This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis

The Useful Idiots in the Mainstream Media

It's all in the wording of the question, isn't it? Remember the much-ballyhooed ABC news poll on Terri Schiavo and how the whole country was supportive of Michael Schiavo?

It seems Zogby came out with a poll in which the questions more accurately reflected the Terri Schiavo situation. Lo and behold, most Americans opposed what was done to Terri:

Polls leading up to the death of Terri Schiavo made it appear Americans had formed a consensus in favor of ending her life. However, a new Zogby poll with fairer questions shows the nation clearly supporting Terri and her parents and wanting to protect the lives of other disabled patients.

The Zogby poll found that, if a person becomes incapacitated and has not expressed their preference for medical treatment, as in Terri's case, 43 percent say "the law presume that the person wants to live, even if the person is receiving food and water through a tube" while just 30 percent disagree.

Another Zogby question hi[t]s directly on Terri's circumstances.

"If a disabled person is not terminally ill, not in a coma, and not being kept alive on life support, and they have no written directive, should or should they not be denied food and water," the poll asked.

A whopping 79 percent said the patient should not have food and water taken away while just 9 percent said yes. . . .

"When there is conflicting evidence on whether or not a patient would want to be on a feeding tube, should elected officials order that a feeding tube be removed or should they order that it remain in place," respondents were asked.

Some 18 percent said the feeding tube should be removed and 42 percent said it should remain in place. . . .

The poll found that 49 percent of Americans believe there should be exceptions to the right of a spouse to act as a guardian for an incapacitated spouse. Only 39 percent disagreed.

When asked directly about Terri's case and told th[at] her estranged husband Michael "has had a girlfriend for 10 years and has two children with her" 56 percent of Americans believed guardianship should have been turned over to Terri's parents while 37 percent disagreed.

Do I need to spell out the implications for you? Okay, here it is: The mainstream media in their reporting on Terri Schiavo abandoned objectivity and became partisan advocates for the euthanasia movement. They were puppets whose strings were pulled by George Felos and other anti-life advocates.