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LA Times smears Tom DeLay on his father’s death

Tom DeLay’s dad was in a coma in 1988. He couldn’t breathe without life support. He had made his intentions known to his family that should a situation like that occur, he was to be removed from life support. His family collectively agreed to do it…no judges, emergency orders, acts of Congress, etc. He was not starved, nor was he killed by his family. Nature took its course.

Well, the LA Times has hit a new low in its reporting…as if it were any more possible. The same fishwrap that brought election-eve stories about the Governator’s on-set groping (isn’t the left always telling us that what happened eons ago is irrelevant?) has now brought another low (and analogically deficient) story to us. It seems as though the paper thinks that DeLay is a hypocrite because he wanted to fight to keep Terri Schiavo from starving to death…a death worse than that which is permitted for death row child murderers, household pets, or al Qaeda suicide camel jockeys.

From NewsMax:

Moreover, unlike Charles DeLay, Schiavo was not and has never been in a coma.

Most important, she has never required artificial life support systems such as the oxygen equipment sustaining the life of DeLay’s father.

Almost all of the advocates supporting Terri’s right to life and basic sustenance agree that artificial life support from machines is not required.

In the Schiavo case, Terri is not kept alive by any machines, such as a respirator. In fact, she breathes on her own, reacts to her surroundings and, according to testimony of nurses who treated her, was able to speak and otherwise communicate. Considering that she is now nine days into forced starvation and still alive, she was in considerably good health.

The facts are clear. In the case of Charles DeLay, nature was allowed to take its course. He was comatose and could not be kept alive without artificial equipment, including a respirator.

Terri Schiavo, to the contrary, has survived for 15 years without being hooked up to any machines and is only being fed, a natural need shared by all human beings.

Charles DeLay expired naturally. Terri Schiavo was condemned to death by a judge who demanded that she be dehydrated and starved.

She is being killed by the denial of basic sustenance – distinctions the Times chose to ignore in its effort to smear Tom DeLay.

Terri breathed just fine without a respirator. She was not kept alive by artificial means…food and water is hardly “artificial.” The Times, naturally, doesn’t let that little factoid get in the way of their hit piece on DeLay. And the LAT wonders why its circulation has been plummeting for years!

March 28, 2005 - Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized