Frist's Schiavo Assertion At Odds With Comments About Reeves

[meegbear]

Frist's assertion that Schiavo could recover stands in stark contrast to his attacks on John Edwards for saying back in October that stem cell research could help people like Christopher Reeve walk again. Observe:

Frist on Schiavo Possibly Recovering: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist several times questioned Schiavo's diagnosis, saying he had reviewed a videotape of her and her case file and wasn't sure whether she really was beyond recovery.

"Remember, Terri is alive. She is not in a coma," Frist said Sunday. "Although there are a range of opinions, neurologists who have examined her insist today that she is not in a persistent vegetative state. She breathes on her own - like you and me. She is not on a respirator. She is not on life support of any type. She does not have a terminal condition." (The Tennessean, 3/22/05)

Frist Attacking Edwards: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attacked Sen. John Edwards for saying that stem cell research would enable people like Christopher Reeve to “get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

Frist responded on a conference call with reporters arranged by the Bush-Cheney campaign: "I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people… We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.

“It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope." (CNN.com, 10/12/04)

http://dcinsidescoop.blogspot.com/2005/03/frists-schiavo-assertion-at-odds-with.html

[ewagner]

1. Man o man...

gotta spread this around.....

his presidential aspirations just went bye-bye!!!!

[rodeodance]

9. media blast it

[TornadoTN]

2. Damn Shame He's From Tennessee

This moron has done nothing for out state except pander to the lowest commmon denominator: The Fundie Right. Meanwhile, he sets up the healthcare and insurance industries with sweetheart deals.

Asshat to the highest degree.

[ernstbass]

5. Don't feel bad Tornado

We have George Allen - king of all buffoons in our state!!

[Bluebear]

3. "False Hope" Frist

Meegbear rules again. Great catch.

[BurtWorm]

6. That's got a great ring to it!

:thumbsup:

[meegbear]

7. Thanks BB

:hi:

[Demit]

4. what a piece of shit he is, what a lowlife.

WHEN are the Dems going to point stuff like this out? Throw it back in their faces, the hypocritical things they say! Call them on their shit!!

[deadparrot]

8. Whoa--hold the phone--Frist's a hypocrite?!

Shocker.

[rodeodance]

10. so, Terri want not about politics? te he. thanks

[HockeyMom]

11. Dear Dr. Frist

ARTIFICIAL life support INCLUDES feeding tubes. It was listed under artificial means in Mom's Living Will( SIX PAGES LONG). I am very glad your weren't her doctor. Apparently, the man not only can diagnose by video tape, he now determines what is in Living Wills too? A feeding tube is not ARTIFICIAL? Yeah, we all come equipped with them.

I also find it INFURIATING to compare Reeves to Teri Schiavo. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with Reeve's mind. How anybody could even COMPARE Reeves to a PVS state is cruel, cruel, cruel. I work with the dibbled. They are NOT in a vegetative state. They can think, they can FEEL.

Talk about QUACK doctors.

[TornadoTN]

12. Remember This

This contradiction and lesson in hypocrisy is coming from the same man that claims you can get HIV from tears.