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Either Wonkette or John McCain Has Good Taste In Reading

Quoting John McCain at an American Society of Magazine Editors conference:

On partisanship, McCain waxed nostalgic for the days when "Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan would fight all day and then he'd come down and it'd be two Irishmen telling corny jokes over drinks...We need more of that today."

Compare and contrast:

Reagan and Tip O'Neill scrapped like tigers during the day, but after 5:00 P.M., they were two Irishmen topping each other with jokes. [Eyewitness to Power, David Gergen, p.191.]

Fighting during the day? "Two Irishmen"? Telling "jokes"? Did McCain (or Wonkette) plagiarize? Am I crazy (always a valid option) or is this a Neil Kinnock moment?

Posted by Terry McMahon on October 17, 2005 4:21 PM |

Comments

I first read this in "Man of the House" - Tip O'Neill's biography. I don't think its plagerism to talk about something that is common knowledge in the same basic terms. I often use this story to make the same point among my friends.

Posted by: Alan | October 19, 2005 2:36 PM

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