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Felos Stunned by Hemlock Link
rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 4/1/05 | rushlimbaugh.com

Posted on 04/02/2005 9:58:25 PM PST by paltz

CALLER: Hi, Rush!

RUSH: Hi.

CALLER: I just wanted to know if you happened to catch George Felos on Fox & Friends this morning.

RUSH: Yes.

CALLER: What did you think?

RUSH: Well, there's a number of things that we have from Felos. One of the things -- what did you want to ask me about regarding Felos?

CALLER: Well, when they got to the last question I thought he looked, like, totally stunned. I think he thought that he did really, really good throughout the whole thing looking real calm.

RUSH: For people that don't know, what was the question?

CALLER: About the Hemlock Society?

RUSH: What was the question? I want you to tell me.

CALLER: Oh, I'm sorry. They had asked him -- they had heard a lot of talk on the radio -- or on talk radio, and they wanted to know if he really and truly belonged to the Hemlock Society.

RUSH: Yeah, and he said that he didn't.

CALLER: You didn't think that he looked stunned?

RUSH: Well, I think he looked stunned. I think he looked stunned, but he was not -- from everything I've been able to gather, he was not -- a member of the Hemlock Society.

CALLER: Oh, he wasn't?

RUSH: He was not. Here's what we know about the Hemlock Society and the Felos bunch, and this comes from Judi McLeod from the Toronto Free Press, it's a website, and we had the story yesterday. "Dr. Ronald Cranford, handpicked by Michael Schiavo to examine Terri and on whose say-so Terri was categorized in 'persistent vegetative state.' Cranford is the MD who officially ordered Terri’s feeding tube removed on March 18.... He was 1992’s featured speaker for the pro-euthanasia Hemlock Society, which was renamed The Choice in Dying Society," but not Felos. However, they're all connected because all these people are -- well, except for one, all of them are -- board members of the hospice in Pinellas Park. But Felos himself was not a member of the Hemlock Society. We have the sound bite. I think he was stunned not by the question about his membership but just the whole idea that it had been discovered that everybody involved in this hospice, that all the board members have and Felos does, too -- do have connections to people who are part of the Hemlock Society. It was a pro-euthanasia group. The question from Steve Doocy was, "Talk radio has been buzzing about your connection to the Hemlock Society. Could you just make that clear for us?"

FELOS: I don't know what they're... Uhhh, I don't know what they're talking about. I've -- I've -- I've spoken, uhhh, I've spoken before the Hemlock, uh, Society and -- but I'm -- I'm -- I'm not a member. Ummm, I don't serve, uh, in that organization, so I -- I -- don't know what they're talking about.

RUSH: I think he was a little stunned that the whole concept of the Hemlock Society was brought up here. I think this is something they thought was pretty much unknown because the mainstream press wasn't talking about it, the mainstream press is not talking about these connections.


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KEYWORDS: choiceindyingsociety; cos; cultureofdeath; drinkupgeorge; felos; hemlocksociety; rush; schiavo; wakeuprush; youfirst
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To: null and void

Bumpin' your post, null...


201 posted on 04/03/2005 1:31:22 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: russesjunjee
If he's spoken before the Hemlock society then he had to understand the reference.

It would certainly seem that way. To be sure, many people aren't going to remember all of the places they've spoken, especially if those places are not particularly tied to the subjects of their speeches. If someone were to ask commedian Joel Hodgson what he thought of the scandal surrounding Big Joe's Nightclub where he spoke (performed) in 1997, he'd probably say "huh"? In the case of George Felos speaking before the Hemlock Society, though, it would seem that the choice of audience was not arbitary as it would be for Joel Hodgson at Big Joe's. Felos almost spoke there because he and the society were interested in helping each other's agendas.

I can think of three reasons Felos would stumble on the name of the Hemlock society:

  1. Shock at his association being discovered.
  2. A desire to feign ignorance (rather ineptly by the sound of it)
  3. A sufficient association with the Center for Life Choices or whatever it's called now that he no longer associates it with the old name.
In any case, it's too bad he couldn't be cross-examined about that.
202 posted on 04/03/2005 1:46:34 PM PDT by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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To: Spirited; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Perhaps it was a phase but he lived here, in the DC area and this is where I saw it...

What did you see?

203 posted on 04/03/2005 1:47:09 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: paltz

Felos is in Rehab mode. HE HAS AFFILIATED HIMSELF WITH THE DEATH CROWD. It is not unusual for a lawyer NOT to join a group but to activly assist the group in order to "appear" impartial.

Remember Felos is the one who "consented" to the autopsy he had no right to refuse.

Felos is the one who said Terri was beautiful.

Felos is just playing lawyer games.

I am getting reaaaaaaly tired of Fox and Friends in the morning. E.D. (the blond on weekdays) seems to drift a litle too far to the left to be morning worthy. Next time they should try a brunette.


204 posted on 04/03/2005 1:54:05 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: MJY1288; All; TheOtherOne
Our old buddy, George Soros, has a take on all this too -- remember his unrelenting billions supporting MoveOn.Org and other anti-Bush (and anti-religious) affiliations?

Project on Death in America from www.soros.org

Excerpt:

Open Society Institute Examines Impact of $45 Million New Report for Grantmakers on Funding Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care and Reduce Suffering for Terminally Ill Patients

Press Release
October 1, 2004

Contact:
Lori McGlinchey
lmcglinchey@sorosny.org
1-212-548-0334

NEW YORK - The Open Society Institute’s Project on Death in America (PDIA) today issued a special report, Transforming the Culture of Dying. The report reviews nine years and $45 million devoted to improving care available to patients and their families at all stages of serious illness.

205 posted on 04/03/2005 2:07:29 PM PDT by STARWISE (PLEASE .... PRAY FOR TERRI AND HER FAMILY. 'WHERE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE!")
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To: Brad's Gramma

*smooch*


206 posted on 04/03/2005 3:35:29 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: null and void
"Yup, fire away, public or FReepmail. I'm a former menber, and some of my info may be a bit stale, but I'll answer as best I can, and where I don't know I might be able to find out."

I'd be interested to know how you got involved and what some of your experiences were.

207 posted on 04/03/2005 3:37:53 PM PDT by LADY J
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To: LADY J
Personal contact. I met a guy who was in Scientology, got to talking to him, and ended up borrowing a copy of Dianetics.

Read it that night, and took my first class the following weekend.

It was what I needed at the time, I guess.

Took quite a few classes and got a bunch of auditing (counseling)

Did some volunteer work, saw the disconnect between the church's actions and it's stated goals, and left.
208 posted on 04/03/2005 3:54:25 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: null and void
saw the disconnect between the church's actions and it's stated goals, and left.

You realize, I'm sure, that even back then God had His hand in your life...!!!

209 posted on 04/03/2005 3:59:38 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Perhaps.


210 posted on 04/03/2005 4:00:20 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: null and void

From this side of the computer screen....it seems so to me.

But hey. :)


211 posted on 04/03/2005 4:03:55 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Yes, but it's a hard concept for an agnostic...


212 posted on 04/03/2005 4:09:46 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: null and void

Whoops. I'll betcha it is, nully...


213 posted on 04/03/2005 4:11:59 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: Brad's Gramma

It wouldn't be the first time...


214 posted on 04/03/2005 4:14:40 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: STARWISE; floriduh voter; phenn; FreepinforTerri; kimmie7; Pegita; windchime; tutstar; ...

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!


215 posted on 04/03/2005 4:14:53 PM PDT by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: OldFriend

Who would?


216 posted on 04/03/2005 4:26:54 PM PDT by stands2reason (When in doubt, err on the side of life.)
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To: null and void
From beliefnet.com: Scientology regards homosexuality as an illness.

True?

217 posted on 04/03/2005 4:35:31 PM PDT by workerbee
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To: null and void
Listen to that still soft voice...it just could be Someone Important trying to get thru to you....
218 posted on 04/03/2005 4:54:10 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: workerbee

Yes. They're not very PC are they?...


219 posted on 04/03/2005 4:56:21 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: Brad's Gramma




Here is a link with some info in Hemlock..now called Choice in Dying.
We all know how the word CHOICE makes ANYTHING acceptable.

http://www.normemma.com/arhemloc.htm

That link is to a disabled rights website.


220 posted on 04/03/2005 5:00:43 PM PDT by snarkytart (You're Gutless. You're Undressed.)
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