Posted on 09/08/2009 7:53:00 AM PDT by SmithL
"You Don't Know Jack" is the perfect title for the upcoming HBO biopic starring Al Pacino as Death Doc Jack Kevorkian - because it is clear that many of Kevorkian's fawning interviewers don't know much about Jack.
Fox News' Neil Cavuto, for example, last week introduced Kevorkian as a "Michigan physician who claims to have assisted in the suicides of at least 130 terminally ill people from 1990 to 1998."
Physician? Not the kind who treats patients. Kevorkian was a pathologist until his medical license was yanked in 1991. In 1999, a Michigan jury convicted him of second-degree murder after he gave a lethal injection to Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
As for the risible notion that his victims were terminally ill, well, it collapses in the harsh light of a New England Journal of Medicine analysis of the autopsies of 69 Kevorkian cases in Oakland County, Mich. The report found that three-quarters of Kevorkian's "patients" were not terminally ill. Indeed, five showed no evidence of disease.
That's right, folks, he engaged in what Cavuto called "mercy killings" for healthy people.
President Obama cannot be happy that Kevorkian gave a quasi-endorsement of ObamaCare on Cavuto's show. "The death panel makes it sound so negative," he grimaced.
In the same hour, Kevorkian spoke up for Michael Jackson's doctor, as he dryly observed, "The patient got what he wanted."
If Cavuto says so himself, Kevorkian made for "a very insightful and at times convoluted interview."
But what's truly convoluted is the glorification of Kevorkian as an agent of "mercy." Where is the mercy in telling vulnerable people that they should want to die?
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I saw the entire interview.
Cavuto made no attempt to either support or marginalize Kevorkian’s actions or views.
If it had been anyone other than Cavuty, SFChron would have given the interviewer a pass on what I saw as a good interview.
He will be Obamas Death czar
I saw the (very long) interview. Cavuto’s intro to him left much to be desired. It was apparent that Cavuto knew little about the sinister character Kevorkian. Dr. Death was rambling, almost incoherent, and did little to dispel any notion that he didn’t deserve his nickname.
Kevorkian would be a perfect choice to chair Obama’s “death panels”.
He’s an educated serial killer
Thus, Ms. Saunders clearly displays her ignorance and lets us know not to trust what she writes.
I'm grateful she did it early in the article to warn people it was vacuous.
sicko
IMHO....
Kevorkian will go down in history as the most audacious serial killer ever known. He’s killed more than 100 people and done so in the plain sight of everyone, gathering the kind of fame that most serial killers crave without any of the consequences.
Just my opinion.
Thank you for posting this....I think this information should be spread as far and wide as possible, to get the truth out about this serial killer.
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