Posted on 03/24/2006 2:33:29 PM PST by topher
Michael Schiavo Caught in Serious Distortion of Truth on NBC Interview
By John-Henry Westen
CLEARWATER, FLA., March 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Michael Schiavo, who ordered doctors to withhold food and water from his severely disabled wife Terri until she died, and his current wife Jodi were interviewed by NBC's Matt Lauer. Those exclusive interviews based on Schiavo's upcoming book "Terri: The Truth," are to be broadcast on "Dateline," Sunday, March 26 at 7 p.m.. Ironically, despite claiming to speak about 'the truth' concerning Terri, NBC's Lauer catches Schiavo in a serious distortion of truth as the interview begins.
In the interview, Michael responds to Lauer asking why he would not just divorce Terri - since he was already living with another woman with whom he had fathered children - leaving Terri with her own parents who were begging to be allowed to care for her. Michael answered, "When you sit in a courtroom and you hear her father say I'll cut her arms and her legs off, just to keep her alive, why would I want to put their daughter back in their care if he's gonna (sic) do that to her."
At this point Lauer interjects to say, "Let's make sure we understand that statement," with Schiavo trying to cut him off all the while, he adds, "I think the statement was, if she were to develop gangrene, and had to have limbs amputated, he would do that and okay that as long as he could still have her alive. That's a little different than the way you . . ." At this point Schiavo, who had been interrupting Lauer the whole way through his clarification interrupts definitively cutting off Lauer and changing the subject.
The interview is one sided, in that it presents only Michael's point of view and ends with Michael relating through his tears his last moments with Terri, going so far as to say, "She's up there praising me right now... and saying thank you."
Lauer notes that the book is not about honouring Terri, but about settling some scores. To which Schiavo responds, "Oh yes it does."
At another point in the interview, Lauer asks, "People have often asked. Michael why didn't you divorce Terri, you were living with Jodi." Schiavo replies, "Why do I have to divorce Terri? Terri wasn't like a football- an inanimate object you pass back and forth. She was my wife. You mean because your wife gets sick, do you give her back?"
Asked about his decision to remove Terri's feeding tube despite the pleas of Americans, groups from around the world and even the Vatican, Schiavo said, "Yeah, well I guess when it all boiled down, I couldn't understand why these people were so passionate about my life... People are allowed to die every day. Feeding tubes are removed every day."
Schiavo will appear live on "Today," Monday, March 27, and with Jodi on Tuesday, March 28.
To see a preview video excerpt of the interview go here and click on the 'launch' button;
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11943750/
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage: Terri Schiavo's Husband Re-Married in Catholic Church http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06012306.html
Ten Year Old Arrested for Giving Food to Terri Schiavo Apologizes
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/aug/05083103.html
But that is taken out of context - Bob Schindler said that if Terri developed gangrene, he would ask that the infected limbs be amputated.
Maybe the title should Lies, Sex, and Video...
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Gee, that's just too bad. /s
I already knew this and Michael has always distorted the truth. He is a liar, always was! He didn't like the fact that terris parents would amputate if she was faced with gangrene or something like that, but he sure did love seeing her starve to death! SICk twisted SOB!
In the interview, Michael responds to Lauer asking why he would not just divorce Terri - since he was already living with another woman with whom he had fathered children - leaving Terri with her own parents who were begging to be allowed to care for her. Michael answered, "When you sit in a courtroom and you hear her father say I'll cut her arms and her legs off, just to keep her alive, why would I want to put their daughter back in their care if he's gonna (sic) do that to her."
Cindy Sheehan offered to whack her son with the family car to mangle his legs to keep him out of service yet no one is allowed to be critical of her relationship with her son.
This guy is a real piece of work. What a class act.
Self consored comment -- what'd I'd say would be deleted.
I don't think Michael Schiaov will ever be happy. IN fact I suspect his book will do terrible and he will once again be angry that people don't understand him and don't like him!
At another point in the interview, Lauer asks, "People have often asked. Michael why didn't you divorce Terri, you were living with Jodi." Schiavo replies, "Why do I have to divorce Terri? Terri wasn't like a football- an inanimate object you pass back and forth. She was my wife. You mean because your wife gets sick, do you give her back?"
Michael had ALREADY abandoned his wife to commit adultery (or bigamy). She would be given BACK to those who brought her into this world and had HER best interests at stake. Terri was a goldmine to this leech.
Of course you don't give her back, Michael, you kill her instead. Right?
"Terri wasn't like a football- an inanimate object"
Uh, Michael tried to make EXACTLY that case. That she had no mental facilities and was not responsive to anything. Didn't feel any pain, etc.
PING
"Yeah, well I guess when it all boiled down, I couldn't understand why these people were so passionate about my life"
We didn't give a flip about your life, you selfish SOB. We were disgusted that in the absence of a signed contract you had authority to claim a living will over the wishes of her parents. Your ties to being her "legal guardian" were shaky at best as you had abandoned the marriage to shack up with a more functional wife.
Felon's guilt.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
He and Rusty are a pair.
Don't flatter yourself, you jerk. We were passionate about Terri's life, wanting her to live out her life with her parents and siblings.
That is what I will never understand? Her parents and siblings loved her and would have taken care of her the rest of her life. Why couldn't he just walk away and get on with his life?
And then the headstone, now the book. He will NEVER give this family any peace. It is beyond callous.
"Uh, Michael tried to make EXACTLY that case. That she had no mental facilities and was not responsive to anything. Didn't feel any pain, etc."
Exactly, so why can't we just put CA death row inmates in a drug induced coma and just starve them to death. It was good enough for Terri!
At another point in the interview, Lauer asks, "People have often asked. Michael why didn't you divorce Terri, you were living with Jodi." Schiavo replies, "Why do I have to divorce Terri? Terri wasn't like a football- an inanimate object you pass back and forth. She was my wife. You mean because your wife gets sick, do you give her back?"
then why the hell were u BANGING ANOTHER CHICK...HYPOCRITE BAS*ARD
"I'll wager that he gets a lot of flack wherever he goes.
Deservedly so."
Do we know anyone that would by his book?
I don't.
I hope this is a money losing book.
He doesn't need to make a penny on the suffering of his first wife.
Who knows, he could have been responsible for her death.
There was speculation that he had something to do with it.
Well, there that old saying, may you get what you want and much more.
Ah, but a pair of WHAT?? : )
(How goes it?)
My thoughts on Michael are quite well known. My thoughts about his wife Jodi are yet to develop. What kind of woman is she? Is she as evil as him or as stupid as they come?
The more I read and learn about Michael Schiavo the more I would classify him as a psychopath. One that takes pleasure in the suffering death of another while watching her family suffer a heartache no parent should go through.
Who'd best watch her back.
I hope this turd keeps talking and having ghost-written books so everybody can see just what he is. Especially some Freepers who were just salivating to let the poor girl starve.
And, somehow, I think he will continue to try and stay in the public eye to manufacture validation for his actions - because unless he's a true psychopath (like felos and greer), he CANNOT be alone with himself.
Seriously, let it go.
Its over.
Book title is:
A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo - A Lesson for us All
Don't worry, he's trying to make a movie too.
Schiavo lied? Noooooooooooo!
I'm shocked....SHOCKED, I tell you.
Don't get me started, I read all the court documents and police reports... as well as hospice reports... it was a lot worse than anyone thinks.
Oh yes, that's so much better. A family that would cut off all your appendages just to keep you alive. I have made it absolutely clear to my family, my friends, and those that may be around if I'm ever in the same situation to cut off the power and go home. There is a point that it's time to let go. It doesn't matter. The poor woman is finally at peace, it's over, move on.
And don't anyone bother responding with your 'facts' that you heard from the nurse's second cousin's waitress' friend who works at Denny's who just happened to be sitting next to Judge Greer nephew's next door neighbor in a Scientology meeting 20 years ago about some grand plan because it's over. Frankly I think the lot of you have gone off the deep end and you give conservatism a bad name
Oh no... you see how they raved over Tookie...
Funny, no one was there for the disabled blind convict who was next... wonder why that was?
Kudos to Matt Lauer for setting this creep back on his heels.
Banging? He had two kids by her... It would seem (to a novice of anything legal), that a DNA test would show that Terri wasn't his first interest and him being guardian was not in the best interest of Terri.
"I couldn't understand why these people were so passionate about my life..."
We weren't concerned about your sorry ass-life, it was your wife we cared about.
Because he didn't write a childrens book, duh;)
It is not the fact that Terri is dead, it is that others will try to do the same thing to their LOVED ONES...
There are two books coming out about Terri - which is why this is news - one by her parents and siblings and the one by her husband.
It is just a case of a Good Ol' Boy stacked deck. The attorney Felos was Chairman of the Hospice one year before Terri was admitted to that Hospice. He stepped down as Chairman of the Board of the Hospice, and then got Terri admitted and then proceeded with trying to execute her - which he successfully did in 2005.
A number of the County Board of Supervisors of Pinellas County were on the Board of Directors of the Hospice...
Sort of like lynching an African American in the deep South in the 1920s/1930s/1940s/1950s...
Like a friend of mine tells her 4 year old when he whines because she won't give him what she wants "to bad, so sad"
Schiavo is the one who keeps himself in the public eye. Please tell him to let it go and get out of our faces.
Sorry, WhiteGuy - it's not! It's still going on. Besides, how can WE let it go when Michael won't????
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-03-24T165910Z_01_B43401_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUN-SUBBEDRIGHTS-SCHIAVO.xml
But having a clearly written Living Will would take care of that - specifying that you would be allowed to die rather than take extreme measures for you to continue living.
There was nothing in writing about Terri, and the fact that Michael only had two kids by his lover while he was still married to Terri and was her Legal Guardian makes this case suspicious...
Terri was not their friend so she was not rescued.
no, of course not. you carry out the most pathetic assassination in the history of the human race -- well, the second most pathetic, while sleeping with your new squeeze.
this poor deranged psychopath, partnering with the death industry and pro-death zealots, used the legal system to murder Terri Schiavo in slow, excruciating motion, while the world watched.
Just when you think you've seen it all. America is to be very ashamed of itself.
Yeah, sure, whatever; if you say it mikey, it must be true. (The reason schiavo isn't "happy" is because he hasn't gotten his movie deal yet.)
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