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Posted on 03/31/2005 2:27:31 PM PST by goldstategop
RUSH: Having now gotten their wish in having Terri Schiavo put to death by court order, the American left is now free to turn their attention to saving Scott Peterson (news) from the same fate, which will no doubt happen. Again greetings: 800-282-2882 is the number. Terri Schiavo passed away, 9:03 this morning at the hospice down in Pinellas Park, Florida. We're going to talk about that. We'll talk about the court decision, this majority opinion written from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal yesterday. This was incredible. It's arrogant. This judge, Mr. Birch, a Bush appointee, Bush 41 appointee, wrote an opinion yesterday. It's unbelievable. The judiciary is fighting back. This opinion lashed out at the president, lashed out at Congress, lashed out at the public, and basically ordered all other judges to stay away from this case. I have the ruling. We'll get to that in due course. (Limbaugh Legal Division: Judiciary Fights Back) Also, a great piece today from Judi McLeod, who's the editor of a newspaper in Toronto, the conflicts of interest that involve the Schiavo legal team and the sheriff and so forth and this hospice down in Pinellas Park. It's interesting because the mainstream press was all trying to find conflicts of interest on all the other sides of this issue, but when it comes to the Felos-Schiavo side of this they didn't seem to look very hard. Somebody has, and we'll pass that on to you as well. But first let's go to the audio sound bites. The president today, about 11:30, had this to say about the passing of Terri Schiavo.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Today millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo. Laura and I extend or condolences to Terri Schiavo's families. I appreciate the example of grace and dignity they have displayed at a difficult time. I urge all those who honor Terri Schiavo to continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued and protected, especially those who live at the mercy of others. The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. In cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption should be in favor of life.
RUSH: Now, this is interesting. In addition to the substance of what the president said -- if you just bear with me until we get there -- the president in this statement takes a mild swipe back at this judge and the whole 11th Circuit, and I think the judiciary as well. It's very mild. You have to have read that opinion and heard some of the primary points that judge made in his opinion to understand this. The president's next sentence, by the way, talked about the president's most important responsibility is to protect the lives of the American people, and he went then into a discussion of this intelligence report, which we'll also discuss as the program unfolds today. Let's move on to more audio sound bites. Jeb Bush spoke to the press. We have two sound bites.
FLORIDA GOVERNOR JEB BUSH: It's heartbreaking, to be honest with you. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family, to all the people that wanted her to live, and to everybody. This was a very, very emotional couple of weeks. And I would hope that from this, that all of us can grow as people in terms of our appreciation for end of life issues.
RUSH: An unidentified reporter asked, "Governor Bush, do you feel like the debate and the time that's up here as taken emphasis away from this?"
GOVERNOR BUSH: This issue transcends politics and policy, and so, yes, it's taken -- deservedly so -- has taken attention away from other matters, but having said that, we've got time to deal with the policy initiatives of the leaders and the legislature and our agenda. So we'll continue to do our work.
REPORTER: Is this the toughest thing you've ever had to deal with, governor?
GOVERNOR BUSH: As governor? I had challenges in my personal life that have created the same emotional challenge, but as governor this has been the toughest.
RUSH: We move on now to one of the family priests that ministered to the Schindler family. This is the national director of Priests for Life, Father Frank Pavone, speaking to the press after the passing of Terri Schiavo.
PAVONE: Unfortunately just ten or so minutes before she died we were told that we had to leave the room because there would be an assessment of her condition and then a visitation by Michael. Bobby Schindler, her brother, said, "We want to be in the room when she dies." Michael Schiavo said, "No, you cannot," and so his heartless cruelty continues until this very last moment. At the same time, once she did pass away, we were called back into the room and at that point only the immediate family was able to go in to give her their final embraces. I stood at the doorway and offered the prayers of the church for those who have just died.
RUSH: Father Pavone wanted to add one more thing.
PAVONE: Let me just say one more thing, that this is not only a death with all the sadness that brings; this is a killing -- and for that we not only grieve that Terri has passed, but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this, and we pray that it will never happen again.
RUSH: Last night Scarborough Country, MSNBC. This gets hot and heavy. The guests included Catherine Crier of Court TV, Pat Buchanan and Peter Beinart, the editor of The New Republic. Buchanan says to Peter Beinart, "You know how she's dying? The way they died at Dachau, the way they died at Andersonville."
BEINART: That is an outrageous, outrageous statement.
BUCHANAN: It is not. They were starved to death and denied water.
BEINART: You know, it is outrageous for you to say --
BUCHANAN: Why do you want her dead so bad, Peter?
BEINART: She cannot feel the pain that we would feel in starvation, and compared to the Nazis, when this woman, when the court said this woman wanted to die, it's just outrageous. Outrageous.
CRIER: And Pat? How dare you, Pat? How dare you ask us how much we want this woman to die, because there is no one on the other side of this that wants her to die. If I could will her to get up, to --
BUCHANAN Well, why don't you give her some food and water?
RUSH: If you want her to live, why don't you get up and give her some food and water? You know, Buchanan is onto something here that I picked up on in the early stages of this two weeks ago. There did seem to be this unbridled enthusiasm for this woman to die. We know that there was. Catherine Crier is wrong about this. We know that there was an enthusiasm for this woman to die -- and we know why. There are several reasons. Among them, the left in this country is just frightened to death of the Christian right, and they blame the Christian right for all their electoral losses since 1994 and they want to stick it to the Christian right. Anything the Christian right can lose on, the left will be happy about, even if it takes the death of Terri Schiavo to upset the Christian right and cause the Christian right to experience a so-called loss on an issue. We also had a number of people protesting down there that were in fact anti-Bush, members of the Communist Youth League or some such thing, and they're out there eagerly hoping that Bush loses this because he was on the side of Terri Schiavo living.
So it may be a thin line. There may not have been that many people eager for her to die, but there were that many people that were eager for the Christian right and Bush to lose. Of course, the outcome is the same: Terri Schiavo dies. They're asking to suspend quite a lot of reality by saying, "We didn't have any enthusiasm for her to die," but that was the end result of these rulings. That was the end result of what these courts decided. All of these courts decided, "This woman's gotta die and nobody can give her any sustenance whatsoever," and there were people that supported that, and they did so under the guise of supporting the rule of law or supporting federalism or not supporting federalism or what have you. But it is plain as day what happened here: The United States government ordered the starvation of an innocent citizen who was not dying.
It's the ones who have found so much pleasure in deriding Terri, her family and her supporters in their pain that I can't understand. Even animals are rarely that cruel.
That and the insanity that tells these people what happened to Terri cannot happen to them.
Soon the judiciary will. They will carefully weigh each and every appeal Peterson makes for years and years and years. After all he's a convicted criminal and to liberals that is a life worth saving.
Indeed. Maybe you'll be next. But as you say, it isn't an "important" issue.
Only a Nazi would condone and advocate the starvation and dehydration death of an innocent and disabled person.
These sick liberals are suicidal and depressed.
It would be great if all pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia liberals would choose to commit suicide.
Those who advocated and condoned Terri's death have the same mentality that drove the holocaust in Nazi Germany during the years 1933 - 1945.
May ALL of these disgusting, diseased and despicable liberal NAZI pigs die as their hero, Adolph Hitler, died.
The leftist liberals have become exactly what they claim they hate.
They have supported the starvation and dehydration death of an innocent disabled woman.
This is what we are dealing with here. These are the kinds of "people" we are dealing with here. They are heartless, gutless, brainless Nazis who celebrate the starvation and dehydration death of an innocent disabled woman.
These mentally disturbed liberal Nazis would have proudly and gleefully lynched innocent black people a hundred years ago.
These soulless, cruel and heinous proponents for the starvation and dehydration death of innocent people like Terri would have reveled in gassing and burning innocent Jews in the concentration camps.
The liberal Nazis will reap what they sow...
...They will reap Hate, pain and death.
"Because he has been raving about the Absurdity in Florida for weeks now rather than concentrating upon important issues."
And what are these "more important issues," pray tell?
Are you for real?
What "more important issues?" Illegal imigration? Social Security? How about "GLOBAL WARMING?"
I guess the "sactity of life," is not that IMPORTANT?
I guess the fact that this being a case of a state-ordered "Murder" of an innocent human being is "not that important?
I guess the colateral issues such as Judicial tyrany is not that important?
GIVE ME A BREAK or go back to CNN, (PMS)NBC or Air America.
I know what they're doing too. They're acting like animals, like cheering fans in the Roman Colloseum.
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The state sanctioned starvation of an innocent disabled person is not an important issue? What is an important issue to you? Every other issue presupposes that innocent life is protected. I don't know how it has happened, but somehow your conscience has been seriously corrupted, and your priorities reflect that. The statement you made reflects the conscience of an amoral person.
No this is an ordinary medical case except for the bitterness of the parents and the resultant political movement feeding off of it. Events like this are occuring everyday and in every state. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, across the world.
Death can be postponed for months and years through enormous cost unaffordable to societies and which would never be undertaken at all but for the taxpayer being bled white to pay. But such sentimental and fanatic attachment to a body is idolatrous to me and indicative of a irrational fear of death resulting from a civilization which devalues the spiritual and elevates the physical at every chance.
Forced feeding is not a long term medical option and is only appropriate when there are viable people recieving it. Temporary states of illness or injury is one thing a destroyed person who "lives" only because of constant intervention and with NO chance of recovery is quite another.
Those of us who have had to allow their loved ones to go realize the selfish nature of dragging their deaths out. This hideous spectacle was unfair to Terri.
There is less and less substance on his program. Of late it is commercials and Schiavo for the most part. I am listening less as well. His outstanding insights are becoming rare. And if this is indicative of his analysis it can be skipped also. Sad.
The insanity which believes this poor woman should be made a political football rather than, as occurs hundreds in not thousands of times a day, allowed to peacefully die WHICH AT ANY OTHER TIME would have occurred. She wasn't disabled she was DESTROYED. Only a shell was left.
What would have been a standard death has been dragged out and seized by a political movement willing to use the grief and irrational responses of parents to attack the courts, the medical community and common sense. Its bitterness and hatred of opposing viewpoints has endangered the FR which seems to have LOST ALL PERSPECTIVE and is home to the most bizarre and absurd conspiracy theories as can be found outside of the Nation of Islam.
This is a disaster for the conservative movement.
Mark Levin feeding them both legal talking points.
Tragic and something she surely didn't deserve.
Lots of talk about living wills but I would like to see some discussion about the dangers of eating disorders that affect mostly young girls and young women.
You can submit whatever you wish but the fact remains that hysterical ignorance has been riding its high horse here for over a month and the posts became increasingly bizarre and fill with lies.
I know the obsession with the death of TS is destructive of the momentum of the conservative movement and has sidetracked it into a deadend. There are hundreds or thousands like her any given day.
Judicial reform, destroying the power of the RAT party, tax reform, tort reform, National Security starts the list.
Your response is typical of the insanity I am speaking of your obsession with the Lies told about this case is exactly what I fear will bring FR down into impotence and the GOP into ridicule.
See someone about your anger management before someone gets hurt or you kill someone not saluting your idol.
BUCHANAN: Why do you want her dead so bad, Peter?
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CRIER: How dare you, Pat? How dare you ask us how much we want this woman to die
Crier protests too much. Buchanan specifically asked Beinart why he wanted her dead. If Crier did not want Terri dead too, she would not have been so upset at a question asked someone else.
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