You know, watching Michael's pathetic performance on Nightline this past week was a revelation. I was always willing to give a tiny bit of credence to Michael's assertions that Terri told him, "No tubes for me" way back when.
But that vanished as I saw him react very badly to the critical question.
He seemed stunned, caught off guard, and he looked and sounded like a LYING man as he gave an incoherent answer.
This transcript excerpt does NOT do justice to the visual and auditory experience of watching him try to answer this question, which goes to the
heart of his case. His eyelashes were blinking a mile a minute.
The transcript captures nothing of this, or of his stuttering delivery.
For a husband who is supposedly fighting a courageous crusade to fulfill his wife's wishes, he seems terribly unsure of himself.
BURY: She had verbally expressed them in what context exactly?
SCHIAVO: Through watching some TV program, a conversation that happened regarding her uncle that was very ill.
BURY: And how long ago was that?
SCHIAVO: Oh, we're talking -- it's now been 15 years. We're talking a couple of year, three years before this happened to Terri.
BURY: So there's no kind of written record at all. It's basically your recollection and those of other family members.
SCHIAVO: Yes, it is.
And Greer destroys a human life on Michael's word. Oh, yeah, Michael's word is gospel. Like how he promised to stick with Terri through sickness and health? LOL!
"I was always willing to give a tiny bit of credence to Michael's assertions that Terri told him, "No tubes for me" way back when."
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Hmmm...according to a sworn statement from the girlfriend of the estranged husband that's not the way it was:
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Regarding that alleged conversation [that Terri supposedly said she would want to die in such a situation] -- Cindy Shook said that Michael Schiavo said:
"How the hell should I know, we never spoke about this, we were young."
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