Husband Michael Schiavo to Do Some Image-Polishing - FROM THE FRONT LINES AT VIGIL

THROWN BACK Blog ^ | October 26, 2003 | Fr. Rob Johansen

[NYer]

Husband Michael to Do Some Image-Polishing

Watch out! Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, is going to be making the rounds of the national press during the next week. The purpose of this is to portray Michael as and reinforce his image as the victim of unfair attacks, and as being solely motivated by his deep care for Terri and his desire to carry out her wishes to be killed.

The first stop of this train will be his appearance on Monday night's "Larry King Live" show. Larry King is slotted to have Michael on for a full hour, unopposed by anyone from the Schindler family. I think that I can safely predict that this will be a virtual love-fest between Michael and Larry. No similar invitation has been extended to the Schindlers, which seems to me to demonstrate where he is coming from regarding Terri. And, as the Most Intellectually Dishonest Media Personality In America Today [TM], he can be counted on to ask only fawning softball questions of Michael.

Michael has claimed to be in hiding due to death threats against him. This claim is almost certainly part of his effort to acquire a more sympathetic image. For a man in hiding, he is acting mighty peculiar: He has been seen in the last 24 hours at a local shopping mall and restaurant.

You can also expect, now that the ACLU and Euthanasia organizations have pledged to enter the fray on Michael's behalf, that the drumbeat portraying him as a victim and noble-minded humanitarian will only increase. They want to cast Terri's case as a "right to die" issue. To do that they will do everything in their power to portray Michael as the heroic figure, challenging us narrow-minded extermists who want to interfere with his "rights".

Michael's attorney, George Felos, has a well known affinity for the pro-Euthanasia movement. This movement's adherents have a fascination, one might almost say a fetish, with Death. They seek to widen the acceptable boundaries within which society will find death acceptable. To forestall that effort, we must be vigilant against their attempts to coopt the language of rights and compassion.

[MSCASEY]

Can't her family get on to make their rounds in Terri's behalf and tell their side???

MCD

[MSCASEY]

http://www.sptimes.com/

MCD

[fiesti]

if it is the article I just read it is posted on World Net Dailey

[amom]

http://www.sptimes.com/ link for the online St. Petersburg Times.

[shezza]

Re: calling into Larry King, we need to be really, really polite and professional in comments to screeners, who hold the power of the broadcast word in their greasy little hands. Chances are they'll either let through calls for-against-for-against in an evenhanded manner (bwaaa-hahahahahahaha!) or more likely, stack the callers overwhelmingly in favor of poor persecuted Martyr Mike. But getting past those call screeners is the first step.

[TaxRelief]

I think this was considered a duplicate thread and it is also technically a vanity, of course. Don't worry other news stories are still coming up in the main forum.

[sweetliberty]

PLEASE READ!!

This is the letter written by Terri's friend Kathy to the St. Petersburg times. I have been in contact with Kathy and she confirmed that she did write the letter, and several others, but that the paper chose NOT to publish it. I have encouraged Kathy and her friend Dee to join us here at FR and I will send them the link to this thread and others about Terri, so please post your personal messages to Kathy as well. She lives in the area and has been trying get someone to listen to her for a long time. I assured her that she, and Terri, have many friends here and also that we have a huge readership so it would at least be seen and circulated by a lot of people.

Dear Mr. Levesque,

I am sure that you wrote your article on Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo in what you believed was the truth. However, I can stay quiet no longer.

It is a proven fact that Mr. Schiavo had at least one affair and fathered an illegitimate child while still married to Terri before she was injured,

He is paying child support. Since her injuries, it is also a proven fact that he has been with numerous women one with whom he now has one child with another on the way.

No one has investigated nor seems to even care that the night that this happened to Terri they had had a huge fight. She had confided to family members and friends that he had become abusive and controlling. She was advised not to go home that night but to spend the night with a girlfriend but she went home. Hours later he called Bob Schindler saying Terri was on the floor hurt. He did not call 911 first.

There are medical records that sustain the fact that Terri suffered multiple broken bones that night and came to the hospital with a rigid neck. I have all that info if you are interested and would be happy to send to you.

To say that Mr. Schiavo loves Terri is nonsense.

He lost the ability to say "my wife" with any credence a very long time ago.

I wish that just one person would print the truth about this guy. I truly believe that the only reason he wants her dead so much is because he never wants her to come out of this and point the finger at him for battering her almost to death. He wants to finish what he started that night.

You probably won't investigate any of this. No one seems to care what happened to Terri but at least I know I have tried.

Sincerely, Kathleen (last name deleted)

St. Petersburg, Fl.

[nicmarlo]

BTTT!!

[ChemistCat]

I read this and got so excited because it looked like something full of verifiable facts--and get to the end and it says LAST NAME DELETED.

I'm sorry, but that just isn't going to fly with the people who have managed to stay on the fence with this. It looks made-up.

We need a "SMOKING GUN" type file of primary documents. Child support orders for that alleged first illegitimate child. And someone willing to put her name on the allegation of a fight. Otherwise it looks like lies.

I BELIEVE it myself but I cannot see this persuading anyone who doesn't already believe.

[ChemistCat]

Tell your friends that what Terri needs is primary documents that a court can't rule inadmissable....not unsigned letters with unproven allegations.

But also tell her that Terri DOES have friends here.

I'd put down my life to get her assistive communications technologies so she can tell us what SHE wants to have done, and I'd support whatever HER choice was on that.

[sweetliberty]

Did you deliberately post this to religion, or did the moderators move it. This belongs on the news forum, not in religion!

[Theodore R.]

Bulletin: Eleanor Clift calls for Terri's death!!!

Popular "Newsweek" columnist and panelist on PBS's "McLaughlin Group" this weekend called for immediate death for the stricken disabled FL woman Terri Schindler Schiavo. The fact that Clift, who started with "Newsweek" 40 years ago as a fact checker, endorses the "right-to-die" is no surprise. What was surprising was her vehemence that Terri be immediatley starved and deydrated again. Clift considers her a distasteful "vegetable."

John McLaughin, a former Catholic priest and former husband of Reagan's Labor Secretary Ann McLaughlin, should have fired her on the set for a lack of the "compassion" that she has long claimed to represent. It could have been like that time many years ago (I read about it, didn't see it) when Arthur Godfrey fired Julius LaRosa on the air.

Panelist Pat Buchanan opposed death for Terri, but the segment ended before he could elaborate on his coments.

I am sending this to other Terri threads to get maximum exposure.

[ChemistCat]

I am rather surprised they haven't just deleted the thread. SL, you have to have facts to call it news. :-(

An unsigned letter that a paper wouldn't publish isn't news.

[pollywog]

Thank you NYer for the INFO. Sorry it was blocked too. At a time where a life is in the balance!!

[CindyDawg]

Did you delete the last name or did she?

[ChemistCat]

I hope I didn't hurt her feelings. :-( I can see what she's trying to do and it's a GOOD thing. I just wish that letter was signed.

[PeyersPatches]

Hi, I have also been in email contact with Kathy and she confirmed to me that she did indeed write that letter. She also confirmed that Michael Schiavo has a teenage kid that he fathered from another woman while being married to Terri. Also, on the night that Terri collapsed, there was a huge fight between them and Terri had been advised to NOT go home but unfortunately she did go home to him and now, 13 years later, the truth of what happened to her that night may not have come out yet. My opinion is that Michael Schavio has a lot more to answer about that night.

[CindyDawg]

Where did she go? I'm just wondering if S. removed it to protect her.

[windchime]

Bump!!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

This is exactly what I was saying we needed. Hello Sean Hannity.. please interview this person on your show. E-mail Sean and tell him you are a freeper, and that this is a big issue with the freeps.. I am sure he already knows that, and see if it gets you anywhere. Ask him , beg him plead with him. He is friendly to freepers, he has been supportive to Terri's family. I will email him as well. LEts start a campaign to see the friends and family of Terri. Let's give her name a face.