From Leilla Matsui in Dissident Voice :
The feeding tube frenzy swirling around “America's Most Wanted Desperate Housewife,” Terri Schiavo, just goes to show how rightwing ideologues only spare their compassion for those who can't raise their voices and speak out against these unctuous vultures who smother them in false piety i.e.: aborted fetuses, murdered moppets, coma victims and dead Jesus. (Clearly, the Mel Gibson meat puppet version of Christ does a better job promoting the Republican agenda than the living, breathing, political agitator who scorned the wealthy and believed in taxes.)
Matui's article is terrific. I'll just add the weird connection with the Passion of the Christ. Apparently, mourners are talking about the Passion of Terri Schiavo, figuring her as a dying martyr as an innocent suffering before cruel judges, before contemporary Herods and Pilates. The attacks on her husband have gotten worse--from insinuations on tv that he murdered her to Jeb Bush's reference to new evidence that she might have been abused. So we have an ever intensified image of Terri Schiavo, persecuted innocent, embodying the sins of her husband and the law.
Sounds like a great essay, but the link's not working.
Posted by: djw | March 31, 2005 at 03:10 PM
that's weird: here is the link; I'll see if I can fix the one in the post.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar05/Matsui0325.htm
Posted by: Jodi | March 31, 2005 at 04:25 PM