Weekend at Pope Bernie's

Did anyone else out there catch the brief video clip of Pope John Paul George Ringo II waving from his hospital room window on the news last night? And if so, was anyone else convinced -- as I was -- that the man has officially shuffled off this mortal coil, and was, in fact, being handily manipulated by his handy Cardinals handling his head and his waving hands? His face looked like a rubber mask that someone turned first one way, then another, and his hands looked as if a really bad marionette puppeteer with a newly-broken string was trying to manipulate it without the audience suspecting. The speculation on CNN.com is that the few words he spoke were recorded prior to his appearance -- which would certainly make sense if he is, as I suspect, singing with the Choir Invisible at this time.

Am I the only one who thinks this is the case?