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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Next Week On 60 Minutes [View all]hunter
(39,044 posts)What I saw was a confused old man who didn't know where the hell he was or what he was doing there.
They pushed Reagan behind the podium and it was lights, camera, action! A bit of the old acting skills flickered to life and he managed to say a few lines. Then he was gone.
Astonished I went home and turned on the television news. Had anyone seen what I had seen? Nope. All they showed was the clip, and ha, ha, everything is wonderful and wasn't it great the President was visiting!
The newspaper reporting was no different.
I began to doubt myself, thinking yeah, it must be exhausting for an old guy to travel around like that on Air Force One and limos.
As it turned out, what I witnessed was reality.
Not that it mattered. Even before Reagan began to lose his marbles he'd sold his soul to the devil and enthusiastically embraced his greatest acting role as a fascist meat puppet.