How about a sleazy attempt to garner sympathy for Silky after his gaffe about Christopher Reeve and his wife's gaffe anbout the Cheneys?
"sleazy attempt to garner sympathy"
This is my guess .. and it also give the kooky conspiracy goons over at DU another excuse to blame Bush.
That sounds plausible to me. I don't want anything bad to happen to them, but I got to say I am still pissed at them for how badly they have treated the Cheneys-- the Edwards are not good people.