The extremists on the right edge of the political map, shocked that the rest of the country disagrees with them, have resorted to attacking the methodology of the polls showing strong support for pulling Schiavo's feeding tube.
Mystery Pollster shoots them down.
But what's amazing to me is that one of their main arguments against these polls is that they ask about removing "life support". And since the words "life support" conjure images of respirators, the wording of the polls is biased.
What the -- ?
Legally (as Mystery Pollster notes) a feeding tube is considered life support.
But the law doesn't always track common sense. So let's see what common sense informs -- 1) Schiavo is kept alive by the feeding tube, 2) if it's removed, she will die, hence, 3) the feeding tube is life support.
Sheez. The lengths the American Taliban will go in order to rationalize their agenda...
Update: Link to Mystery Pollster has been fixed. Sorry about that.