IS THIS ONLY A JOKE?

Once comedian Bill Hicks said:

I have this feeling that whoever's elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with twelve industrialist, capitalists scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down...and it is a shot of Kennedy's assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously of the grassy knoll...And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to new president, 'Any questions?'