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  • 2010-03-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Bill Cosby and I'm 83 and Tired (en)
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  • Example: [Collected via e-mail, August 2011] The above-referenced opinion piece detailing political and social issues the author is tired of hearing about was penned by Robert A. Hall, a former Massachusetts state senator and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who is also the author of the 2005 book The Good Bits (The Marines, the Massachusetts Senate and Managing Associations). Robert Hall blogs as The Old Jarhead at tartanmarine.blogspot.com, and the piece quoted here, titled I'm Tired, was his blog entry for 19 February 2009. Since August 2011 this opinion piece has been widely circulated on the Internet in a version that presents it as the work of comedian Bill Cosby. Dr. Cosby (who is actually 75 years old) had nothing to do with writing it, and his own site features adenial of any association with it: Some readers who have viewed a correctly attributed version of this item have nonetheless confused its real author, Robert A. Hall (the former Massachusetts state senator) with Robert David Hall (the actor who plays coroner Dr. Al Robbins on the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation). Though their names are similar, they're very different people. Compounding the problem, one version of the e-mail displayed within it a photograph of the actor, thereby erroneously leading recipients to believe the man pictured was the piece's author. In form, this item echoes another I'm Tired piece written in 2005 by Lt. Col. Joe Repya, who like Robert Hall is also a political candidate and veteran. (en)
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