Originally Posted - November 27, 2006

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"You think I don't even mean a single word I say".

That's a line from the hit song "Words" by the Bee Gees.

There's a lot of people that don't believe a word that Michael Schiavo says.

And with good cause.

It's to the point where it would be news if he told the truth.

His latest fiction is his posting at the Daily Kos blog in which he claimed that he attended an election-eve rally with Bill Clinton in Florida.

Of course he didn't say "President" Bill Clinton so maybe he did attend such a rally which someone named Bill Clinton, but it wasn't the former president.

On Nov. 9, in a blog which is claimed to be written by Michael Schiavo (actually it's more likely "consultant" Derek "Fig" Newton) someone claiming to be Schiavo states "Also, maybe tomorrow I'll post about my election-eve rally with Bill Clinton in Florida". http://www.dailykos.com/user/Michael%20Schiavo

That was only a maybe. He never did, probably because President Clinton wasn't in Florida on election eve and we're relatively secure in saying that President Clinton didn't spend any time with Michael Schiavo in Florida on election-eve, at least not this past one.

Schiavo also claimed victory in on Election Day.

More words, but not exactly the truth.

In actuality, he lost 60% of the races into which he intruded. He lost 11 of the 19 contests in which he endorsed candidates.

About the only thing that Michael Schiavo and Clinton share is word games. Seems that both of them have a problem with definitions of words concerning sexual relationships.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/071006WordGames.html

Bill Clinton was in New York on election eve. In fact, he was in Warren County, appearing at the Warren County Airport the afternoon of election eve, stumping for Democratic Congressional candidate Kirsten Gillibrand who, the next day, defeated incumbent John Sweeney.

More than a 1,000 people turned out at the airport to hear Clinton speak at the rally so it's pretty definite that he was in New York for election eve and Election Day as his wife, Hillary was also on the ballot, seeking and gaining re-election to the U.S. Senate.

On Election Day, the former president and Hillary were shown voting in Chappaqua where they reside. Was Clinton in Florida at some point?

Well, yes, he appeared in an African-American neighborhood in Miami on Saturday, Nov. 4, not quite election eve as Schiavo says. But even with Clinton stopping by, Schiavo's candidate, Jim Davis was resoundingly defeated.

So Clinton was in Florida at one point, not election eve as Schiavo says but rather three days previous.

But don't forget, Schiavo has a problem with days and times. Bad memory, you know. Virtually every time he tells the story surrounding the mysterious collapse of his wife, Terri Schiavo, it changes. During the medical malpractice trial that followed her collapse, Schiavo testified that he found her at 5 a.m.. Later in a 2003 television interview with CNN's Larry King, he said he found Terri at 4:30 a.m.. He told the Pinellas County medical examiner that the time of Terri's collapse was approximately 5 a.m.

After Gov. Jeb Bush asked for an investigation into the 40-70 minute gap between the time Schiavo says he found her and the time he called 911 for help at 5:40 a.m., he changed his story yet again. After the autopsy, in his book, "Terri: The Truth" which is supposed to be absolutely the truth, he changed the time again, stating in the book it was 5:30 a.m. when he found her in the hallway and that he called 911 "less than a minute after finding Terri on the floor".

So. We know that Schiavo is telling a story about being with Bill Clinton in Florida on election eve and we know Schiavo's telling a story about Terri didn't have an eating disorder.

The odds seem pretty good too that he's telling a story about what happened the night of Feb. 25, 1990, the night that Terri Schiavo mysteriously sustained brain damage. 11-27-06

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