Five Favorite Moonbat Stats Debunked
Normally the Christmas season is for giving, but sometimes it’s more fun to take things away. John Hawkins snatches from screaming liberals five of their favorite phony statistics by debunking them:
1) One in five college-age women have been raped. How do you create a “rape epidemic” that isn’t actually happening? Easy. You don’t ask women if they’ve been raped; you just expand the definition of rape so much that you define merely unpleasant events or worse yet, even consensual acts as rape. With rare exceptions, the entire so-called rape epidemic is moonbat propaganda that belongs on the Hate Hoax List.
2) Spousal abuse skyrockets on Super Bowl Sunday. This myth comes from misrepresentations made by liberals back in 1993. Libs may run the NFL, but they still hate football. Masculine aggression frightens them.
3) Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. If you get married at this point, especially to a college-educated woman over the age of 25, it’ll probably be for life. But destroying the family through corrosive propaganda has always been a high priority for progressive social engineers. Bringing us to…
4) Ten percent of the population is gay. Ten percent has been the number tossed around for a long time, but perhaps understandably, many people think the gay percentage of the population is even higher based on popular culture’s obsession with homosexuality. That obsession is agenda driven. The actual number may be under 2% — even smaller than the percentage of scientists liberals admit will risk their careers by refusing to play along with the global warming hoax:
5) Ninety seven percent of scientists agree that global warming is manmade and dangerous. How do you prove 97% of people agree with you? Find a tiny subset of a group that thinks just like you do and claim that it speaks for a much larger group of people. Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer did an excellent piece explaining how this works at the WSJ. Sometimes the line between hard spin and flat out lies is thin. But on the 97% lie, it is as broad as the Mississippi River.
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