ALL OF THIS JUST ON SUNDAY:
The US Department of Education published a tweet that spelled W.E.B. Du Bois’s name incorrectly. That error stood for four hours before it was finally corrected. The Department of Education then apologized, with another typo:
“Our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo…”
Great start for Betsy DeVos. Or DuVos. Or DeVes.
A couple hours later, the Republican Party published a tweet that quoted Abraham Lincoln on his birthday, except that it wasn’t something Abraham Lincoln ever said.
In fact, the quote probably originates from the 1940s. As the website Quote Investigator notes, a version of the quote was probably first uttered by a medical doctor named Edward J. Stieglitz, quoted in the Chicago Tribune in 1947.
To top it all off, the official inaugural photo of Donald Trump, on sale now at the Library of Congress, also has a typo in its one and only sentence:
Earlier in the week, The Trump Administration gave the press a typo-riddled lists of terrorist attacks that they claimed were not covered enough by the press.
Kellyanne Conaway’s Bowling Green Massacre (a story that she has repeated multiple times until she was caught) was not on this list, but it received ample coverage nonetheless. Rightfully so.
I know. I know. I’m an elitist for thinking that our government might have some spell checking apparatus in place and we might expect a modicum of professionalism from our leaders, but it doesn’t look good and makes me worry about other items requiring precision.
Say… the value of the dollar. The rate of inflation. Interest rates. The location to drop a bomb on a terrorist. The nuclear codes.
