Reaganowned...

ha that is hilarious they should send this quote over to fox news since they love Reagan so much.

TFA (literally, this is the entire article):

"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]

I call shenanigans. That sounds nothing like Reagan, and it seems written with the reader in mind. Diaries almost never are.

But it's still funny.

Well, proof that Reagan had brains before the zombification process.
/grabs key of Sununu and popcorn.

Benevolent Misanthrope: TFA (literally, this is the entire article):

"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]

I call shenanigans. That sounds nothing like Reagan, and it seems written with the reader in mind. Diaries almost never are.

But it's still funny.

Funny yes, shenanigans definitely according to snopes.

Benevolent Misanthrope: I call shenanigans. That sounds nothing like Reagan

He never said (or wrote) that. It was written by Micheal Kinsley as a hit piece.

wyohome: Benevolent Misanthrope: I call shenanigans. That sounds nothing like Reagan

He never said (or wrote) that. It was written by Micheal Kinsley as a hit piece.

Bummer. It was so...truthy.

I'm sure Reagan would be just as proud of Bush as the "conservatives" currently are with their own track record of fiscal responsibility and sensible planning for the future of their country.

Damn, it was too good to be true.

If Reagan was alive today, I think he'd say, "Wow, our policies in the Middle East really backfired, but at least I don't have Alzheimer's."

Believe anything? Everything?

Reagan left the Democratic party because they had drifted so far away from his ideals. Why doesn't anything think that he would have the same opinion of the GOP. Their incessant channelling of him is ridiculous - their policies and last two administrations have gone VERY far afield from Reaganism.

bronyaur1: Reagan left the Democratic party because they had drifted so far away from his ideals. Why doesn't anything think that he would have the same opinion of the GOP. Their incessant channelling of him is ridiculous - their policies and last two administrations have gone VERY far afield from Reaganism.

Massive deregulation, dismantling and undermining public services, and meddling in South America and the Middle East don't seem like Reaganism to you?

i wish this were true, but it's been debunked many times.

FlashHarry: i wish this were true, but it's been debunked many times.

Yeah, I'll admit, I fell for it the first time around...fool me once...

BTW, did y'all know Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim?

Bloody William: bronyaur1: Reagan left the Democratic party because they had drifted so far away from his ideals. Why doesn't anything think that he would have the same opinion of the GOP. Their incessant channelling of him is ridiculous - their policies and last two administrations have gone VERY far afield from Reaganism.

Massive deregulation, dismantling and undermining public services, and meddling in South America and the Middle East don't seem like Reaganism to you?

My sense of the Bush Administration is that they are about INCREASING regulation of all phases of daily life. Their meddling abroad includes the massive unilateral invasion of at least one country. Our meddling during the 1980s was the result of the Cold War... and the policy was effective, unlike Bush's foreign policies. It seems difficult to compare sending a small force to Grenada, trying to negotiate with Iran, and annoying the Sandinistas to the invasion of Iraq.

Lionel Mandrake: FlashHarry: i wish this were true, but it's been debunked many times.

Yeah, I'll admit, I fell for it the first time around...fool me once...

BTW, did y'all know Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim?

Muslin? I thought he was Taffeta or at least Organdy.

Holy shiat this thread is gonna be awesome.

Total. farking. awesome.

bronyaur1: Reagan left the Democratic party because they had drifted so far away from his ideals. Why doesn't anything think that he would have the same opinion of the GOP. Their incessant channelling of him is ridiculous - their policies and last two administrations have gone VERY far afield from Reaganism.

This isn't very Reaganlike of you.

Tastes good. Ronald R. Reagan Good.

FunkOut: Lionel Mandrake: FlashHarry: i wish this were true, but it's been debunked many times.

Yeah, I'll admit, I fell for it the first time around...fool me once...

BTW, did y'all know Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim?

Muslin? I thought he was Taffeta or at least Organdy.

Change _{the bedsheets} you can believe in!

Snopes debunked it. You think if that was true it wouldn't have made the news a long time ago?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp (new window)

wyohome: Benevolent Misanthrope: I call shenanigans. That sounds nothing like Reagan

He never said (or wrote) that. It was written by Micheal Kinsley as a hit piece.

It wasn't really even a "hit piece." It was just some bit of sorta-comedy he cooked up when he heard he was mentioned in a book. Granted, it wasn't particularly nice to certain people.

Anyway, yeah. Fake.

This thread isn't delivering the requisite amount of awesome.

slobarnuts: This thread isn't delivering the requisite amount of awesome.

Give it time. I'm sure by noon tomorrow when more people are paying attention it will have gotten quite awesome.

slobarnuts: This thread isn't delivering the requisite amount of awesome.

Lies debunked months ago probably shouldn't. Feel free to inject your very own awesome, if you wish.

bronyaur1: Our meddling during the 1980s was the result of the Cold War... and the policy was effective, unlike Bush's foreign policies. It seems difficult to compare sending a small force to Grenada, trying to negotiate with Iran, and annoying the Sandinistas to the invasion of Iraq.

ROFL. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Damn it, I wished this was true. Ah, well, thanks Snopes.

spamdog: ROFL. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Good comeback. I like the way you chose to specifically address his accusations with cold, hard facts. That was awesome.

Lionel Mandrake: Good comeback. I like the way you chose to specifically address his accusations with cold, hard facts. That was awesome.

I don't need to put dogshiat under a microscope to conclude it's dogshiat.

spamdog: I don't need to put dogshiat under a microscope to conclude it's dogshiat.

I think it's great that you compare complicated foreign relations with dogshiat.

Because they are exactly the same after all.

Why does Reagan hate America?

thanks for training bin Laden there Reagan.
That didn't come back to bite us on the ass did it?
and that arms for hostages deal with Iran ,that was awesome.
and the drug smuggling in Central America was brilliant.
You helped bring cocaine to the masses baby.
Before you it was just a drug for the rich.

dangelder: Tastes good. Ronald R. W. Reagan Good.


FTFY.

Kind of amusing, since he was never a smoker.

/Then again, plenty of celebrities endorse products they don't use.
//Michael Jordan probably doesn't eat Wheaties for breakfast.

Lionel Mandrake, I have it on excellent authority that your step-mom blows little boys in an out-of-the-way jambalaya shack near Mobile, Alabama.

Lionel Mandrake: I think it's great that you compare complicated foreign relations with dogshiat.

"a small force to Grenada", "annoying the Sandinistas" gimme a break. Apologism for Reagan is all that is.

The_Sponge: Kind of amusing, since he was never a smoker.

True. He just shilled for them because he was a CELEBRITY.



"I also want to assure you that my Administration will end what has become an increasingly antagonistic relationship between the Federal government and the tobacco industry. The Carter Administration has all too often singled out the tobacco industry for selective criticism and damaging restrictions. ... I can guarantee that my own Cabinet members will be far too busy with substantive matters to waste their time proselytizing against the dangers of cigarette smoking,"

dangelder: Lionel Mandrake, I have it on excellent authority that your step-mom blows little boys in an out-of-the-way jambalaya shack near Mobile, Alabama.

Spread the word, brother...I get 50% of the cut.

Hobodeluxe: thanks for training bin Laden there Reagan.
That didn't come back to bite us on the ass did it?
and that arms for hostages deal with Iran ,that was awesome.
and the drug smuggling in Central America was brilliant.
You helped bring cocaine to the masses baby.
Before you it was just a drug for the rich.

No he didnt create obama, Iran was a fark up, and I didnt realize that reagan was president during the 70s when coke was at its highest use with cocaine spoons and glass tables in clubs for patrons use?

Also gotta love this post from the author after finding out its fake after putting up the article:

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!

Right, sounds like more left bullshiat just like ann coulter, the difference is her shiat doesnt get green lit on fark. The mods really suck on fark.

This has gotta be like, the 10th time this has been posted on fark

Hobodeluxe: thanks for training bin Laden there Reagan.
That didn't come back to bite us on the ass did it?
and that arms for hostages deal with Iran ,that was awesome.
and the drug smuggling in Central America was brilliant.
You helped bring cocaine to the masses baby.
Before you it was just a drug for the rich.


Yeesh.

Let me guess....the next thing you're going to tell us is that he's responsible for AIDS.

What's so amusing about this is how believable the quote is. That's what pisses off followers of George 'he's-not-stupid-he-just-doesn't-know-how-to-speak' Bush.

Yes, I know the quote is fake, but it's just so damn believable!

/Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

steamingpile: No he didnt create obama, Iran was a fark up, and I didnt realize that reagan was president during the 70s when coke was at its highest use with cocaine spoons and glass tables in clubs for patrons use?

Reagan brought it out from the Studio 54 set and made it more affordable for the urban ghettos. It's highest use is in it's crack form. The deals made with the drug runners during the Reagan administration allowed them to use their smuggling planes to funnel supplies to the Contras and they used drug money to finance the arms purchases. Thus allowing a channel for them to bring mass quantities into the country almost free from any threat of being caught. And if I had to bet it's still going on today. The only time you hear of busts is when someone tries to cut in on their gig. There's just too damned much money for them (the CIA) to not get in on it. It's why Afghanistan was producing record crops of poppies after the Talbian had pretty much shut it down.

CIA and drug trafficking ^{(^)}

The_Sponge: Let me guess....the next thing you're going to tell us is that he's responsible for AIDS.

Of course not. That would be as silly as considering Oliver North a hero and, oh, I don't know, giving him air time on a major network.

No one would ever be so stupid, would they?

The_Sponge: Let me guess....the next thing you're going to tell us is that he's responsible for AIDS.

Funny you should say that because he is responsible for us delaying action on the epidemic ^{(^)}. At first it was only the gays and the druggies getting it so it was OK.

I don't understand how anyone reads that and thinks Reagan wrote it. The only way that could be more obviously fake is if they'd put "OMGLOLZ!!1!" at the end.

outatime: I don't understand how anyone reads that and thinks Reagan wrote it. The only way that could be more obviously fake is if they'd put "OMGLOLZ!!1!" at the end.

Too bad, though, 'cause it would be really farking funny if it were true.

outatime: I don't understand how anyone reads that and thinks Reagan wrote it. The only way that could be more obviously fake is if they'd put "OMGLOLZ!!1!" at the end.

Yeah, well, I don't know how people can simultaneously complain about Obama's Pastor and still suspect him of being a Muslim...but they do, don't they?

Stupidity and cognitive dissonance are non-partisan afflictions...

Sorry subby, -1, it's neither ironic nor true.