Freeper email about Christopher Reeve circulating

[hobbes159]

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.html

However, 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....

[sui generis]

1. isn't it funny that the party that the party of "morality"

won't hesitate to lie, cheat or steal to win this election, and still claim to be holier than thou or me.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Class Acts, Every One!

It's not (merely) Rovian. It's the nature of the hateful political fanatic.

--bkl

[Logansquare]

3. This is too well-written to be average freeper product

Someone from RNC or one of the winged monkey "think" tanks penned that.

[sui generis]

4. hah! I have an idea

we could make up some of these ourselves.

I heard that the Bush administration had Christopher Reeve assassinated for his views on stem cell research. You know, Christopher Reeve had bedsores almost immediately after his accident and they didn't kill him then when he was much weaker. Doesn't anyone find the timing of his death slightly suspicious? Maybe the Robe knew about the speech and had him killed to make Kerry look like a fool.

(maniacal laughter)

:tinfoilhat:

[luaneryder]

5. A new low. Every day

they sink to another new low. Disgusting pigs:puke:

[loveable liberal]

6. it means that c. reeve wanted to die so that little stem cells could...

become children. I'd never thought I'd say this but I'm afraid for my childrens future. They are going to have it tough growing up in a world where people dont think things through. I've often wondered what would happen if Liberals formed a bond and all at once decided to do nothing. And I mean nothing. No DU no air america, no one gave an opposing viewpoint. How long would it be before the fu**-head fright wing began to eat their own. Im betting it wouldnt take long.

[hobbes159]

7. Found the source of the quote, anyway

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40914

WorldNetDaily -- some guy called Hal Lindsey. For proof, he sites a post on Free Republic. Go figure.