The LA Times Sinks Even Lower

The LA Times is up to its usual blind and biased tricks, this time dredging up the old family tragedy in Tom DeLay's past, only to make false and inflammatory comparisons to the plight of Terri Schiavo.

DeLay's father was injured in a freak accident on the family's place in Texas, and the family decided to not pursue heroic measures to prolong his life. The LAT sums up the similarities between the DeLay and Schiavo cases:

There were also these similarities: Both stricken patients were severely brain-damaged. Both were incapable of surviving without medical assistance. Both were said to have expressed a desire to be spared from being kept alive by artificial means. And neither of them had a living will.

Of course that's not true. DeLay needed assistance breathing, and would have to be moved to a kidney dialysis machine to survive as his kidneys were failing. Terri just needs food and water.

It's a new low for the LAT, exploiting the sad tragedy now playing to an excruciatingly slow close in Florida to get a barb or two into the Majority Leader. It shows the amorality and lack of boundaries these poor excuses for journalists live by.

Michelle Malkin points out that the DeLay tragedy appears to have not been covered previously, at least recently. That raises an interesting question: How did the LAT get this story? Perhaps another of those famous disgruntled Texas Democrats, the same folks who gave us Rathergate, are to blame. If so, they had no need to worry -- they were certain to find a gung-ho, bias-blinded reporter ready to jump on their story.

She also points out:

Unlike the Schiavo case, there was a family consensus among the DeLays and no dispute over what the father would have wanted. Moreover, DeLay was not the primary decision-maker in the family's choice to withhold heroic treatment. That role fell to his mother and another brother and sister.