U.S.: Way to go, doofus: A Slate error fell into Obama’s health care speech
- Here at Slate, we correct errors quickly and conspicuously, and usually Slate readers alert me almost instantly whenever I goof (which I try very hard not to do). But nobody told me about this blunder.
- Slate writer Timothy Noah • Describing the series of events that led a factually-flawed detail from one of his articles to wind up in Obama’s health care speech. Dude, it’s the president. THE PRESIDENT. You’re supposed to not screw up those sorts of things. In all seriousness, the fact revolved around the plight of Otto Raddatz, whose insurance was canceled after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Noah said he died as a result. In reality, the Illinois attorney general’s office went to bat for him and he eventually got a life-extending surgery. • source