Yeah, just imagine the field day the MSM (and especially Keith Olbermann) would have. And in this case, rightly so!
So consider then what NY Times loon Bob Herbert wrote about Ted Kennedy, recently diagnosed with brain cancer:
This is a guy who has experienced every kind of horror, who went down in a plane, who had to fight back after Chappaquiddick, who has had two kids stricken with cancer, and on and on. So who knows?
Yep -- he had to "fight back," all right. "Fight back" to convince the public at large that he didn't needlessly leave behind a woman to drown because it would make him look bad.
What a "fighter."