Christopher Reeve was not a Republican

This talking point is starting to rear its head. Thanks to DUer Melinda for finding this:

http://www.usaweekend.com/00_issues/000813/000813whosnews_reeve.html

What or who turned you on to politics?

Since my earliest years of recollection, at 7, 8, 9, I became interested in politics because of my father Franklin Reeve, who has always been extremely politically active. Even though he came from a wealthy family, after graduation from Princeton and getting a Ph.D. at Columbia, he joined the labor movement and became a communist and traveled frequently to Russia. He's somebody who has always seen things, in political terms, very far to the left. But growing up, I remember there were always very impassioned political discussions at the table, and friends of his included Senator Patrick Moynihan and various intellectuals from all over the country and from abroad.

Are you Republican or Democrat?

I lean much more toward being a Democrat, although I find that on a day-to-day basis, depending on the issue, I simply turn to the representative who can be the most helpful. For example, on some insurance issues and some disabilities issues, since my injury, I've been working with Republicans such as Congressman Porter and Senator Specter from Pennsylvania, who is on the Appropriations Committee. In those terms, I'm issue driven rather than controlled by party affiliation.

I didn't think I could possibly find another reason to loathe and despise those people.

But I just did. :grr:

...making certain everyone knows that Reeve is now ROASTING IN HELL because he didn't practice their brand of Christianity and supported stem cell research.

They've had to shut down a half-dozen Reeve topics over there because this meme keeps cropping up.

in a wheel chair? Do they know how they must be insulting him?

He's made hundreds of thousands of dollars of of those wackjobs.

I doubt he gives a fuck what they say, as long as the checks keep coming in.

While we are sending our prayers they are trying to claim that Kerry is using his death for political gain. Just when you think these bastards have sunk to their lowest form they prove just how sick they truly are.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241551/posts

Christopher Reeves is dead (Will Kerry sink to a new low)
Drudge report ^


Posted on 10/11/2004 6:41:00 AM PDT by Patriot814


It's sad that Christopher Reeves is dead, but with Kerry mentioning him in Fridays debate, brings me to a question. Will Kerry sink to a new low and use Cristopher Reeve's death for political gain? I think so, him and the deocrats did that with Reagans death, having Ronald Reagan Jr. speak at the dnc, pointed out in the debate Nancy Reagan was in favor of it. He's used Ronald Reagan before, luckily Bush has pointed out how Kerry's called Reagan's years eight years of darkness. If he does I hope everyone sees through it.

...depending on the issue, I simply turn to the representative who can be the most helpful.

...in those terms, I'm issue driven rather than controlled by party affiliation.


It's sick that the man hasn't been gone for a day, and they're already dragging him into things.

This is truly sad. :(

knew he was an activist Democrat? He made no bones about it. I remember him speaking at the Democratic Convention in 1996.

Even if it was an appropriate time to bring politics into this, does it really matter whether or not he was a D or R? Everyone knows that he was an outspoken Bush critic.

Damn these people are sick.

Gloria's post today that has Christopher "bashing bush"..

"One of Chris Reeve's last interviews-Bashes Bush /BBC--link to

Edited on Mon Oct-11-04 12:27 PM by Gloria
the repeat World Service broadcast on today's "Analysis" program. It originally aired on "The Interveiw".) This is really worth listening to...in the full interview he criticized Bush and reveals some of his recent health crises. It was aired only a few weeks ago and I was shocked to learn how ill he had been over the past year when I heard the original via shortwave...."



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2476898



"In one of his last ever interviews, the American actor, Christopher Reeve, who died at the weekend, talked to Owen Bennett-Jones on BBC World Service's "The Interview" programme."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/analysis.shtml

That 1996 speech at the Democratic National Convention should be a clue . . .

claiming that they heard it from someone who heard it from someone, etc.

If you're seen talking to one, you probably are one.

Does the fact that these people don't understand he left a message with Kerry saturday not make them understand they were friends?

...usually such facts like you've pointed out do little to deter it.

I personally have not seen the "Reeve is a republican" posts, but I do not doubt they have been posted.

... or 2000.

The whole story Olbermann did moved me to tears. It was very touching.

Olbermann said they had a hard time getting one of Reeve's friends to come on because they were all so distraught. Richard Belzer was brave, and I'm sure the thought of how courageous Reeve was inspired him.

He suggested that Kerry might have been making that up when he called Chris his friend in debate2. He said that he Googled both names and could come up with nothing.

What was the clown looking for anyway, a tell-all book on the subject? :shrug:

Sen. Kerry for President?

Kerry does not have to say a word and I hope he doesn't, but there was a lovely tribute to Christopher Reeve on 20/20 tonight and a good bit was made of his support of stem cell research. I think that, with some voters, relating an issue to someone they admire makes the issue come to life. You couldn't look at that man tonight and not have great compassion for him and his cause!

People Weekly, June 12, 1995
(snip)
A founding member of the Creative Coalition--an advocacy
group of artists,including Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon, whose concerns run from homelessness to the environment--Reeve helped Vice President Al Gore clean up a beach in New Jersey in 1993 and traveled to Chile in 1987 to speak on behalf of writers jailed for their political beliefs. Last February, Reeve testified before a Senate committee, arguing against a Republican proposal to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2478570

There's an article in Playgirl from 1982. This is what Christopher Reeve said in it:

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/greatsleep/1023/sp-...

He says:

"The negative landscape, one we are really in danger of developing, is a landscape for rich people that leaves aside poor people, who are already being wiped out by Reagan...

I think Reagan is absolutely raping poor people in this country. He's frightening. His basic policy as I understand it is to give money back to big business so that they can reinvest it and it will filter down. The amount of time that that takes is something I don't think he understands at all. Not to mention the damage he's doing by the defense buildup. He's got his priorities totally screwed up as to what this country needs and wants. Cost overruns for military band uniforms exceed the arts budget! I think that's true. Certainly the cost of half a submarine is more than the entire arts budget.

I just don't think Reagan knows what he's doing. I don't think he has a clue. He's provoking the Russians in a terrifying way. It seems to come for some sort of misplaced pioneer spirit. You know, "By God, we're gonna make it across the Cumberland Gap." What Reagan seems to dig into is this thing of believing in himself no matter what his critics say, which I think is a particularly American trait."