RW Rag Rags on Michelle Malkin

[madeline_con]

Size Matters; So Do Lies

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But yesterday, someone told a real whopper. ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had attended the tea party rally at the Capitol. By the time this figure reached Michelle Malkin, however, it had been blown up to 2,000,000. There is a big difference, obviously, between 70,000 and 2,000,000. That's not a twofold or threefold exaggeration -- it's roughly a thirtyfold exaggeration.

The way this false estimate came into being is relatively simple: Matt Kibbe, the president of FreedomWorks, lied, claiming that ABC News had reported numbers of between 1.0 and 1.5 million when they never did anything of the sort. A few tweets later, the numbers had been exaggerated still further to 2 million. Kibbe wasn't "in error", as Malkin gently puts it. He lied. He did the equivalent of telling people that his penis is 53 inches long.

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http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/size-matters-so-do-lies.html

[lapfog_1]

1. Matt Kibbe has a 1.7 inch penis?

Really?

[Bonn1997]

18. LOLOLOL! I must be the only one who realizes the math you did to come up with that #

I don't get why the author said 53 inches. It's nowhere near the right ratio and it's not like 53 is a nice even number that you would round off to.

[Chulanowa]

2. I'm just dying here...

"it's roughly a thirtyfold exaggeration. (...) He did the equivalent of telling people that his penis is 53 inches long."

That's burn.

[malaise]

3. So Malkin is blaming Kibbe for the numbers lie

Freaking priceless. Rethugs always lie - no news here. :puke:
Who is GENBC blaming for their numbers lie?

[McCamy Taylor]

4. ROFLMAO

[Cirque du So-What]

5. A teeny-weeny bit of mathematical calculation

2,000,000 / 60,000 = 33.3

53" / 33.3 = 1.6"

:rofl:

No wonder he's such a mean-spirited little bastid!

[tularetom]

6. LOL - I guess we'd all feel pretty stupid if

his penis really was 53 inches long.

[Touchdown]

11. Then he would be a killer whale.

[Control-Z]

12. Ew. Is that

what I think it is?

[Touchdown]

13. Gives new meaning to "free Willy" doesn't it?

:rofl:

[Control-Z]

20. That will haunt my dreams

the rest of my life, thank you. Yikes.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Funny there was a DUer throwing around that 1 to 1.5 million figure

yesterday. Another posted an 'arial' shot that turned out to be from 1997. Sounds like the whole thing was a failure.

[madeline_con]

9. Someone also posted pics of the Obama innaguration to see

what 2 million looks like. That showed the LIE in their numbers.

[LuckyTheDog]

8. What can you expect...

... from an "anchor baby" who, as an adult, takes a really hard line against undocumented immigrants?

[Buzz Clik]

10. Michelle Malkin has no truth filter. She simply does not care about accuracy.

So ... 2 million versus 60,000? Two million it is!

[blogslut]

14. Great article but I'm confused

FiveThirtyEight is not a right-wing rag.Maybe I need to read the article again. Was there a mention, in the piece, of a right wing publication/website that spanked Ms. Malkin?

[madeline_con]

15. Maybe I misinterpreted because of the way "liberals" were discussed.

:shrug:

[blogslut]

19. Nate Silver is a numbers wonk

While all the pollsters were getting it wrong during the election season, he was the lone voice that patiently insisted those pollsters were using outdated methods. Nate Silver was our numbers hero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver

[Warren DeMontague]

16. The fact is, 1.2 Million people marched in Washington D.C.

Of course, that was on April 25, 2004, and the march was for reproductive rights.



For some odd reason I can't figure out, though... :eyes: the media has given way more coverage to the 60,000 (if that) who showed up yesterday. I don't get it!

[Emit]

17. FiveThirtyEight is not RW