Re: Kerry and Anton LaVey

From: Joy McCann <jmmccann_at_sbcglobal.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:30:19 -0700

Remember: better the devil you know . . .

--J

On Oct 28, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Michael Marinacci wrote:

> KERRY may not have met LaVey, but *I* have:
>
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mikalm/devil.htm
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dne44" <dne_at_dslextreme.com>
> To: <OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:31 PM
> Subject: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] Kerry and Anton LaVey
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> > Did Kerry meet with the world's leading Satanist? Snopes.com says
> no,
> > but as Joy has pointed out, it has a liberal bias...
> >
> > http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/lavey.asp
> >
> > A Man of Wealth and Taste
> >
> >
> > Claim:   Photograph shows Senator John Kerry shaking hands with
> Anton
> > LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan.
> >
> > Status:   False.
> >
> > Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
> >
> >
> >
> > (Click to enlarge)
> >
> > PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF: Anton La Vey, high priest of
> the
> > Church of Satan, meets with noted Attorney John Kerry at CISPES
> > function.
> > 
> >
> > Origins:   Politics often joins some strange bedfellows, but it
> > doesn't get much stranger than this: Senator John Kerry of
> > Massachusetts posing with Anton Lavey, the self-proclaimed High
> > Priest of the Church of Satan.
> >
> > This one is easy to debunk even without knowing anything about the
> > origins of the photograph. Although a portion of the date in the
> > putative newspaper clipping is (deliberately) obscured, enough of it
> > shows to reveal that the article in question supposedly comes from
> an
> > edition of the San Francisco Chronicle published on a Sunday, July
> > 17, sometime in the 1980s. Only twice in the 1980s did July 17 fall
> > on a Sunday, in 1983 and 1988, and the 1983 date is ruled out
> because
> > the article refers to "congressman John Kerry," but Kerry wasn't
> > first elected to Congress until 1984. A search of the 17 July 1988
> > edition of the San Francisco Chronicle turns up no such article.
> >
> > This item is doubly debunkable because we do know something about
> the
> > origins of the photograph. It's a fake, a composite made from two
> > other images: one of John Kerry greeting clown Rami Salami in 1998,
> > and a picture of Anton LaVey posing with rocker Marilyn Manson in
> > 1994:
> >
> >
> >
> > Last updated:   28 October 2004
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Received on 2004-10-29 00:31:46

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