There’s a hysterical quote running around the internets that was supposedly an excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s recently published diaries:
A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’re-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.
Unfortunately, it turns out the quote was a piece of Kinsley satire that someone mistakenly (or perhaps intentionally) reported as authentic, as becomes fairly obvious if you read the original column. Still, it definitely made me laugh when I saw it.
—andrew
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Nice catch that it wasn’t real. I read it on political wire, he played it as if it was real. And he’s since deleted it from his blog. Evil.
Nice win last night, by the way.
Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 10:27 am | Permalink
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