Media Bias in Terri Schiavo Case at Extreme Levels in AP, Reuters Reports

And how! Not a word about Michael Schiavo deliberately denying therapy, nor about his altering a patient's chart and threatening the institution with lawsuits if they didn't let him do it. Not a word about Terri's actual improvements. And definitely not a word about the allegations involving insulin shock, nor about how he called Terri a loose woman, kept wondering when she was going to die, and talking about how rich he was going to be. (Of course, he doesn't talk about riches now, not only because it looks bad, but also because he's drained the money by now, in legal fees.)

Most disturbing of all is having to listen to my fellow citizens say that she ought to die--until I tell them about the fingermarks on the throat, and about Jodi Centonze and her role in Michael Schiavo's life.

I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I have never suggested, nor have I grounds even to suspect, that Jodi Centonze has played any active role in aggravating Terri Schindler Schiavo's condition. As far as I can see, Jodi Centonze is nothing more than Michael's "Sweet Patootie"--whom he kept under wraps, by the way. I doubt that she has the slightest concept of the risks she is taking just by being associated with the kind of man who could so callously and deliberately bring a woman ever closer to death, for any reason. I cannot comprehend what could be going through her mind.

But if she hasn't thought about how what happened to Terri could happen to her someday, unless Florida changes that barbaric law, then she'd better start. And she ought to start thinking about how she is his partner in adultery--which, though not a crime, is still a sin, and a highly specific one. God handed down the Seventh Commandment for a reason, after all. How will she feel if he decides to run around on her? Does an adulterer ever "settle down" with the particular squeeze with whom he ran out on his wife? I doubt it. After all, there's plenty more where she came from.

Add attempted murder, and the mix becomes explosive. And that is what Jodi Centonze really ought to start thinking about--before she feels his hands around her throat.