‘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.’
No. No. Not at all. He was just the ill tempered failed drunk wanna be cowboy son of a wishy washy WASP party hack.
I’m just saying why would Ron Reagan even know W was alive, much less be dreading the moment he had to get him a job?
This could be totally true, I’m just naturally suspicious of anything that sounds too perfect to be true.
Considering the Diaries have been out for well over a month, maybe two, I’m with Lum. I find it hard to believe that this entry wouldn’t have surfaced sooner and been emailed to me five times by now.
I think Gary’s link then links back to the New Republic or some such. This reads like a snarky NR writer/editor making up up shit for a filler article. Taken out of context one might be able to think its a real quote.
But yeah, it would have hit like a bomb if it was a real quote.
A little googling turned up a Digg link to this, which had this note in the comments:
The paragraph in the article in The New Republic that immediately precedes this quote goes something like this:
“But I was more interested in the me angle, frankly. And it was a puzzle. What on earth could Reagan have written? I indulged my imagination, and my ego:”
