Saturday Night Live featured “Lyndon LaRouche Theater,” in which Randy Quaid played LaRouche, with a bald wig, bow-tie and spectacles, narrating melodramatic twists, conspiracies, and
confessing “Il am insane.”
Not mentioned in the book, near the end of March 1981, | delivered a keynote address at the Youth International Party convention in New York. These were the latterday Yippies, originally launched as the anti-Yippie “Zippies” during the 1972 both conventions in Miami. | asked the audience a rhetorical question, “How would you like to be a Secret Service agent guarding Ronald Reagan, Knowing that his vice president, George Bush, is the former head of the CIA?”
Once again, satire would be outdistanced by reality. On March 30, the president was shot by John Hinckley in order to make a favorable impression on actress Jodie Foster so that he could take her bowling on a date. Ironicallly, Hinckley came out
for gun control, and Reagan came out against it.
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