MRC’s Brent Baker reported some journalists, on talk shows over the weekend, used the Schiavo case to forward their personal political agendas. On “Inside Washington,” NPR’s
Nina Totenberg contended that “if we really believed in an unmitigated,
uncurbed in any way culture of life, we would be having universal health
care.” Colbert King of the Washington Post raised the school shooting in northern
Minnesota and asked: “What about the guns that take away the life?” On “The
McLaughlin Group,” Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift castigated the Republican Party
for only caring “about people before they’re born and then really after
they’re dead. What about the time in between? That’s when we need
government involved.” So Terri is as good as dead to Eleanor.