IBD prints idiotic editorial about Stephen Hawking...gets pwnt by Stepen Hawking

[tricky]

they also retracted their mention of Hawking being left out to die....note the "correction" at the top




Which the editorial board of Investors Business Daily obviously is, as they allowed this to be printed on their pages.

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.

Perhaps they don't have access to the Internets at Investors Business Daily, because even Wikipedia will tell you that Hawking is British, lives in Britain, and has lived to the age of 67 there, and was diagnosed with ALS under, and treated by the National Health Service for his entire adult life. They must have just been fooled by his voice synthesizer's American accent.
But just to make this absolutely clear, here's the man himself:

"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS," he told us. "I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."

[BigBallinColin]

that is a bit lol but he is famous and we need him I think a large amount of money keeping him alive is worth it.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by BigBallinColin

that is a bit lol but he is famous and we need him I think a large amount of money keeping him alive is worth it.

and therein lies the rub... whom do we not need and who gets to decide?

[Ash]

i want to be on the voting panel

[Sinner]

Originally Posted by Ash

i want to be on the voting panel

rumor has it that only storm troopers are allowed to be on the death panels.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by NoKegger4U

rumor has it that only storm troopers are allowed to be on the death panels.

midget amputee storm troopers with nasty dispositions

[BigBallinColin]

Originally Posted by PETA

and therein lies the rub... whom do we not need and who gets to decide?

as cool as steven hawking, that one is easy.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by BigBallinColin

as cool as steven hawking, that one is easy.

I suppose we could just take all the public telephone santizers et al and put them on a ship to another galaxy where they'd be no tribble at all... of course then we'd be in danger of dying from a public telephone plague but that's a risk we must be prepared to take

[tricky]

only poor people use public telephones....and the death panels have already deemed them unworthy to live....

[Tomb]

Originally Posted by tricky

only poor people use public telephones....and the death panels have already deemed them unworthy to live....

lol

[tricky]

http://www.cjr.org/_resourcesbeta/im...l/img_logo.gif Economic Crisis, The Audit — August 12, 2009 06:24 PM

Investor’s Business Daily Short-Arms Correction

By Ryan Chittum
Investor’s Business Daily corrected an embarrassing boo-boo in an editorial and in the process made another huge error.
In an editorial ginning up fear over Obama’s health-care plan and comparing it to the dread National Health Service in the UK, IBD wrote that the famed physicist Stephen Hawking would have been toast had he lived in the UK because, IBD said, ridiculously, the country’s eugenics-like health policies deem handicapped people worthless.
Of course, Hawking is British and has lived there his whole life. He’s a professor at Cambridge for crying out loud.
Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution caught the whopper and it was picked up by other outlets, including Talking Points Memo.
Here’s the original line, which is now stricken from the editorial:

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.

This is sick, dishonest stuff, so it’s sweet that Hawking himself calls it out, telling a TPM blogger “I wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”
But IBD’s correction creates another problem. Here is its entire text:

Editor’s Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.

It has removed the Hawking reference from the story (even, apparently, in Factiva, which doesn’t have it either), but short-arms the correction, which should have read something like: “This version corrects the original editorial which falsely implied that physicist Stephen Hawking would be dead as a doornail if he lived in the UK and had to use the National Health. Hawking has lived in the UK his entire life, and as of press time, is still alive.
In my dream world they’d also tack on an “Also, this basically kills the premise of our entire editorial, which never should have been written. We resign in disgrace.”
Alas, that’s not going to happen. But IBD ought to go ahead and correct the false information contained in its quote of the notorious Betsy McCaughey, who says the House’s bill “compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years,” which is an easy-to-figure-out fact error, as The Atlantic’s Conor Clarke makes plain. I’m sure there are a few other fact errors in there. Send me an email or post a comment if you see one.
I don’t have much of an opinion on Obama’s health-care plan. I do think we ought to have the debate on the facts and not on fallacious and dangerous talking points about “death panels” and the like.
And if you correct a serious mistake, you have to be clear about what you’re really correcting, no matter how embarrassing or how much it kills your argument.

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/investo...aily_short.php

[PETA]

Originally Posted by tricky

only poor people use public telephones....and the death panels have already deemed them unworthy to live....

barely obscure references dash past illiterate pup... film at 11

[tricky]

Originally Posted by PETA

barely obscure references dash past illiterate pup... film at 11

snide unprovoked comment....?

nice asshat

[PETA]

Originally Posted by tricky

snide unprovoked comment....?

nice asshat

lol - isn't that ^ the pinnacle of irony

[tricky]

Originally Posted by PETA

lol - isn't that ^ the pinnacle of irony

laugh it up asshat. you are by far one of the biggest idiots that posts in this forum and i really don't have the energy to have another pissing contest with your inflated ego. (but apparently you have plenty of time yet you bitch about paying taxes for all that hard work you do which basically is shuffling papers and running your mouth on a rave message board.)

we all get it. your shit doesn't stink. you're smarter than all of us. you're right...100% of the time.

you're obviously just a giant douche and i hope you're content with that.