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August 11, 2009
Say What?
This is all over the blogosphere but just in case you haven't seen it, here's a line from the first posting of an editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily. I link to the Google Cache version. They have since deleted this crazy sentence.
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
As Ed Brayton says, "There's just one tiny little problem with this: Stephen Hawking was born and raised in the UK and has lived there all his life. He teaches at Cambridge. That's in the UK. This ranks up there with the French not having a word for entrepreneur."
Without the sentence, the editorial is more than a little flat. From a rhetorical point of view, and all this is is rhetoric, the sentence was central to their argument. Had they actually said Hawking lived all his life in the UK it would have killed their point.
The revised article is here. At least they admitted the mistake.
Update, August 11, 2009: 2:28 PM: It looks like the Google Cache image has itself been updated in the last few minutes. I'll try to find the original original.
Update, August 11, 2009: 2:40 PM: Bearcastle Blog has the original text in context.
Posted by Duane Smith at August 11, 2009 2:17 PM | Read more on Current Events |
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