Cluth Attacks Henthoff - In Turn Is Drubbed By SmarterCop

Nat Henthoff writing in the Village Voice wrote Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder in which he, as only Henthoff can at times, demolishes the left's arguments regarding the killing of Terri Schiavo. Henthoff ends with: "And keep in mind from the Ralph Nader-Wesley Smith report:

"The courts . . . have [also] ordered that no attempts be made to provide her water or food by mouth. Terri swallows her own saliva. Spoon feeding is not medical treatment. This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, they have ordered her to be made dead."

In this country, even condemned serial killers are not executed in this way."

Then, along comes Jack Cluth writing in Open Source Politics a rather self-serving treatise bashing Henthoff and taking him to task. Cluth could justifiably be described as being "Err on the side of taking life of the disabled whenever you get the opportunity" side. Cluth writes:

"Gee, thank [sic], Nat; I can hardly wait to be blessed with another of your paper-thin arguments that more closely resemble Swiss cheese for all of the holes than a coherent ideological whole. If you can come back with something different and better constructed than this sorry excuse for a case, I'm listening. Otherwise, you're wasting your time and (more importantly) mine. For someone who has such an impressive reputation as an ideologue and an intellectual, you've sure managed to put together one sorry-@$$ argument here." (Emphasis added by GMR)

At any rate, SmarterCop took the "time" from his schedule to not only take Cluth to task, but to demolish his arguments point by point by point and does it in a way that if there were any justice in this universe, Cluth would be lying on the floor, battered, bruised and bleeding (figuratively speaking of course). Way to go SmarterCop!