Apr 10 2007
Media’s Funny Math
It seems the media is showing why journalism majors should stay clear of stories that use numbers and math. Reports out that demonstrations in Najef, Iraq numbered “Tens of thousands” turned out to be hopelessly wrong when the actual numbers were 5-7,000 (H/T Gateway Pundit). Counting is so hard when you are suffering from BDS.
The BBC reported the numbers in the hundreds of thousands and there was at least one report of 600,000. It is just plain stupid. The media is playing Moqtada al Sadr up to be a lot larger than he really is. His previous call to action in Sadr City was met with one feeble protest by a couple of hundred from one mosque. Considering how much this latest event was pumped up, it is indicative of yet another failure by Sadr to drum up any support. The longer he stays in Iran, the more control and influence will slip from him.
Well, the media is trying its best to help Sadr and all the other militants. I would like to put these anti-American organizations out of business. They deserve it. They are traitors all.
Al-Sadr’s Anti-American Protest Well Below Expectations…
Gateway Pundit has an excellent roundup of the protest in Najaf organized by Iranian-allied Al-Sadr, including this report by the Multi-National Force Iraq (emphasis added):Citizens of Iraq assembled in Najaf Monday to conduct a demonstration against t…
I can understand being off by a few thousand, but there is a hell of a differnce between 600,000 and 6,000.
EUREKA! I think I have a solution to the Iran problem! It should be a plan that even Liberals can get on board with. First of all, the US surrenders unconditionally to Iran. Then we hold elections, move the capital to Washington DC, vote English as the official language and George Bush as President and we become the world’s second largest oil exporter.
The media has always exaggerated the number of protesters in any protest in the last six years. Anything to promote their BDS agenda even to the point of lyingto their readers. Does anybody believe anything they read in the papers? As Rush Limbaugh said about the NY Times, “What if it were true?”.