Best Snark Evah!!!!

Don'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 "Obama will engage in Nazi-style euthanasia^™".

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 retarded libertarian magazine Human Events,^* received this missive titled Grandmas and Unborn Babies Face Extermination by Obama’s “Health” Care Plan, which cited an editorial in Investors Business Daily, which claimed that:

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.^†

The problem here, as Mr. Bookman so ably notes, is that Stephen Hawking lives in the UK, and has lived there his entire life, and furthermore, he has, since the age of 6½, had his medical care covered by that very same National Health Service that is allegedly chomping at the bit to kill him.

The folks writing about this are stupid and evil beyond belief.

That being said, while Jay Bookman is an engaging writer, this is not the "Best Snark Evah!!!!", that distinction is left to the comments on his blog post, specifically the first comment, from one Brad Steel:

Hawking can talk the talk, but he can’t walk the walk.

I think that I broke something laughing.

^*Thankfully, I have avoided this fate.
^†You won't find it there any more, though there is a note there noting the "correction".