{"id":191498,"date":"2009-08-11T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/11\/best-snark-evah\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:17:00","slug":"best-snark-evah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/11\/best-snark-evah\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Snark Evah!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 260px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/5918\/stephenhawkingstarchild.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Don&#8217;t Make Me Get Out of this Chair!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jay Bookman notes a contradiction in the arguments of the &#8220;Obama will engage in Nazi-style euthanasia<sup>\u2122<\/sup>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that one of the widely circulated canards is that if Obama gets his way, he will kill the sick and infirm, and Mr. Bookman, being on the mailing list for <del>retarded<\/del> libertarian magazine <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Human Events<\/span>,<sup>*<\/sup> received this missive titled <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Grandmas and Unborn Babies Face Extermination by Obama\u2019s \u201cHealth\u201d Care Plan<\/span>, which cited an editorial in Investors Business Daily, which claimed that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn\u2019t 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.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem here, as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jay-bookman-blog\/2009\/08\/10\/it-doesnt-take-stephen-hawking-to-figure-this-one-out\/\">Mr. Bookman so ably notes<\/a>, is that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stephen Hawking lives in the UK, and has lived there his entire life<\/span>, and furthermore, he has, since the age of 6\u00bd, had his medical care covered by that very same National Health Service that is allegedly <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">chomping at the bit to kill him<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The folks writing about this are stupid and evil beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, while Jay Bookman is an engaging writer, this is not the &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Best Snark Evah!!!!<\/span>&#8220;, that distinction is left to the comments on his blog post, specifically the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">first<\/span> comment, from one Brad Steel:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">Hawking can talk the talk, but he can\u2019t walk the walk.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I think that I broke something laughing.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Thankfully, I have avoided this fate.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">You won&#8217;t find it there any more, though there is a note there noting the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877\">correction<\/a>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Make Me Get Out of this Chair! Columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jay Bookman notes a contradiction in the arguments of the &#8220;Obama will engage in Nazi-style euthanasia\u2122&#8220;. It appears that one of the widely circulated canards is that if Obama gets his way, he will kill the sick &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1002,1046,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-healthcare","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}