and can you really blame him?

[bvw]

My hat tips to you! Fine letter.

[bvw]

"And what's wrong with that?"

[SkyPilot]

And why is he so obsessed with airline security?

Well, you hit on it. He has a book to sell. Smerconish plugs his own book so many times on his show that it has become beyond ridiculous.

[jonrick46]

We must use all of our might to right this injustice. When it involves radio talk show hosts, we need to light the fire under those who have become lazy and would allow neglect and expediency become the status quo rather than engage in the hard work needed to protect the sick and infirmed. We must oppose government when it fails to protect us from those who would threaten our life when we are in our most vulnerable condition.

This is a battle for the future which will determine the ethical treatment of human beings as determined by the extent forces succeed in the erosion of the value of human life. This battle will be lost if we allow public opinion from such moral degenerates as Michael Smerconish to dominate the cultural discourse. When those such as him advocate for what used to pass for murder, they are opening the door for such moral decay that the taking of a life for some imagined justification may become commonplace and legal. What I fear are relatives pressuring poor souls to a early death for expediency sake; especially when such pressures are being aggravated by increased health care costs that have been affected by temporary economic forces.

When the Baby Boom Generation makes its way through the dying years, the moral decisions that are made will determine the dignity we will place on human life in the future. The Terri Schiavo case is a litmus test to see if the forces of moral ethics can stand up to the legal challenges of the culture of death. We are beginning to wake up to the fact that the culture of death is becoming entrenched. The alarm bells are sounding. We will need to be weeded out of the culture through expensive court action and support of right to life candidates if people are to be safe in their hospital beds from the barbaric bargaining of human life on the auction block of expediency.

Finally, one most important action that everyone can do daily: We can pray to our Creator that all people will be given the dignity that life made in God's image deserves.

[Melas]

You can't be serious? I expect my 7th grader to realize that calling someone a jerk in an opening paragraph is going to invalidate the letter entirely.

[bvw]

Why not a shotgun? More humane and quick than starvation.

Why are you so cruel to prefer starving someone's beloved daughter? For so you do by taking Smerconish's side in this -- even in part. If Smerconish agrees she should be offed, why not then do so with less cruelty than a long starvation?

What's a damn difference? It's murder either way.

[bvw]

Stay away from spicy meatballs then. Stick with Quaker food.