Why is Tiller's alleged killer doing press conferences?

Great question Gene Lyons!

Why is Tiller's alleged killer doing press conferences?

Listen instead to the people giving testimonials to the doctor: His family, his patients, his colleagues.
By Gene Lyons

June 11, 2009 | Since when do imprisoned terrorists get to hold press conferences? I speak of Scott Roeder, the accused assassin of Dr. George Tiller. Roeder's alleged crime was also a sacrilege: He gunned down the physician during Sunday worship services at Reformation Lutheran Church, where Tiller served as an usher.

A classic Midwestern lone demento, Roeder appears to envision himself as a soldier in an avenging army. They always do, don't they? Broke and alone, according to one of his ex-wives, Roeder ranted constantly against God's enemies, as defined by him. Police arresting him found explosives in his car, a 1993 Ford Taurus listed as his only asset.

Roeder phoned the AP from a Wichita jail cell to complain of poor treatment and to warn, "I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal."

Sheriff's deputies will surely keep a closer eye on him. As for the warning, all it probably means is that Roeder is familiar with fellow extremists venting in Internet chat rooms. The prospect of a federal investigation into possible accomplices may have damped their enthusiasm, although some get off on feeling persecuted.

Meanwhile, hundreds of mourners attended Tiller's funeral, where they heard him "eulogized as a loving father and friend, a regular guy, a lover of Elvis and old movies, of ice cream and axioms," according to Fred Mann in the Wichita Eagle. Tiller's son described his murder this way: "I believe that God decided, 'You have done everything I asked a person to do here on earth. Now I will show the world what a loving, compassionate, courageous, selfless man you are.' And so it happened."

To antiabortion absolutists who dubbed him "Tiller the killer," this must be incomprehensible. Fox News viewers regularly heard him described as a "mass murderer" by bully-boy commentator Bill O'Reilly. He depicted Tiller as a conscienceless profiteer who "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000."

Comparing Tiller to Hitler, Stalin and Osama bin Laden, O'Reilly argued that his unwillingness to turn over patient records to a crusading Kansas prosecutor made him an accomplice of pedophiles who impregnated children.

more: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/11/scott_roeder/

They are releasing statements from him as if he had any credibility whatsoever. Frankly, he's being made into an anti-Choice spokesperson, and all he had to do is murder someone in cold blood. This will no doubt encourage others who are thinking of following his lead to actually carry out their dastardly plans. Our media needs to be more responsible than this. It is offensive and insulting that this piece of shit is being allowed to spew his garbage over the public airwaves.

Diversions have worked well in the past, perhaps the corporations owning MSM want to keep using the tactic. If arsonists keep starting fires all over the landscape, firefighters can't get as much done on the big blazes.

where truth was paramount and propping up ideologues was verboten.
However, by the time this over, the msm coverage will prop up a couple more terrorists willing to kill for their cause and embolden others to just terrorize innocent women at will.
Another day on the airwaves...wee...here we go.:(

i don't know about morals - that word scares me

K & R

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people will be distracted on other issues, like prosecuting criminals, health care just to name a few.:shrug:

until California changes the laws. So I'm going to say this is pretty standard practice by the media. And frankly the general US population does like to watch these types of interviews.

because once selection starts, everyone they ask will have an opinion on Tiller and his interview comments since they are being broadcast everywhere....he could be trying to set it up so after convicted, he could argue that he didn't get a fair and impartial trial...just imo