Got this at work...
Christopher Reeve Message To Kerry???
Nothing appears to be above exploitation. John Kerry even dedicated a speech he delivered on Monday to the late actor Christopher Reeve. Kerry said he knew the "Superman" actor for about 15 years through family and dedication to the same causes, and said Reeve left him a long voice-mail on Saturday thanking him for campaigning on the possibilities of a cure for conditions like his.
It had been originally reported that Reeve died on Sunday after slipping into a coma on Thursday following complications from treatment for a bed sore. After John Kerry's speech, reports of Reeve's death were changed to remove the reference to Thursday in order to make it possible for Reeve to call John Kerry and leave a long message for him on his answering machine on Saturday night. Evidently, Kerry didn't know about the "coma" part until after the speech, but his well-oiled damage-control team was already on it. Now, a quick Google search and EVERY article I found said that Reeve suffered a cardiac arrest on Saturday, passed into a coma, and died Sunday. It's even on the freeper's very own Faux News website:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135149,00.htmlHowever, if you doa Google news search for "Christopher Reeve coma" odered by date (
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=christopher+reeve+coma&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d) , you get a whole bunch of articles labeled "Have you no shame, Senators?"
Any idea where these wingnuts are getting this idea? Sure seems like a typical Rovian trick to try and distract people....