August 12, 2009, 11:24AM
TPM has a fasicnating
headline today about about mistaken assumptions: on the face of it, it's just an embarrassing blunder. The editor of Investor Business Weekly
speculated that the eminent scientist Steven Hawking would have been eliminated by NHS death panels had he been, erh.. British.
As embarrassing as that is, not knowing Hawking's nationality is a mere detail. The real mistake, far more ominous for its ignorance, are the mistaken assumptions flourishing in the media about "hell hole socialist countries" and "death panels."
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