Posted on 04/25/2005 2:07:07 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Even at this late date, after Terri Schiavo is dead and gone, the media keep getting the facts wrong about the case. On the CBS Evening News, correspondent Joie Chen said that Rep. Tom Delay and other Republicans were "infuriated by court decisions not to enforce the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube after lawmakers passed a law in a nearly unprecedented effort to do so…" That's not what the law said. The law declared that the federal courts would have jurisdiction to establish the facts in the case. The federal courts were not ordered to come to any conclusion, only to examine the evidence. That's a right automatically given to convicted killers like Scott Peterson, who are facing execution.
Tragically, the courts ignored what Congress required, and Schiavo was starved to death.
Since Joie Chen of CBS News got the basic facts wrong, is it possible that she didn't even bother to read the law? The other possibility is that she read it and didn't understand it. It is amazing, on a matter that has gotten so much attention and publicity, that the essential facts of the case can be ignored by a major news operation. But that's CBS News for you. If the facts get in the way, ignore or distort them.
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Terri ping
The alphabet news agencies pay these people big bucks to get stories wrong - go figure.
SEEBS --- I never watch that network. I hate what thet have come to stand for -- disinformation.
Or that she is part of a lying environment at CBS, and is trying to please her masters. When you see the eye, expect the lie.
I haven't watched network news since 1989. Disinformation in the mainstream network news media doesn't surprise me, it's part of the reason why I don't watch them anymore, only after the fact that I learned that Walter Cronkite was known to lie countless times during the Vietnam War coverage.
I think you are much too generous.
Lately, more and more, I see the MSM getting facts wrong. I mean, I always noticed it before but recently I feel I can't trust ANYTHING from them. Especially, I have been noticing misleading headlines and articles stating "facts" that don't exist.
Terri perhaps was the most obvious of these. I think perhaps they are confused by the success of the new media, and are trying to compete by using false hyperbole and such.
Journalists seem to be creatures that have confused their clueless opinions for the truth. I mean, they seem truly uneducated.
Ever since the inception of 24-hour cable news, it' s become apparent that even a no-talent assclown can become a journalist. I mean that with all sincerity. They can get their facts wrong all they want, and they don't even have to know U.S. or World History. Walk up to any journalist and ask them any question about U.S. or World History, and the reaction you will get will be truly amazing. It will be one of pure ignorance.
I absolutely refuse to watch any program on CBS, and have done so for 2 years. The station is blocked on my TV.
My tagline highlights liberalism with every post.
When Terri was tortured by Starvation and Dehydration, for the second time, in October of 2003, I realized just how low the MSM is at distorting the truth and misleading their viewers. Obviously they are trying to create support for the ghouls of the Culture of Death. George Soros/Felos/Greer and their ilk, must be proud.
As I'm typing this post, Evan Thomas of Newsweek is complaining about Tom Delay on MSNBC. Do these jerks know how sickening they are? Delay probably has more support NOW, than he ever did.
Ooooh, I like that! ;-)
Not entirely wrong?
"Early this morning, the House Government Reform Committee decided to launch an investigation into the case and issued subpoenas that order doctors and the administrator at the hospice facility in Pinellas Park, Fla., where the severely brain-damaged woman resides not to remove her feeding tube and keep her alive until the investigation is complete."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43378
Congress enacted unusual legislation in the days before Schiavo's death in hopes of lending legal support to Schiavo's parents, who were *****seeking a federal court order to have their daughter's feeding tube reconnected.*** They were turned down at every level, including the U.S. Supreme Court, despite the measure that Bush signed quickly after it passed.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/13/213443.shtml
Taking the Senate’s lead, the House early Monday ****passed a bill to let the woman’s parents ask a federal judge to prolong Schiavo’s life by reinserting her feeding tube.***** President Bush signed the measure less than an hour later.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7212079/
After a heated legal and political battle, the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was removed Friday afternoon, despite a last-ditch effort by Congress to prevent it.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said he and other Republicans in Congress will work through the weekend on legislation to force doctors to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Schiavo/story?id=595905&page=1
Sounds like DeLay's own remarks led to the idea that Congress meant to have the tube in?
And this was unreported or underreported as well:
GULFPORT, Fla. — State investigators found no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either side of her family, according to documents released by Florida's Department of Children and Families.
The agency investigated 89 complaints dating back to 2001, when Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the first time and the legal battle surrounding her right-to-die case intensified.
The calls alleged that the brain-damaged woman was being mistreated by her husband and her parents for financial gain. One complaint alleged that Schiavo's parents were selling videos of her through a Web site; another said Schiavo's husband wasn't spending money intended for her rehabilitation.
But investigators said they found no evidence that either her husband or parents were exploiting her, and often noted in their records that they found Schiavo well cared for on their visits to her Pinellas Park hospice.
The agency released the records Friday under court order.
Schiavo, 41, died last month after her feeding tube was removed for the third time, ending a bitter court battle between her husband, Michael Schiavo, and parents, Robert and Mary Schindler,over whether she would have wanted to live in a vegetative state.
The repeated allegations of abuse were based partly on bone scans showing Terri Schiavo suffered fractures and statements she made to family and friends that she was unhappy in her marriage.
Schiavo's husband has denied harming his wife. His lawyer said the fractures resulted from osteoporosis caused by the woman's years of immobility and complications of her medication.
Robert Schindler declined to comment there on the release of the DCF documents. An attorney for Michael Schiavo did not immediately return calls.
What was done to Terri is going to haunt this nation for a very long time.
Perhaps it should. However, it will not.
This case is in the final stages of being white-washed by the best spinners in the legal, political and media professions.
And justice lays bleeding in the street...
If I understood correctly Zacharias Moussaui will get a full federal re-trial of the 'facts' before he can be put to death.
Its a sad shame our disabled aren't allowed the same safeguards.
Hey politicians/judges, when it comes to the incapicated:
How about one "no" vote out of twelve and you don't execute?
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