Unintentionally hilarious typo of the day from the New York Times:

[Robb]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/us/politics/congress-budget-debate.html?_r=0

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I'm slipping. It took me a minute to find it.

But, ain't it the truth.

[KansDem]

2. Well, isn't it time to put a dent in the debt?

Thanks for posting!

[malaise]

3. ROFL

[surrealAmerican]

4. Somebody has a new nickname now.

This could stick.

[L0oniX]

5. Perfect!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Somebody finally fixed it.

[geek tragedy]

7. What did it say? nt

[BumRushDaShow]

13. It corrected the name "Mr. Debt" to "Mr Dent". nt

[marble falls]

8. Got to love the spell check!

[RC]

9. What makes anyone think that was a mistake in the first place?

Sometime non-mistakes slip through.

[Marthe48]

10. What happened to open Govt. first

and pass debt ceiling, then negotiate?

[grantcart]

11. Spell check is our friend

[Robb]

12. In this case, it was the enemy.

See also: every newspaper on the planet teaches its computers to reject the word "pubic" unilaterally.

[cui bono]

21. Actually, spell check is the problem.

Spell check wouldn't find anything wrong with that since "debt" is a correctly spelled word. It also allows for using "their" instead of "there", etc., which I see from time to time in major online sites' articles since as long as it's a word spelled correctly it will go through.

[TygrBright]

14. Oh, I think some Editor said "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that... until later." n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Welcome to Campaign 2014, Charlie Debt!

I see billboards .... bumper stickers .... this is going to be a hot item

[elleng]

16. HA!

[AAO]

17. Little did Mr. Debt know he would forever be known as Dr. Death.

[Blue Owl]

18. And the lovely Mrs. Debt

n/t

[Graybeard]

19. The shut-down has already cost the nation $$$$$2billion.

Mr. Debt, Mrs. Debt, and the Debt Party are
complete hypocrites.

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. Is this sloppy reporting? …

From the article:

But House Republicans appear intent on extracting at least one concession: depriving members of Congress, the president, the vice president and White House political appointees of government contributions when they buy health insurance under the law’s new exchanges. Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader, said any proposal must reflect what he called “our position on fairness” — “no special treatment under the law.”

Everything I have heard reported, the “Special Treatment” thing, it applied to staffers as well, not just elected members and Whitehouse political appointees.

But I could understand the gop’s desire to down play that, as it takes a really special kind of stupid think your staff will remain loyal to you as you very publically indicate that you don’t give a crap about them. And it takes a really, really kind of stupid to remain that loyal staffer.