Posted on 10/15/2004 5:51:44 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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.
A blogger on Free Republic provided one example of the ''before and after'' media manipulation that kept John Kerry from having another ''Christmas in Cambodia'' moment like the ones that keep coming up every time he tries to exploit the dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at chronwatch.com ...
See # 39 for a link.
CNN originally posted the Thursday part, a news station in Ohio (I think) also reported "Thursday". This was well hashed out on a previous thread.
My opinion Thursday, Saturday, Who cares??? Reeves went into a coma at the Latest on Saturday, and that's when Kerry said he got the call.
Which begs the question: Does a person, who is so severely ill have the ability or inclination to call a political candidate when death is so close at hand?
No brainer here, the answer is it does not pass the smell test, common sense test... NO WAY!
One thing for sure....Christopher Reeves was in a Coma on Saturday.
This is John Kerry's statement:
Kerry says, "I was really blown away, because on Saturday, after the debate, I picked up my cell phone and I had a wonderful long message from Chris, who called me to thank me for talking about the possibilities of a cure."
http://www.wmtw.com/Global/story.asp?S=2417758&nav=7k6rRtNS
One of the screen images states that he slipped into a coma on Thursday.
Check post 46 ...now it says Thursday.
I saved a screen shot to my documents. Can anyone help me get it from my docs to the web? I have no idea how to do this.
bttt
I'm not seeing any stories AT ALL that mention Thursday. This includes China and the UK. Either the original mention of Thursday was just an "oops", or Christopher Reeve's publicist is the one changing the days; he's the one all the stories quote for the Saturday date.
"Bosco"
Check this link, look for Mattdono's post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1242521/posts?q=1&&page=201
Double screen shot of the report from two different days, the Thursday is edited out of the second report with no mention of the fact that it is an edited report. Look at who owns the TV station on whose web site this was posted.
The New York Times Broadcast Co.
Yes, but does it pass the Global Test?
FGS
Still, Kerry will just say that he is in the habit of checking his cell phone only once a week for messages.
Right!
Kerry has been getting away with this sort of thing his entire life.
Thanks for the link, I had not seen the 2 conflicting images before.
I ran across it this morning. I'm starting to become numb to all the things the MSM does to support their guy.
I told someone on another thread that Senator Kerry's place in History will be right up there with Benedict Arnold and Tokyo Rose.
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