Posted on 09/20/2016 8:10:11 AM PDT by bobsunshine
...Afghan immigrant Ahmad Khan Rahami is wanted by authorities in connection to bomb attack in Chelsea. Dahir Adan from Somalia went on a stabbing rampage on Saturday at a St. Cloud mall.
On Monday Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an informative graphic comparing Muslim refugees to Skittles. The liberal media is outraged. (Tweet) "If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful?"
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
It's a perfect analogy. That must be what's bothering hillary's storm troopers.
[I think the brownies and dog crap analogy would have worked better.]
You would be pointing out their brown skin color and comparing it to feces... THAT’S RACIST!!
I saw this story covered on Maria Bartiaromo this morning. She and her girlfriends were all offended. I just don’t get what everyone is offended by. This analogy has been around for a long time.
Does anyone understand the offense?
MSM=traitors to the people and the Republic.
Hey, I have a great cookie for you, its got chocolate chips and sugar and great cookie dough....oh, its got just a tiny bit of dog crap...but hey look at all these big chocolate chips...
She lives in Manhattan, in the abode of the perpetually offended.
Do they make bacon-flavored Skittles? Maybe a mixed bag of peperoni, pork rinds, bacon, etc.
From now until election day, Donald Trump is going to come under fire for every single thing that happens in the universe. He will also come under fire for everything that doesn’t happen in the universe. In addition to that, he will come under fire for everything that happened in history from the beginning of time to the present. To complete the circle, he will be blamed for everything that did not happen from the beginning of time to the present.
He didn’t compare muslims to skittles...he compared risk,there is a difference. The liberal media is desperate to portray the Trump campaign as racist because they are at risk of losing substantial percentage of black and Hispanic vote.
They would be offended no matter the analogy. These people would invent a way to be offended.
Unreal!
That’s what they do...subvert reality. And get paid fairly well to do it.
The only way to be genuinely offended at the analogy is for maligning skittles by the comparison.
He is not ‘comparing’ anything. He’s using skittles as the object to make a point. And a very good one I might add.
He could have used m%m’s or cheerios cereal, and he could have made the same point, but the msm would have still had a bird.
Instead of understanding the analogy, they try to equate it to the physical size of the Skittle and number of refugees to match the odds instead of looking at the risk of just a few bad ones. If only 1000 are admitted and 2 are terrorists, then that is 2 too many. We have more risk with refugees not fully vetted than with people legally wanting to enter our country to share our values. How stupid are these people at the MSM. WOW !!
This is what the WP said - basically comparing the size of the Skittle to the number it would take to have a threat. Like a pool full of Skittles with three bad ones in the pool - here is part of the story:
“This tweet, from Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr., makes a good point. Except for the part in blue, which is completely wrong.”.......
“If there were a bowl of delicious fruitish-flavored Skittles in front of you and three would kill you, you should not pick up a handful and start eating. That would be a very, very bad idea.
This idea easily scales downward. If you had a carton of eggs and three of the eggs were poisonous, you should absolutely not eat from that carton. If I give you three cookies and all three are poisonous, again: Avoid! I am actively trying to kill you for some reason, perhaps because you are bad at math.
The problem for Donald J. Trump, Jr. is that scaling it the other way doesn’t work as well — and that’s why the part in blue doesn’t apply.
So let’s figure out what the analogy is. The libertarian (and Koch brothers-backed) think tank Cato Institute published a report last week assessing the risk posed by refugees. That report stated that, each year, the risk to an American of being killed by a refugee in a terror attack is 1 in 3.64 billion, as Huffington Post’s Elise Foley noted on Twitter. From the report:
From 1975 through 2015, the annual chance that an American would be murdered in a terrorist attack carried out by a foreign-born terrorist was 1 in 3,609,709. Foreigners on the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) killed zero Americans in terrorist attacks, whereas those on other tourist visas killed 1 in 3.9 million a year. The chance that an American would be killed in a terrorist attack committed by a refugee was 1 in 3.64 billion a year.
In other words, for every 10.92 billion years that Americans live — one Skittle, if you will — refugees will kill an American in a terror attack in three.
An actual Skittle is about 1 centimeter squared by about a half a centimeter tall (or thereabouts). Setting aside questions of stacking the oblong Skittles in this very large bowl by assuming each will occupy two-thirds of that volume, we’re talking about one-and-a-half Olympic swimming pools of Skittles. Wrigley produces 200 million Skittles a day, so this is the entire production line for more than 54 days, transported to an oversized swimming pool and dumped in to the top. And in that pool: Three poison Skittles.”
The hatred I hold for the members of the media, the Democrats, obama, obama voters, and Hillary, no human tongue can tell.
Otherwise, the bright colored skittles probably would cause hillary to have another seizure.
I can just hear the left saying “”Skittles? Aha -— let’s use that one!!””
Someone on Fox said the same thing using M&Ms instead of Skittles yesterday and no one got outraged
Brilliant!
Hahahaa....so far they’ve got a cartoon frog, Skittles and “he’s mean”......How pathetic are these people?
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