Very, very sloppy

JayTea at Wizbang! spotted a ridiculously bad Boston Globe article about Jews 'celebrating' Holocaust Memorial Day at Faneuil Hall. JayTea rightly takes the Globe to task for their very, very poor choice of words. Shall we celebrate the African slave trade and the ravages of smallpox while we're at it? How about celebrating the genocide in Darfur?

Clearly an editor needs a beating.

So does a fact checker.

Also included in the celebration was the presentation of the title of “Rightous [sic] Among the Nations.”

Is it rude to point out spelling errors? Yeah, probably.

The families of the late Alexandra Dagarova-Noim, Danielius Zilevicius, Ona Zileviciene and Adolfina Zileviciene were presented with the honor, which is bestowed upon those who saved the lives of other Jews during the Holocaust.

Hold on a minute... you're saying you have to be Jewish to be named one of the Righteous? I'll bet that comes as a shock to all the Lithuanian families honored yesterday, who were probably under the illusion that they were Christian.

The title has previously been awarded to notable Jewish figures Oskar Schindler and Chinue Sugihara.

You're saying that Schindler, born to Catholic parents, was actually a crypto-Jew!? That's big news! And Sugihara was Jewish too? I bet the history of how the Japanese consul to Lithuania turned out to be Jewish would make a great story. If it were true. Which it ain't.