Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco jokes about Internet report of her untimely demise

Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco reprised an old Mark Twain line following a Facebook post with untimely news.

“Reports of my early demise are greatly exaggerated,” Blanco joked Thursday in a phone call to an Advocate reporter to dispel the Internet report.

“It’s the first time that the Internet has killed me,” she also joked.

One of Blanco's daughters provided a screen shot of a Facebook post on Tuesday that contained a photo of the former governor along with a notice that she had died. The woman's Facebook page identifies her as living in Crowley. The Facebook post was no longer on her page on Thursday.

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