WP's Ford obituary writer died last January

[Cocoa]

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/youtube/longdead-reporter-writes-gerald-fords-obit-224582.php

Long-Dead Reporter Writes Gerald Ford's Obit

As Drudge so cruelly notes, Washington Post obituary writer J.Y. Smith died nearly a year before he reported on Gerald Ford’s tragic death in today’s paper. How did Joe Smith do it? Did he return from Beyond the Grave, possibly to help the ghost of James Brown in killing the 93-year-old ex-prez?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122700528.html

Gerald R. Ford, 93, Dies; Led in Watergate's Wake

By J.Y. Smith and Lou Cannon
Special to The Washington Post
Wednesday, December 27, 2006; 10:18 AM

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., 93, who became the 38th president of the United States as a result of some of the most extraordinary events in U.S. history and sought to restore the nation's confidence in the basic institutions of government, has died. His wife, Betty, reported the death in a statement last night.

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J.Y. Smith, a former obituary editor of The Washington Post, died in January.

[Ioo]

1. Many paper pre-write Obits for the famous..

but that is funny

[teenagebambam]

2. Be prepared

That's the boy scout motto, and Ford was a Boy Scout. I also know that the Singing Seargents have had the funeral music planned (for both Ford and Lady Bird Johnson) for about three years now.

[shain from kane]

3. Should be "failed to restore the nation's confidence in the basic institutions of government."

" ...sought to restore the nation's confidence in the basic institutions of government ..."

Equal justice under the law. I think it's carved into the Supreme Court building.