Preying on victims

One of the best media columns is written weekdays by Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Always thoughtful, he presents ALL sides of the political spectrum as long as it is interesting. After all, who wants to read boring stuff?
This came from his Tuesday Media Notes Extra column on Tuesday, March 29, discussing an article in the New York Times.
"The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.
"'These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler's legal battle to keep Terri's estranged husband from removing the feeding tube from Terri,' says a description of the list on the Web site of the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo's father. 'These individuals are passionate about the way they value human life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of the word!'
"Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even predictable, if ghoulish."
This is getting very little play on America's conservative talk shows, almost all of which are hysterically slanted against the court action and ALL in favor of the Schindlers. One of the arguments demonizing Michael Schiavo is a question of life insurance benefits and trust money from a malpractice settlement.
Yet this seems to be just as slimy. Some groups wants to profit from tragedy and no one is openly damning this action.
Very hypocritical. But, truthfully, tell me something in the sad episode which has NOT been hypocritical ... on ALL sides.
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