Friday, August 30, 2024

Brent Regan used a bogus and ignorant quote

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Gem State Patriot News blog on August 28, 2024 Brent Regan opened a post titled Ignorant, Brainwashed, or Lying by claiming Ronald Reagan had said:

 

“The trouble with our Liberal friends is that they know so much that isn’t so.”

 

But that’s an ignorant paraphrase. When I looked at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum I found his A Time for Choosing Speech, October 27, 1964 where paragraph 22 instead says:

 

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

 

A portrait of Reagan by Michael Del Priore came from here at Wikimedia Commons.

 


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