Last week the Washington Post along with ABC News put out the results of a national poll on a wide variety of issues. I read the poll, and several articles about the poll. Clearly, Mark Twain’s famous quote, “lies, d*mned lies, and statistics” applies here. This is not a matter of differences of opinion, nor of editorial judgments. This is bald-faced lying by the newspaper and network editors. They published statistics that any competent college graduate would have known were false. Many in the MSM republished the Post-ABC poll without an independent review to see if the poll’s results were...
