Michael Schiavo versus Joe Lieberman

Jewish World Review ^ | August 31, 2006 | Nat Hentoff

[Caleb1411]

Among the celebrities journeying to Connecticut to support Ned Lamont's campaign to unseat Sen. Joseph Lieberman (now running as an independent, having lost the Democratic primary to Lamont) is Michael Schiavo, known around the world as the husband who finally succeeded in having the feeding tube removed from his late wife, Terri Schiavo.

Schiavo pointedly reminded Connecticut voters that Sen. Lieberman has supported the president and Congressional Republicans in passing emergency legislation involving federal courts in an attempt to save Terri Schiavo's life while he, Michael Schiavo, was respecting her wishes — which she could no longer communicate — to die.

Connecticut voters were not informed that Democrats as well as Republicans were in favor of intervention by federal courts — including Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, who is deeply knowledgeable about disability rights.

Nor, of course, did Schiavo, while on the hustings, mention that when the feeding tube was removed, Terri Schiavo was not terminal, was breathing naturally on her own — and, according to several of the neurologists who had examined her (others disagreed), was not in a persistent vegetative state. And not only her parents and siblings witnessed that though she could not speak, Terri was responsive.

I covered the Terri Schiavo case for more than four years, going against nearly all of the other media in emphasizing and documenting that this was not a "right to die" case, but a disability-rights case. And that's why many leading disability-rights organizations filed legal briefs — unreported by most of the press — on her behalf.

Terri Schiavo was indeed brain-damaged, but her husband had stopped all testing and rehabilitation for her in 1993 (Terri died in March 2005). For years, Michael Schiavo — while "devoted" to his wife's wishes — was living with another woman, with whom he

[rhombus]

Mikey is going to have to deal with that conscience thing for a long time.

[raybbr]

Michael "Scheevo" endorses...

[mrmargaritaville]

Why doesn't this miserable POS crawl in a hole somewhere and just leave us alone?
His fifteen minutes were up quite some time ago.

[TommyDale]

Michael Schiavo? Oh, no! Now Joe Lieberman is in serious trouble! LOL!

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri AUGUST Dailies

8mm

[TheSarce]

Nat Hentoff ping.

[8mmMauser]

Within seconds! LOL

[HEY4QDEMS]

Michael Schiavo, known around the world as the husband who finally succeeded in having the feeding tube removed from murdering his late wife, Terri Schiavo.

There, now it's fixed.

[Sgt_Schultze]

His conscience is the smallest of his worries. One day Michael will be called to account for his deeds and he will know, for an eternity, how Terri felt in her dying hours.

[TheSarce]

Ya beat me fair and square! ;-)

Nice to see Hentoff still speaking out with simple clarity.

[LIConFem]

A murderer supporting a coward. Fitting...

[fatnotlazy]

I guess Schiavo needs another 15 minutes of fame. This could well backfire for Lamont.

[HEY4QDEMS]

This could well backfire for Lamont.

I agree. I wonder if there is any way that we can forward Lamont's contact info to Harry Belafonte, that should ice it for sure.

[JennysCool]

I still can't believe how many FReepers backed the Cindy Sheehan of Euthanasia and his corrupt jurist-partner during that whole tragic farce. I hope they now can see that Schiavo is, and always was, just another moonbat.

[Constitution Day]

LMAO

[PeskyOne]

I agree. If anyone did a Google search of Judge Greer, they would have found enough information to make you wonder how this man was allowed to sit on the bench. Not only was/is he legally blind, he didn't pay attention to all the information available to him. He chose to listen to George Felos, the Euthanasia attorney for Michael Schiavo. There's an interesting article here about Schiavo and Felos:

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/040306FelosWish.html

Let him campaign for Democrats...I don't think he will help them. He not only looks dumb, he talks dumb, and looks so mean with the cold and blank stare in his eyes.

[T'wit]

Nat Hentoff is a thoughtful man of the Left who writes honestly, agree with him or not. Hentoff never did put up with Schiavo's and Felos's lies, and he defied his own media world to tell Terri's story, with force and righteous anger, in the Village Voice. (He took a lot of heat for it from his leftist readers, but it never turned him away from the truth.) Well done, Nat Hentoff.

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[goldstategop]

Michael hates every one for trying to save his wife. He's beyond evil.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )