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The Washington Post Proclaims Who Is Responsible for Murder Spikes, and They Are Laughably Wrong
RedState ^ | July 16, 2020 | Bonchie

Posted on 07/16/2020 10:17:41 AM PDT by sickoflibs

When Bari Weiss wrote in her resignation letter from The New York Times earlier in the week that editors at these liberal publications start at a narrative and work backward, she perfectly summarized everything that is wrong with the media.

The Washington Post decided to go out and prove her even more correct this morning by publishing what is one of the worst, most poorly cited articles I’ve ever read.

Tweet : The Washington Post "Analysis: Spring gun-buying binge, fueled by social upheaval, leads to spike in violent crime, new research shows Americans purchased millions more guns than usual this spring, spurred in large part by racial animosity stoked by widespread protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as well as anxiety over the effects of the covid-19 pandemic. That gun-buying binge is associated with a significant increase in gun violence across the United States."

Perhaps the author of this piece doesn’t know what associated is? It delineates some kind of direct connection. I ate hot wings last night and live in the United States. Am I now “associated” with the recent spike in gun violence across the country?

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020election; 2ndamendment; banglist; blm; civilunrest; crime; districtofcolumbia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; jeffbezos; media; mediawingofthednc; nra; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; secondamendment; smearmachine; upsidedownworld; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: reardensteel

There are millions of clueless voters to influence


21 posted on 07/16/2020 2:18:52 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Eleutheria5

” It’s like saying a rise in purchases of OFF is causing more mosquito bites.”

exactly ... but piece-of-shite lying-ass WaPo wants trick people into believing that cause and effect is reversed from reality in this case ...


22 posted on 07/16/2020 3:39:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

They want to trick people, but sadly overestimate their own intelligence, and underestimate the intelligence of enough of their would-be pigeons, that only the choir says “Amen”. The rest have a good laugh.


23 posted on 07/16/2020 3:58:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Be Free

That’s no way to talk of journo-school professors. They teach master courses in mendacity.


24 posted on 07/16/2020 4:02:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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