Another recent favorite of that sort was Wolf Blitzer’s incredibly insightful comment on this last Southern California earthquake:
“There’s going to be some damage, but not nearly as significant as a more significant earthquake would have caused.”
Really, Wolf? You don’t say!?
You’ve got to love it, it’s in the CNN transcript and everything.
thats even more dumb considering the richter scale is heavily exponential.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_scale