Is Hugo Chavez dead?

[HEyHEY]

I just got into work and in the newsroom there is a note "Hugo Chavez is dead, he was shot 700 times, they have no suspects."

I don't see anything on the wire, and I watched BBC world this morning with no mention. I see no threads here either, is this just a joke?

[LiberalVoice]

1. Probably. nt

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

2. 700 times, 700 club

i think its a joke

[RevolutionStartsNow]

3. "Shot 700 times"

as in the 700 Club. Get it?

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6. haha, yeah, now I get it

Duh!

Usually a note like that is true, so I guess the shock of the whole thing outweighed the joke!

[Ian David]

7. I was thinking the same thing. 700 times.

Pat Robertson shot 666 times?

[blm]

4. Not in newsroom I access.

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[globalvillage]

5. Sounds like it

700 times. 700 club. no suspects.
Kinda sick. I'd take it down.

[whistle]

8. There is a pattern here for Pat Robertson's comments....

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Robertson often makes comments that many find outrageous.

From a 1992 fund-raising letter:

The "feminist agenda" is a "socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

On "The 700 Club" two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:

Robertson's guest, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, suggested that "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America" helped cause the attacks.

"I totally concur," Robertson replied.

Both men later apologized.

Oct. 13, 2003:

Robertson, after reading a book on the State Department: "If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom (the area of Washington where the department's office is), I think that's the answer. I mean, you get through this, and you say, `We've got to blow that thing up.' "

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<link> http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/television/12459282.htm


...one day one of his inflammatory statements just might be followed up upon by one of the 700 Club true believers...IMHO.

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9. That would be about 61 pounds of bullets

I agree with the posters above -- it's a joke re: 700 Club.