Doof Quote of the Day

Posted on 08/10/2009 at 5:39 pm by Bob Cesca

“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.” —Investor’s Business Daily

Stephen Hawking is British.

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  • mattpd

    Oh FFS…I guess they listened to his synthesizer voice and figured that since it didn’t have a british accent he must not be.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com Nanotyrannus

    Their readers probably know about as much about Stephen Hawking as they do about Thomas Paine.

  • Curly Lasagna

    Makes you wonder how much they know about investments……..

  • http://zirgar.blogspot.com ZIRGAR

    I found this really great quote on this story from over at the comments on Balloon-Juice:”You cannot see a naked wingularity, only the accretion disc of shredded facts and logic at its event horizon.”LOL

  • roxsteady

    I read that earlier today on TPM and burst out laughing! I still say these inbreds don’t even know what socialism is let alone who Stephen Hawking is.

  • PharmDude

    From Wikipedia: “Most people with ALS die from respiratory failure, usually within 3 to 5 years from the onset of symptoms.”Hawking was diagnosed in with ALS in 1963. He’s still alive. Do the math.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    We shouldn’t have told them he was British. We should have waited until that statement became viral…until it became their rallying cry…and then slammed them with the truth.Geez, you guys don’t understand strategy very well, do you?

  • scribblechic

    This just isn’t funny to me anymore. I hate them all. I hate the spineless Dems even more because they are allowing these dumbasses to hijack the healthcare reform debate.I’ll be denied affordable coverage for my family because Bubba and the lynch mob think the Darkie Muslim immigrant President is gonna kill Sarah Palin’s kids and all old white people.Is there anywhere in this country where ADULTS can have a serious fucking discussion about this shit?White folks yall need to do a serious intervention on your paranoid ass grandparents. The GOP, MSM and Health insurance mafias are mindfucking their brains out.Soledad should flip the script: Fuck the “Black in America” docs, we need to know what the hell is going on in the minds of white folks in America.Speedy quick please, before this shit gets ugly!

  • CanadaGoose

    That Hawking is alive at all is astounding since by all reckoning he should have been dead decades ago. The NHS deserves a lot of the credit.But I’m beginning to feel like scribblechic — the idiocy is more depressing than funny.

  • roxsteady

    Exactly! I’m a little sick of the media ignoring this. Do they think that blacks are not showing up because Obama is half black? Do they think that most of us actually don’t care? Or, do they even give a shit? I personally think they don’t give a shit what we think. Well this black woman has been paying attention from the very beginning and WE NEED A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION! I just watched a video on a website called Sick for Profit. Saw the Director Robert Greenwald on Ed Shultz’s show tonight and it’s just stunning. I suggest that all of you pull up the video and take a look! It’s 5 minutes and 57 seconds long. It’s also disgusting! If I ever met the insurance douchebage executive on the street, I’d plant my knee into his groin! Or maybe some of those wind up kicks made famous by DeNiro in Goodfellas!

  • Any*Mouse

    “White folks yall need to do a serious intervention on your paranoid ass grandparents. “My parents are on medicare and I called my Dem dad today to check his “death panel” reaction and he said something about a brothel in Ketchikan Alaska and Palin and used the word fuck a few times in the same sentence so, at least in my family, the old folks think the conservative nutjobs are the source of all evil in the world.

  • scribblechic

    Any*Mouse awesome parents GO!!!!I know the majority of Americans of all races are SANE and support healthcare reform. I’m just so sick of these paranoid Obama haters being paraded around as the voice of real Americans hating healthcare. I’m tired of MSM and others asking me to have empathy for these folks because THEIR fears are real(even though its made up bullshit)Well my fear of not having affordable health coverage is also real oh yeah, and its an undeniable FACT. Who’s fucking shouting and screaming for me? *crickets*And just when I call out white folks for the dumbassery they wheel out the ignorant black dude begging for donations for medical bills because he was hurt in a scuffle fighting against healthcare reform.How bout we add death panels for stupid people?

  • Lexaburn

    When people talk out of their asses…

  • SierraDrinker

    I loved that article. I especially loved when the author brought up how Obama explained in detail what was meant by “life planning.” You know, living wills, making sure you don’t leave your kids wondering what to do with your bones why you die.Imagine one of these wingnuts as a kid asking about the sun:Douchey: Teacher, is it true that there are a hundred keebler elves inside the sun burning coal to make it shine?Teacher: the sun actually burns bright through nuclear fission whereby 4 hydrogen atoms are combined into 1 helium atom. The excess energy is given off as visible light and heat.Douchey: I notice you didn’t say that keebler elves aren’t inside the sun. So there must be keebler elves burning coal in there.

  • Russell

    Hawkings people have put out a statement saying that, in fact, the NHS DID save his life…