It has been making the rounds on the internet so caveat internet-or.
To be fair the original poster probably developed a TNR-triggered parody deficit and couldn't recognized the difference between parody and the real-thing. This is often a problem readers have with Kinsley's writing any way.
On the other hand in a nation where the only national newspaper that is consistently truthful is the satirical "The Onion", one can understand how parody would sound like reality.
Jerry
On Sep 2, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
>
> > This is not from RR's diary. It was published as a joke/parody in The
> > New Republic[an] ...see
> >
> > My Lunch With Reagan
> > by Michael Kinsley
> > Post date 06.29.07 | Issue date 07.02.07
> >
> > On 9/2/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >> [a friend writes...]
> >>
> >> Reagan on Bush II (tragic, but funny)
> >>
> >> In case you haven't read yet the Ronald Reagan diaries, the following
> >> entry for May 17, 1986 includes the following:
> >>
> >> "A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne'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."
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