Discussion: Ronald Reagan Library Curator Disputes Scott Walker's Bible Story

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“Torres also said in the email that Walker’s assertion that he was the first person to touch the Bible since Ronald Reagan was untrue.”

What does Torres know? Surely she can not think that conservators and staff members are considered people in the Reagan Library. You need to be anointed first!

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Walker comes straight from the Bill O’Reilly school of storytelling.

Interesting he was the only one who ever asked. It’s creepy. The curator made a huge mistake. There will now be a parade of wingnuts begging to handle this “relic” or other ones.

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he should’ve tried reading it and actually learning something…

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It’s a beautiful image. God writes the Bible, and imbues it with a magical power which is unleashed when St. Ronaldus touches it, much like when King Arthur pulls out the Sword of the Stone. At that moment there’s a glow when the clouds part and God looks down and gives his benediction with a single beam of light illuminating the scene, and heavenly choirs are heard. Years later, the same scene occurs with St./Gov. Walker touched the Bible, except this time, St. Ronaldus’ face is up there next to God’s.

It could have happened.

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So? Walker is a lying little creep. Hey, he’s RepubliCon.

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OK, now that Ronny has been beatified, I guess his remains can perform miracles. Start lining up, baggers!!

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Ha ha ha ha …Just what the heck is it that every conservative and his mother want’s to be connected to St. Ronnie? I lived through those years and I don’t get it, selling arms to the contras, government cheese, just say no, I wonder did Scotty ask to wash Reagans underwear? I ask again, what did he do that was so great? Can’t they find a modern day hero?

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It imbued him with magical powers. He is now the anointed one, or so he would like you to believe

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Exactly. As I clicked into comments I was going write something like: it sounds like Walker has some part of a Brian Williams problem and whole friggin’ heepinp part of creepy. I apologyze for reading your mind.

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“…Reagan…”

Reagan was the guy who sold guns to Iran, wasn’t he?

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And:
¨"And they brought over a pair of white gloves to me and they said, ‘No one has touched this since President Reagan. It is his mother’s Bible that he took the oath of office on. Mrs. Reagan would like you to hold it and take a picture with it’," Walker said in a YouTube video of part of the speech posted by a reporter for the liberal magazine The Progressive.

Audience members can be heard gasping, then applauding as Walker tells the story.¨

Man, that there was one powerful congregation of dumbfuckery.

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So, Walker’s wedding anniversary falls on Reagan’s birthday? And . . . ? Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, you know.

I swear: If Republicans could figure out a way of publicly displaying Reagan’s body in a way that didn’t invite comparisons with Lenin’s tomb, they would have done it by now.

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I’ve heard some pathetic stories in my life. But this “touching the hem of the master and receiving his posthumous blessing” is beyond belief. How dumb and credulous is this guy really? Is it even possible that he graduated from grade school?

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It’s not him but his audience who is the marks in this political version of Splinter from the True Cross.

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If he really did hold Reagan’s bible some of the pages would be stuck together due to his obsessive deification of the man.

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Add flat out lying to the flip flopping, union busting and Koch addiction that make up the Walker resume.

And these are his strengths, the known facts, wait until some oppo researchers tear into this guy. I see him wearing Rick Perry smart glasses and commenting on the height of trees very soon.

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As long as he has enough dumb and credulous supporters, it doesn’t much matter. He may not actually believe the story himself, seeing how it’s mostly fiction.

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No, not anymore. And he never raised taxes. And he never suffered a terrorist attack on his watch. And after that terrorist attack that didn’t happen, he didn’t allow a second attack in the same area months later. And after that second attack that didn’t happen, he didn’t withdraw from Lebanon (cut and run!!!).

That doesn’t fit the myth.

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Does anyone know if it would be possible, for a president Walker, or any future president, to bring Ronnie’s Mommy’s Bible back to the oval office, where a future president could install Ronnie’s Mommy’s Bible in a suitable and fitting setting or depository of some sort, on the Resolute desk, so that the future president could, when necessary, conviently remove his/her gloves and respectfully place his/her unmediated hands on Ronnie’s Mommy’s Bible, the better to channel Ronnie? Like Maybe when Jesus is offline?

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