Howard heart-attack email carries virus - Security - Technology - theage.com.au
Howard heart-attack email carries virus - Security - Technology - theage.com.au - I got two of these emails yeterday afternoon, and I must admit it made my heart skip a beat when I saw it. I wasn’t taken in enough to click on the link in the email, but it did make me do a scan of other news sites and check the TV news when I got home for any other reports of the Prime Minister’s demise.
Allow the conspiracy theorist in me to come out for a minute. Wouldn’t this sort of hoax email be a great ploy for the Australian Labor Party? The very fact that a John Howard heart attack is a believable story is a reminder to the electorate that the man is getting on in years. I believe they’ve had to turn up the PA at Parliament to enable Howard to hear properly, since his deafness is worsening. I don’t seriously think for a second that the ALP would be involved in this sort of thing, but any kind of reminders of Howard’s age will only serve to make Kevin Rudd, labor’s more youthful Howard clone, seem more comparatively appealing.
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