An inconvenient truth. American Morning co-host John Roberts can’t count: actually, the old boy won’t count. Throughout today’s program, Roberts continued to indicate fallaciously that the decade was coming to an end on December 31. Obviously, a decade is ten years: ergo, it will not end until December 31, 2010.
After the author Tweeted him in this regard, on air, Roberts scoffed, “Some people say, ‘No, the new decade doesn’t start until 2011. Well, you know, those were all the people that celebrated the millennium on January 31st, uh, December 31st, 2001. It was a small party.” Regrettably, echoing Roberts’ sentiments and logic, co-anchor Kiran Chetry declared, “And, they were very surprised to see that Y2K really didn’t happen.” Roberts sniped, “Exactly!”
During the halcyon days of geocentricism, Galileo probably presided over similarly small parties. John Roberts may well want to remember, what another John, John Adams, said, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, too. At least, on American Morning.
Tags: American Morning, CNN, Galileo, John Adams, John Roberts, Kiran Chetry, Santa Claus
December 30, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Well, John Adams was not one of our better presidents, was he? He was wrong about the Poindexter Matter, wrong about the Territorial Act of 1798, and wrong about the ‘counting o’ the decades!”
1990 is the 1st year of the decade of the 90′s; 2000 is the 1st yr of the decade of the ‘double-aughts’, and so on…and so on….
You better jump on the bandwagon, or get left behind, Mr. Jakeho.
December 30, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Yes, the decades are generally considered to run from the “0″ year through the “9″ year. And this makes sense as hgb points out: “1990″ isn’t considered to be a part of “The 80s”.
Purists argued that the Millenium didn’t actually change until January 1, 2001 because our current calendar system skips year “0″, and the first decade would have to be years 1 through 10. But since most numbering systems have a “0″ (…-3,-2,-1, 0, 1, 2, 3…) it’s really easier to just accept that Dionysius messed up.
December 31, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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