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Tonight on A&E, they had a program on Terri Schiavo. During the first 15 minutes or so of the program, they have a film clip of Michael Schiavo on the Larry King Show. This is his exact quote: "She said...we were watching some programs and she said: 'I don't want...I don't want anything artificial like that. I don't want any tubes. Don't let me live like that. I don't want to be a burden to anybody." .

Yet, in the World Net Daily article : "Michael Schiavo told the court he and Terri had talked about life support when her grandmother was in a nursing home, unconscious for weeks and on a ventilator."

Besides being two different takes on when, why and how she told him she didn't want to be kept alive by artificial means, I'd stake my next month's pension check on the fact that each time he's told this story, he's embellished it even more.

This guy is clearly a liar. I'm not sure when his appearance on Larry King took place, but his statement seems eerily similar to that of Diane Meyer, whose testimony was trashed by Judge Greer. This guy fabricates a story eight years after the fact and then can't even keep that story straight.

Haven't read all the posts here but have been following Terri's case on TV and radio. I went to the terrisfight.org and read the timeline of events since her injury..what is interesting is that Judge Greer has been on the case since the first as has been Felos..and there is an accounting of the funds that were won for Terri's medical care..seems the lawyers got quite a lot of it. This "husband" is suspect right down to the ground. He has wanted her dead for a long time it seems and now he is going to get his own way and he cares little for anyone. Oh, the timeline also shows where he petitioned the court for her CREMATIOn and on Greta tonight she asked a priest about this as regards the Catholic Chruch. What do you bet that when poor Terri dies, that he won't even let her family come to the funeral..and of course cremation is a great way to prevent any post mortum....what a skunk.
There is a saying that what comes around goes around. It would be some justice if he were to learn the lesson personally that he is inflicting on Terri..What an EVIL man.

I have that transcript. See post #41 for the url. The program aired Oct 27, 2003. I caught the discrepancy. Although I have no doubt he is lying, one could make the argument that Terri said BOTH things.

WND has a different Schiavo quote about the grandmother, but I remember a quote from him (& I think it was in a court transcript or deposition) where he said Terri said, upon visiting her grandmother in a nursing home with him, that she wouldn't want to be a burden to anybody. I remember it because I thought it was odd and unlike a granddaughter to view her grandmother as being a burden to the nursing home.

And regarding the TV watching, I thought the quote was phrased oddly -- "watching SOME programs" -- instead of A program....weird & also very vague.

It is a judicial disgrace the judge ever deemed the testimony of Michael, his brother, & his brother's wife (whom, BTW he always refers to not as my sister-in-law or my brother's wife but as "Terri's best friend") "CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE" -- pul-lease!

I think, however, that a court could reason Terri said both things at different times. The best counterargument is something Hannity has been hitting, and that is sworn testimony of 2 people who said Michael said to them that he had no idea what Terri would have wanted, and to one of them he added, "We were so young then." That should have been enough to disqualify his testimony as not credible.