Media Matters Shows How The RW Uses Selective Statistics to LIE

[stopbush]

CNN contributor Watkins falsely claimed poverty reduction under Bush rather than Clinton


CNN contributor, talk radio host, and Bush-Cheney '04 campaign adviser Rev. Joe Watkins falsely claimed that the United States has experienced a "reduction" in poverty under President Bush. Misleadingly citing poverty statistics on the September 12 edition of CNN's Paula Zahn Now, Watkins stated that "under Bill Clinton, 15.1 percent of the population was poor; under President Bush, 12.7 percent of the population is poor. That's a reduction, that's a good thing." But the poverty rate declined every year Clinton was in office, from 15.1 percent when he took office in 1993 to a low of 11.3 percent in 2000; it has risen every year that Bush has been in office, from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.7 percent in 2004.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509130002

[thoughtanarchist]

1. I sent them a tip on that!

When I saw the WaPo story and the mischaracterization of the story further bastardized on fauxnews.com I sent snips to Media Matters from their input page!

Go MMA!

:patriot:

[gratuitous]

2. SOP for the GOP

Clinton spend eight years cleaning up the messes left by Reagan and Bush the Eviller, and had just about put the country onto a solid financial footing when he left in 2001. All that was needed was a continuation of responsible fiscal policies and a commitment to a future that included all of our citizens.

And now the next Democratic president will have to spend another eight years undoing the atrocious stewardship of the years of Bush the Dumber.

[zbdent]

3. That's akin to saying

Figures approximate:

Yeah, look at the stock market under Clinton: 3300.

Look at the stock market under Bush43: 10900.

Then conveniently forgetting to mention that the 3300 was the lowest point of Clinton's era, in OCTOBER OF 1993, and that the highest was nearly 12000 in March 2000.

Plus, the 10900 was the highest point of Bush's presidency, in early 2001.

[Supersedeas]

4. he needs to be exposed as a FRAUD in every public appearance for this shit

[applegrove]

5. Yup. All their stats - or most of them - are lies. Watkins is just a

parrot of Grover's fax tree.

[sonicx]

6. This is so blatant, i can't believe this person...

calls himself a reverend.