Posted on 10/26/2003 8:37:27 AM PST by 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.
Possibly to protect the child, but as someone else pointed out, it souldn't be too hard to find out about this. Somebody knows the particulars.
I wasn't reading it that way at all. I suppose it could happen, but I don't see why the child would have to be exposed in order for those who have the ability to do so to investigate it and bring it light before the court, unless this is all about the pro-death cause from the get go and they won't look at facts that are not in keeping with the agenda they're promoting.
From everything I've read, the Schindlers have never even been given a fair chance to argue their case and nothing against their attorney, but I don't think they ever expected this case to get this big and I just don't think Ms. Anderson is up to the task. Meanwhile, Felos, the minigod wannabe, has the opportunity of a lifetime to capitalize on his new found fame and he is dancing circles around her and dazzling the media with all the fluff. They've yet to notice that there's no substance, not that they'd likely care anyway. I really hope they will try to enlist the help of the ACLJ. Ms. Anderson has been informed about them and what she would need to do to get them involved.
God forbid they do. We need to double or triple our effort and keep it up. But we do have the hope that the spotlight of publicity -- especially as it shines on Michael Schiavo's contemptible and deeply suspicious actions over the years -- can prevent the next attempt at murdering Terri.
Might go the other way. The LA TIMES sure stirred things up with some ancient groping charges against Arnold.
Please go to the CNN poll and vote for TERRI!!!!
earlier this afternoon the poll was 77% against her having the feeding tube reinserted and 23% FOR IT.
Now it stands at 58% against the tube being reinserted and 42% GLAD it was reinserted!!!!
PLEASE HELP TERRI gain ammunition against those who would see her left to die.
This poll can be used by either side....let's make it OURS!
PLEASE DO THIS! The poll is on CNN-
Can you please give a link to where you found this information? Many thanks in advance!
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