Don Lemon takes down the filmmaker whose sloppy use of numbers provoked Trump's Sweden comments

[DonViejo]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/watch-don-lemon-take-down-the-whose-sloppy-use-of-numbers-provoked-trumps-sweden-comments/

[madaboutharry]

1. It is impossible to debate a pretzel.

Don Lemon: "Are your eyes and ears working?"

[George II]

2. Too bad they can't hash out the actual number fast enough on screen. I just did a quick summary...

...of the murders in Sweden going back to 2006. They have an unbelievably low number and rate. If one were to zero in on just two years (that guy likes to do that), there was only ONE more murder in 2015 than 2007. In fact, all but three years since 2006 were higher than that year. When working with such a low raw number the differences are minimal.

2006 91
2007 111
2008 82
2009 93
2010 91
2011 81
2012 68
2013 87
2014 87
2015 112

Murder "rate":

2006 - one per 99,400
2010 - one per 103,400
2015 - one per 87,950

[brush]

3. And trump jumps all over this fraud's intentionally inflated numbers to say, "look what happened...

in Sweden last night".

This is who our president is, a FOX TV junkie who scarfs up their falsehoods and then re-spews them in tweets.

God, are we screwed.