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*Tea Party Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) anecdote criticizing government school lunch programs was apparently lifted from a book about an encounter between a student and a private benefactor. Wonkette reported on Thursday that Ryan's remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday regarding a "young boy from a very poor family" relying on "a government program" for his lunches was strikingly similar to the premise of the book An Invisible Thread, which recounted author Laura Schroff's 1986 meeting with an 11-year-old "homeless panhandler" named Maurice, who was receiving lunches through a school program...* Who predicted this story was BS at the time? Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University and Common Room), Eboni K. Williams (attorney and radio host), and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story:
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