{"id":134,"date":"2011-04-01T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/?p=134"},"modified":"2011-04-01T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T23:28:17","slug":"email-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Email forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">You can get away with anything if you have the right Spin Doctor on the job!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Political Correctness<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><br \/>\nIt just all depends on how you look at some things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern  California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She  discovered that Congressman Harry Reid&#8217;s great-great uncle, Remus Reid,  was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both  Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/a\/virtualinfamy.com\/?ui=2&amp;ik=a913aa0d86&amp;view=att&amp;th=12e9c84719a6840b&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=emb&amp;zw\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">On the back  of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription:  &#8216;Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885,  escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton  detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So Judy recently e-mailed Congressman Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Harry Reid:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/a\/virtualinfamy.com\/?ui=2&amp;ik=a913aa0d86&amp;view=att&amp;th=12e9c84719a6840b&amp;attid=0.2&amp;disp=emb&amp;zw\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\nBelieve it or not, Harry Reid&#8217;s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His  business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian  assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in  1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service,  finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887,  he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned  Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an  important civic function held in his honour when the platform upon which  he was standing collapsed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NOW THAT&#8217;s how it&#8217;s done, Folks!<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s real POLITICAL SPIN<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get away with anything if you have the right Spin Doctor on the job! Political Correctness It just all depends on how you look at some things&#8230; Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Congressman Harry Reid&#8217;s great-great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qyestioneverything.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}