Yesterday I watching CNN for about an hour from 8am to 9am absorbing the coverage of the Schaivo business. The coverage was the typical, blanket ghoulish video that CNN has perfected with helicopters following the white van that carried Schiavo's body to the ME's office. That I have come to expect.

What I didn't expect was how skewed the language and the guests were in favor of the "Culture of Life" crowd. For one thing, they continually refer to the wishes of the family, as in the judge's decision went against the wishes of the family. Family has become such a loaded word in this country that it's inexcusable for CNN or anyone to editorialize that one group, the parents, represent the "family" while the other, Michael Schiavo, does not, especially since legally the opposite is true.

Then there are the guests. At one point Darren Kagan was talking to Jesse Jackson, phony publicity seeking Christian hypocrite and Tim LaHaye, author of the Christian Revelation wet dream books, Left Behind. Maybe the people at CNN thought that since Jesse is a Democrat and LaHaye is clearly a Republican, that they had some editorial balance. The problem is that both of these folks support the "family", as in Terri Schiavo's parents.

This is bad enough but when Kagan asked what lessons can be learned from this situation and Tim LaHaye responded about how the major lesson learned here is that people (all people) need to make peace with Jesus Christ before the end of their lives, she didn't say anything. I mean nothing. No response whatsoever. At very least she had the obligation to point out that not all viewers believe that.