Countdown on MSNBC tonight, didn't catch the time:
"Michael Schiavo tells how he plans to fight the politicians who used Terri's life."
Countdown begins at 8:00 pm EST.
I noted it is at 8:00pm tonight. Safely after most of dinner is settled.
The little I saw of Michael's comments highlighted his typical doublespeak...in which he tries to have things both ways, and ends up contradicting himself.
While she was alive, pro-Terri folks mentioned that she needed corrective lenses to see. Common sense says that her need for corrective lenses would handicap her performance on neurological exams where she was asked to follow something smallish, like a doctor's finger, with her eyes.
After Terri's death Michael drags out the "vision thing."
All of a sudden ...Terri's poor vision is of concern to Michael.
Michael now says the autopsy shows Terri was cortically blind, and that a doctor he chose was right in saying, before her death, that she was blind*
Question #1 : Isn't Michael's contention that she was blind disproven by Cranford's video, which shows Terri's eyes following a balloon several times.
Her eyes do follow a balloon on three separate occasions, surprising even a doctor selected by her husband, Michael Schiavo.
Question #2. Weren't the pro-Terri people more correct than Michael's doctor, in saying Terri could see, but needed her glasses? After all, she could see a large shiny, balloon.
I also hope that Olbermann questions Michael's inference that the autopsy showed Terri's brain was too small for her to "deserve" life.
Aren't PVS diagnoses better made by examining live patients, rather than by taking apart dead bodies of people who have been dehydrated for 13 day?
Terri was killed because it is un-PC to make sure that our sickest brothers and sisters get the treatment they deserve.
Terri was killed because a Florida statute, written not so long ago, changed the classification of feeding tubes.
It's time to revisit that statute.