CNN Bush Suck: Republican leadership in Congress tried to keep Terri alive

[NNN0LHI]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/29/ltm.05.html

<snip>COSTELLO: The legal fight eventually landed at the office of the Florida governor, Jeb Bush. He supported legislation called Terri's Law which was passed in 2003 and gave him the authority to have her feeding tube reinserted. But a year later, that law was declared unconstitutional by Florida Supreme Court.

By now, the fate of Terri Schiavo had become politically decisive nationwide and it touched on issue for right to life activists. In March this year, it made its way to Washington. President Bush cut short his vacation and declared when he returned to Washington that the court should have a presumption in favor of life.

But the next day, with the appeals process in Florida exhausted, doctors finally removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Even as her life ebbed away, the Republican leadership in Congress looked for new ways to keep her alive.

REP. TOM DELAY, (R) TEXAS: That act of barbarism can be and must be prevented.

CROWD: Give Terri water! Give Terri water!

COSTELLO: Outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo lay, emotions ran high and voices grew louder.

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Let me just reiterate what I say back then:

[gratuitous]

2. "Emotions ran high"

Curious how the media absolve themselves of all responsibility for emotions running high. Weeks and weeks later, when the autopsy results came in, they confirmed in every detail the diagnosis of Terri Schiavo's treating doctors (as opposed to doctors who examined her by videotape).

CNN and the rest of the media, however, because it made for better copy and heightened the possibility of some real keen footage, continued to pump up the uninformed and the misinformed and the just plain incompetent opinions of a bunch of emotional people who didn't have the first scintilla of actual knowledge about Terri Schiavo's condition.

[Spazito]

3. I saw it and it was disgusting

Not one quote from the husband or anyone not supporting the fundie position. CNN degrades itself more and more each day. The talking heads like Miles, Rush's bimbo Kagen, etc, give the bush cabal virtual blow jobs every morning.

[zbdent]

4. And, somewhere in Texas, a small child in a similar situation

was pulled from life support because her black mother didn't have enough $$$ to keep the machinery going . . . and George W. Bush signed into law the regulation which allowed the hospitals/insurance companies to yank out the cord . . .

[rocktivity]

5. Remember Baby Sun Hudson!

Click photo for more info.

P.S. Terri was never "alive"--she was a brain-dead warmed over fifteen-year-old corpse.

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