On March 18, 2005, Judge George Greer ordered that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be removed. When Greer did so, he helped set in motion a series of events that he could never have anticipated.
Despite the extraordinary attention, Schiavo's was not the most closely watched death in the early spring of 2005. Half a world away, John Paul II was also dying, he of natural causes.
After 13 agonizing days, Schiavo died on the morning of March 31. On that afternoon, in a dusty pit stop of a Kansas town called Herington, the FBI entered an abandoned home, searched it, then promptly called in the Topeka bomb squad and evacuated the neighborhood. Although these events were not at all related, the timing almost assuredly was.....
Why Bush Justice rolled over for Sandy Berger
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But since autumn, when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals opened a campaign against his research, he has drawn a torrent of outrage from animal rights activists, gay advocates and others around the world — all of it based, Roselli and colleagues said, on a bizarre misinterpretation of what the work is about.
Like a comic echo of the Terri Schiavo case, the story of the gay sheep became a textbook example of the distortion and vituperation that can result when science meets the global news cycle.
When science slams into the uninformed blogger
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Steamy stuff, huh. In my experience, the media always cover up misconduct by liberals, including treason. It's their job. Of course they gave Sandy Berger a free pass. There is no need for fanciful explanations of the timing.