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It's a good thing that Media Matters keeps track of the ongoing, sleazy hypocrisy involving the Terri Schiavo case, just so you don't have to.
In particular, you have to love the CNN anchor here, bringing up allegations of abuse while admitting he has absolutely nothing to substantiate them:
PHILLIPS: Bob, real quickly, just since you're outside the hospice there -- those who are caring for Terri Schiavo at this time. Yesterday, as you know, for the first time a former -- or a nurse who formerly cared for Terri Schiavo came forward -- not from this hospice but from another convalescence center-- just talking about Michael Schiavo and how she felt he was a threat to those caring for Terri Schiavo. Anybody responding to that? Anybody talking about that?
FRANKEN: No, and I'll tell you why, because there's an awful lot of very intense rhetoric right now. It's very difficult for anybody to sift through it. There are charges that Michael Schiavo years ago before the cardiac arrest happened, that there was some abuse, that there's been some litigation about that. As a matter of fact, the Department of Abuse and Family Matters in the state of Florida is in the local court now trying to get those records, records that have been kept confidential in the past. So, there is a lot of information, a lot of charges flying around. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to confirm any of them, including the comments of the nurse.
But it's not going to stop Franken from publicizing them, corroboration or no corroboration, is it? CNN: When you don't quite have the stomach for the vile depravity that is Fox News, but are working your way up to it slowly.
P.S. And about that Nobel Prize nomination ...
UPDATE: Survey says!! ...
Congressional leaders have insisted their only motivation in getting involved in the Terri Schiavo case was saving a life. But Americans aren’t buying that argument, a CBS News poll finds.
An overwhelming 82 percent of the public believes the Congress and President should stay out of the matter.
And don't you remember the good old days when 51-48 was a "mandate"?
And as a recent commenter points out, Dahlia Lithwick weighs in with yet another column, pointing out how the right wing's idea of "sanctity of marriage" appears to have a shelf life.
Just ran across it recently -- www.brendan-nyhan.com -- clearly focused on American politics and related issues. Go. Read.
Go, Dook.
UPDATE: By a mad coincidence, I will be in Chapel Hill the weekend of the Final Four. I think I need to find me a Final Four party.
(Moved up to the top as a constant, nagging reminder.)
Oh, my. According to one of my regular, right-wing chew toys, I am incapable of admitting error. Jinx is, naturally, entitled to his opinion but, truth be told, I'd just as soon he didn't write about me and use the phrase "massive virtual orgasm" at the same time. I'm pretty sure that says something creepy about one of us.
P.S.: And, not that I'm getting anxious or anything but I'm still waiting for the first submission to the Canadian Cynic "David did too defend a liberal once" challenge. That's OK, I'm sure Jinx is crossing his i's and dotting his t's as we speak. Can't wait.
Still waiting ...
... and waiting ...
... and waiting ...
... and wai ... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ...
And in taking a vicious swipe at the GOP's unprecedented and hypocritical intervention into the Terri Schiavo case, the man said:
"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy. There are going to be repercussions from this vote. There are a number of people who feel that the government is getting involved in their personal lives in a way that scares them."
And who is this obviously socialist, commie sympathizer, this America-hating left-wing radical, who clearly must be driven from civilized society? Where is liberal hunter David Horowitz when you need him? Smithers! Release the ... oh, wait. It's Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut. That's Republican Representative Christopher Shays.
Sorry. Carry on.
Well, when we said "roadless," we didn't really mean, you know, technically, without actual roads, per se.
Hmmmm .... perhaps it's just an anomaly in the blogspace-time continuum, but it appears that my personal attack Bichon Frise "Dizzy Gillespie" no longer has an active blog site.
I'm hoping it had nothing to do with our little spat back here ... oh, who am I kidding, I think it would be just delightful if I managed to drive that little twerp whining and sniffling from the blogosphere, bleeding profusely from a series of savage beatdowns.
But don't worry. I promise to use my power only for good, not evil.
(CC News) In yet another day of the ongoing media circus involving vegetative patient Terry Schiavo, hundreds of devout Christians gathered in front of her hospital, praying fervently and desperately that someone from the news media would come by and take a picture of them praying fervently and desperately.
"Sorry," said one middle-aged man, carrying a large "John 3:16" banner and trying frantically to get himself in front of a network's TV camera, "Terri who?"
On the one hand, you want to get away from the conservative-driven circus of idiots that the Terry Schiavo case has become just to write about a different topic. And yet, you can't ignore articles like this one from Juan Cole, drawing some really uncomfortable parallels between the Christian fundamentalists running America, and their Islamic counterparts.
And, not surprisingly, the Rude Pundit weighs in one more time and, like this correspondent, is pretty much ready to move on. There are still creationists that desperately need to be slapped around.
Apparently, Bill Frist isn't just a doctor, he plays one by TV.
TOTALLY UNRELATED ADDITIONAL LINKS: It's really satisfying to find writing that makes you think about the issues. Like here and here. And here.
OK, I was just kidding about that last one.
And even though it's not scientific, an online survey regarding Terri Schiavo here at CNN is eye-poppingly revealing. In answer to the question, "Who should decide Terri Schiavo's fate?", we have the results as of 5:40 PM today:
- Her husband: 73%
- Her parents: 22%
- Judges: 4%
- Politicians: 1%
So ... husband: 73%; politicians: 1%. Yeah, I'd call that a freakin' "mandate".
Right-wing loon and career liberal hunter David Horowitz, over at his Front Page Mag site has, part way down the URLs on the right-hand side, a link to an article at the Drudge Report, the link being titled "'Playgirl' Editor Fired for Being Republican".
Now, remember, this is David Horowitz, apparently carping about the inherent unfairness of discriminating against someone for their ideological leanings.
Really.
I've always been a math geek (number theory, combinatorics, crypto, that sort of stuff). So I'm amused when people who should know better make a mess of childishly simple arithmetic and statistics. Like here. The deception involved doesn't even require any additional comment from me, does it?
Read the comments section there.
From this piece over at Media Matters:
Dr. William Hammesfahr, a Florida neurologist who claims that he can help Terri Schiavo, has promoted his treatment plan on Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club ...
From over here at My Blahg, Robert reports on the occasional right-wing loon, getting just a bit carried away, hyperbole-wise, in ranting about Canadian doctor and ardent pro-choice defender Henry Morgentaler receiving an honorary degree at the University of Western Ontario:
I think it's an absolute scandal that they could do such a thing. As far as I'm concerned, he's the greatest mass murderer in Canadian history.
Hmmmmm. You know, when it comes to mass murder, there's always someone else that leaps to mind:
The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."
Which, I'm assuming, would include all child-bearing women and their fetuses. I'm thinking that, when it comes to mass murder of unborn children, Dr. Morgentaler has some pretty stiff competition.
And, just so I'm clear, you're trusting this company with your entire corporate IT infrastructure?
I'm reminded of an old Pat Robertson cartoon, which can be paraphrased nicely for the occasion:
Robertson: "I see ... I see a young man with a brain tumour. That brain tumour is gone! I see a mother with ovarian cancer. That cancer is healed! I see an old man with arthritis. That arthritis is cured! I see a young woman who's been in an almost totally vegetative state for 15 years. Gosh, that's too bad."
Apparently, there are some folks who regret having had abortions:
Immediately following the January 24 US National March for Life in Washington, women who regret their abortions will speak at the Supreme Court. Guests include the national spokesperson for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, actress, model, author, Jennifer O'Neill and the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Alveda King.
The women will stand in front of the Supreme Court holding signs that say "I Regret My Abortion" and will be speaking about their abortion experience.
I'm wondering ... would the conservative wingnuts who think this is somehow significant and speaks to the evil of abortion think the same in the face of a rally of pissed-off citizens carrying signs that read "I Regret Having Voted Republican"?
Just asking.
Yes, this is high priority. Go. Read.
BREAKING NEWS: The "Let's parade Terry Schiavo around in a disgusting act of political grandstanding" bill just passed the Senate unanimously. Unanimously. Supported by every single present voting member. All three of them.
THE RUDE PUNDIT WEIGHS IN AGAIN: Today's just a "link elsewhere" kind of day. And, by the way, where the fuck is Pat Robertson, just when someone could really use a laying on of hands? You'd think he'd be all over this like white on rice, wouldn't you?
