On February 13, I wrote a piece about the astonishing number of typos and errors that had proliferated from the Trump administration on a single day, including the imaginary Bowling Green Massacre and a typo on the official inaugural photo of Donald Trump.
I just noticed that I received a comment on the post from someone who identifies himself as “Mike Pruitt” and worried that perhaps regular readers (like me) failed to notice Mike’s scintillating prose.
I post it here for your reading enjoyment:
“I wonder if this special little snowflake wrote an article on all of the Obama Administration’s typos? Nah, he was too busy trying to figure out a way to detach himself from Obama’s nutsack to bother with that.”
I always appreciate it when readers take the time to comment on something I have written. I wish that Mike’s level of discourse was slightly elevated, but not everyone can adhere to the “no name calling” and “avoidance of vulgarity” policies that I have self-imposed. Nor should they.
I also wish that Mike hadn’t fallen back on the too-often used insult of “snowflake,” which is a common refrain from right wing Internet trolls these days. It’s not that “snowflake” hurts me in anyway. I just appreciate variety, creativity, and ingenuity too much to enjoy an overused zinger like “snowflake.”
Mike is also correct that I did not write a post about all of the Obama administration typos. I’d remind Mike that I’m not a journalist and therefore have no ethical requirement to balance my commentary in any way whatsoever, but I’d also tell him that I have no recollection of any prominent Obama-administration gaffs of the kind I wrote about that day.
- No typos on either of Obama’s inauguration photos. I checked.
- No memorable misspellings of famous people’s names.
- No false attributions of quotations to former Presidents.
- No fake terrorist attacks.
Obama, to my recollection, never mistakenly asserted that a famous American like Frederick Douglass, who has been dead for more than 150 years, was still alive, and his administration, to my knowledge, never referred to African slaves as “immigrants.”
Obama’s administration was simply more precise in my admittedly imperfect memory.
An examination of President Obama’s last 200 tweets also reveals no typos that I can see.
By contrast, there are THREE typos in Donald Trump’s last 10 tweets, and that doesn’t include the tweet that he posted and deleted FOUR TIMES before finally getting the word “hereby” correct.
Count that one and he has SEVEN typos is the last 10 tweets.
Writing a post about the Obama administration’s typos might have simply required far too much research to write. There may not be enough of them to make the post worthwhile. I like low hanging fruit, and the Trump administration provides it in bushels.
Still, I always appreciate the feedback, even when it’s not entirely positive and slightly vulgar.
