Much thanks for this one to Dean Ericksen, who, along with Jeff Clinton, constantly feed me excellent political, UFO/Grey, bizarre news, and other nuggets for All This Is That.
The photo is obviously from a Reagan inauguration. This quote by President Reagan is from his fairly recently published diaries, edited by Doug Brinkley and published by Harper Collins.
"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his n'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work." [From THE REAGAN DIARIES - entry dated May 17, 1986]---o0o---
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Is that for-real?
No, it's been debunked a few times: http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp
It IS for real. But I, alas, discovered this only after I published the piece. It IS for real in that Kinsley actually wrote this.
Unfortunately, I didn't look it up in the actual diaries (which have been sitting on my to read stack for six months).
And should I retract this or correct it. Absolutely not! In the spirit of All This Is That, this statement is absolutely real and verisimilitudinous, whether it happened or not!
David Rubenstein, co-founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, made similar comments about George W. Bush.
Rubenstein's remarks are very real however.
http://www.prorev.com/bushcarlyle.htm
Interestingly, even though Fark.com commentors point this out, thousands of them are still reading the piece...it was farked today.
Sometimes Snopes takes all the joy out of life! Tomorrow they'll prove John Edwards is a saint.
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