<"Facts are stupid things." -- Ronald Reagan, 1988, a misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."

Both are correct, not as a John Adams quote, but as a stupid fact. They just lay there, unchanging, and do absolutely nothing. It takes human interaction to make a fact productive.

Also, stating something said is a misquote, without the speaker stating he actually is quoting, is an assumption. Just another stupid fact.

As for the list of quotes where he repeats an anecdote about "buying a magazine" to several different people, I don't even get the point of that. He shouldn't tell a good story more than once? What's the problem? I use a good turn of phrase over and over again until people here throw shoes at the monitor. So does Bowser. So do a lot of people.

so do most comedians, if you foillow them around the networks. Use what works, until it don't, then get something new.

Dan