[T'wit]

A nothing news item today, except it's a reminder how decent people, even Freepers, got a badly distorted view of Terri's condition and prognosis from the media.

Terri Schiavo's brother to speak in N.H.

Short story. Note this one short paragraph:

"Terri Schiavo was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state after her heart stopped in 1990. Doctors thought there was no chance she would recover enough brain function to survive without life support."

How much disinformation can you cram into two sentences? Terri hadn't been on life support for fifteen years. She needed only food and water to survive, not more "brain function."

The world may yet learn who stopped her heart that fateful night.

[wagglebee]

I believe it was Goebbels who developed the leftist practice of repeating a lie often enough that people begin to accept it as the truth.

I remember how FReepers were so amused four years ago when "Baghdad Bob" was telling reporters that Saddam was still in power, there were no American troops in Baghdad, etc. And then many of these same FReepers accepted without any second thoughts the lie that Terri was on life support.