Great stuff from the great Johnny Dollar! He also notices when Media Matters plays the fuzzy-numbers game, and J$ crunches his own numbers right back. Check out his take on a Media Matters study of the O'Reilly Factor that asserts that most guests are Republican...which, of course, is empirically untrue. But in their grand secret-police, 2 + 2 = 5, mess-with-your-mind tradition, Media Matters has found a way around that--by tagging individual guests with non-partisan, or "Neutral" labels (among others), as opposed to "Republican" or "Democrat" (among others) and using the mislabeled guests to skew the results. There's torturing the data until it confesses...but somebody needs to report Media Matters to the UN for crimes against, well, data.
J$ calls the Brockian Hordes on all of this, including putting a spotlight on the laughable mislabelings of Eric Burns, Ellis Henican, Lis Wiehl, and Judge Andrew Napolitano, among others...ah, numbers games. They're not so fun when they're based on what your own personal dishonest definition of "a number" is, is it, Media Matters?
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