Richard Gere dropped the quote of the week in response to an autograph request from two teens in wheelchairs at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington.
The teenagers, Brian and Kailyn Glassmacher suffer from a form of MS known as Glassmacher syndrome. TKID4 can envision the diagnosis now. I'm guessing it was first named by a doctor who didn't know what the hell he was doing.
Dr. X: "You've got a rare form of MS. "
Glassmacher kids: "Really...what's it called."
Dr. X: "Ummm....ahhhhh...Gla....zzzz....aaa....mmmaaaaa......kkkkk....."
Glassmacher kids: "Glassmacher??"
Dr. X: "Uh...yeah...sure....Glassmacher, quite a coincidence, huh?"
Glassmacher: "Geez, we never knew we had a disease named after us."
Dr. X: "Strange indeed, the planets seemed to have aligned for you two. Now about those wonder twin powers..."
So Gere in response to an autograph request from these two wheelchair bound kids allegedly said, "Maybe later, I'm hard of hearing and I have a bad hip. We all have problems."
In fairness to the Officer and Gentleman that he is, Gere later fulfilled the request when he was cornered by one of wheelchaired pair and opted to sign rather than hurdle over the equipment with that bum leg of his.
Personally, TKID4 thinks this story smells of hoax. There have been several media dupes lately, including the kidnapped bride, the treasure buried in the back yard, and the woman who threw her newborn out of a moving car. This Gere-story sounds similar. Another lemon passed on to the ever-vigilant press corp. The good news is this story will serve to run interference over the fact that the U.S. Government has been systematically testing dangerous AIDS drugs on unwitting/unknowing foster children. As if these kids don't have enough trouble, now Uncle Sam is shooting them up with drug cocktails in some sort of subhuman lab rat program.
And speaking of the press, Joe Scarborough recently berated Governor Arnold Swarzenneggar for remarks he made on the Howard Stern show last week. The Governor announced on the show that he was going to destroy the moon so that women would not have to suffer menstrual cycles anymore. Problem is, that was a fake-Arnold calling into the show. Everyone knew that but Mr. Scarborough apparently.
