There's a lesson here

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

If reports are true, it appears that Haleigh Poutre is, in fact, improving. Note here the difference between this case and the Terri Schiavo case: Diagnosis from the Senate Floor aside, Schiavo wasn't.

Which is why the irony here for the right-wing is so compelling. Malkin:

Michael e-mailed me that many talk show hosts don't want to discuss the story:

I fear it's the post-Schiavo syndrome.

I think Michael is right, and that the post-Schiavo syndrome is affecting more than just talk radio. Few on either the left or right--in politics, in the blogosphere, in the MSM punditocracy--want to grapple with the moral, legal, and medical implications of this wrenching case. And as I noted before, the bleeding hearts in Hollywood--so quick to leap to the defense of every last Death Row convict--are AWOL. There's already a jaded and shockingly callous exasperation about Haleigh's case epitomized by the title and comments at John Cole's blog: "Dear God, not again."

After which Malkin goes on to offer a sincere mea culpa for being such an integral part of the Schiavo media circus - nay, frenzy - which, she (or he) acknowledges, was so overwhelming that it would be impossible to blame the American public if they aren't interested in reliving it.




Just kidding.