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Polls distort Terri's life and death
Jewish World Review ^ | April 14, 2005 | Nat Hentoff

Posted on 04/14/2005 7:37:13 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 04/14/2005 7:37:13 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Good article. As we have seen in the press this week, this is an issue that is not going to go away.


2 posted on 04/14/2005 7:45:45 AM PDT by trisham ("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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To: SJackson

I still get ill thinking how that poor defenseless woman was killed by a heartless husband and an activist court & media.


3 posted on 04/14/2005 7:50:10 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: trisham

The public attention span has been clocked at about 45 days. By mid-May this issue will indeed have "gone away" for most people (who are operating very little above the PVS level).


4 posted on 04/14/2005 7:51:11 AM PDT by wizardoz
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To: trisham
Good article. As we have seen in the press this week, this is an issue that is not going to go away.

Last night even Chrissy Matthews blurted out that he "LOVED" the "Schiavo story."

5 posted on 04/14/2005 8:21:29 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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To: shhrubbery!
Last night even Chrissy Matthews blurted out that he "LOVED" the "Schiavo story."

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I can't watch Matthews. I do listen to Russert once in a while, but Matthews seems too biased to me.

6 posted on 04/14/2005 8:27:31 AM PDT by trisham ("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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To: trisham
Well I understand the revulsion, but watching Chrissy occasionally has a pay-off.

I hope you didn't miss the dress down by Zell Miller.

Btw, MSNBC was preparing to show TWO special programs, hosted by Chris Matthews, spotlighting the issues raised by Terri's case.

Those programs were scheduled for the weekend right after Terri's death. Of course they were pre-empted because of the death of the Pope.

7 posted on 04/14/2005 8:40:31 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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To: shhrubbery!
I hope you didn't miss the dress down by Zell Miller.

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I did, I'm sorry to say. I'll check out the specials. Thanks!

8 posted on 04/14/2005 8:44:14 AM PDT by trisham ("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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To: trisham
I should note that don't know if MSNBC's special programs (focusing on the "implications --cultural, legal and moral"-- of Terri's case), were ever taped by Matthews.

The production for those shows was, however, advanced enough that DirectTV satellite info showed those titles for MSNBC weekend programming.

Poster #4 has a point about the public's attention span. However, we have hardly heard the end this issue.

I think Matthews with his effusively professed "LOVE" of the story will try to bring it up again.

A good start for Matthews would be to invite Nat Hentoff on his program to discuss it.

9 posted on 04/14/2005 9:09:28 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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To: SJackson; Ohioan from Florida; amdgmary; PhilDragoo
It was wrong to kill her. [JimRob on Terri Schiavo]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1377502/posts



...And SEPARATELY there was also THIS...

Was it wrong to kill Terri Schiavo?
85% said YES, it was wrong.

Member Opinion
Yes 84.7% 4,374
No 9.2% 474
Pass 3.6% 186
Undecided 2.5% 129
100.0% 5,163

10 posted on 04/14/2005 9:46:44 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer) (It was wrong to kill her. No other "facts" matter.-JimRobinson)
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To: SJackson

Bump for Terri's memory. NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 04/14/2005 10:00:44 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Rest in Peace, Theresa Marie SCHINDLER - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!!!!!)
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To: shhrubbery!
A good start for Matthews would be to invite Nat Hentoff on his program to discuss it.

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Definitely a show I would watch.

I think Matthews with his effusively professed "LOVE" of the story will try to bring it up again.

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At the very least, it's an unfortunate choice of words.

12 posted on 04/14/2005 10:32:38 AM PDT by trisham ("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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To: SJackson
Also see my post at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383663/posts
13 posted on 04/14/2005 11:01:27 AM PDT by Concerned (My Motto: It's NEVER wrong to do what's RIGHT!!!)
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To: Coop

I hope that people will always include the Governor and the President when listing those who killed Terri. No matter what Judge Greer did, the ultimate responsibility to enforce the 14th Amendment lies with the governors and the president.

Of course, if they had saved Terri's life, the question would immediately arise: If you saved Terri through executive action, why don't you use the same power to enforce the 14th-Amendment right to life that is being violated daily in abortion clinics.

There is no answer to that question. That's why the governor and the president violated their oaths, and allowed Terri to be murdered.


14 posted on 04/14/2005 1:17:57 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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15 posted on 04/14/2005 3:43:08 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Arthur McGowan

I'm no fan of either Bush. But I think it's only fair to point out: if they had ridden in with the cavalry, it would have saved Terri's life and brought joy to her supporters, BUT the "right to die" crowd (and I will never again read that phrase without a shudder) would have gained the moral high ground. Public outcry against such arrogant "interference" would have been loud and long, and many more future Terris might be doomed. Terri's fate was to be a martyr, it seems. I didn't want to believe it and prayed for it not to be true. But a martyr she is. It may have taken watching an innocent person die to pull us all back from the edge.


16 posted on 04/14/2005 4:00:07 PM PDT by Narnian
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To: Arthur McGowan
I hope that people will always include the Governor and the President when listing those who killed Terri.

Absolutely not. I place the blame where it belongs.

17 posted on 04/14/2005 4:59:34 PM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: Future Useless Eater; 4Godsoloved..Hegave; 8mmMauser; a5478; atruelady; Brad's Gramma; Cayenne; ...

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


18 posted on 04/14/2005 7:52:19 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: shhrubbery!

The ONLY reason Matthews is interested in pumping the Terri Schiavo case is he believes he can riddle the Republicans with deadly buckshot for having tried to act on her behalf. Matthews is a partisan hack of the first order ... and nothing is more important to him than aiding and abetting the democrap party, not even his immortal soul, which he's probably decided he can argue into Heaven some where/when. He is a disgusting flack, transparent in the main.


19 posted on 04/14/2005 8:05:51 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Coop

You are merely asserting that the Governor and the President had no duty to save Terri's life. I would like to see what your premises are.


20 posted on 04/14/2005 8:20:37 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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