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Anyone feeling sympathetic towards @FoxNews now that they're on Trump's not-peachy list? Well you can stop that right now. Allow me to take you back to that den of iniquity with this lovely opinion piece by @mirandadevine, published yesterday:
Let's start with that headline: if there's fraud, we must find it.
As a resident of the Pacific NW, I feel the same way about Sasquatch...if it exists, we should find it. But my desire to find him doesn't make Sasquatch real.
As a resident of the Pacific NW, I feel the same way about Sasquatch...if it exists, we should find it. But my desire to find him doesn't make Sasquatch real.
. @bradheath has a nice thread on this, describing observations released by the GOP of voter fraud in Detroit. Lots of obnoxious behavior, some suspicions. No hard evidence. https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1326394667542441987
Even better, check out @Ike_Saul's amazing thread debunking allegations of voter fraud. It's a thing of beauty. https://twitter.com/Ike_Saul/status/1324435797374808066
And of course the @nytimes this morning puts it to rest: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Okay, so maybe no evidence of fraud. But @mirandadevine has more! She wants us to know how *crazy* close this election has been, so we'll recognize the need to inspect *every* allegation of *every* weird vote.
Whoa--0.08 percent? That's incredibly close!
Wanna know why? Because it's wrong. It's bad math.
Wanna know why? Because it's wrong. It's bad math.
Presumably you get that number by comparing the vote differential in swing states to the total number of votes cast. This is meaningless. You can either compare that margin to the vote count IN SWING STATES, or look at the total vote differential across the country.
The current vote differential in swing states is closer to 140k. If we compare this to the number of votes in swing states (just short of 22M), we get 0.64%, which is ineed close, but still 8 times larger than what @mirandadevine suggested.
If you want to use the total number of votes counted, then you have to use the total (national) vote differential, which is [checks values]:
5.1 million/149 million = 3.4%
That's 42 times larger than what Devine said...not the close election she suggests.
5.1 million/149 million = 3.4%
That's 42 times larger than what Devine said...not the close election she suggests.
If you aren't annoyed by bad math (I am annoyed by bad math), then let's consider how @mirandadevine ends this debacle of an opinion piece--with this thoughtful statement about Hunter Biden:
Seriously. This despicable statement was published by a major news agency. Regardless of what you think about Joe Biden, this is a grotesque thing to say.
I'm thinking that @mirandadevine is not a particularly nice person.
Anyhow, I've been seeing a handful of Tweets that seem pleasantly surprised by Fox's recent calling out of the Trump campaign, so let's be clear--this is a gross media company that manipulates data and caters to our lowest tendencies. You owe them no sympathy.
