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Monday, April 17, 2023

The New York Times Story Didn't Say What Editors and Their Flying Monkeys Thought It Said.


Via Don Surber
 
The headline said, “A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts.

” OK, you don’t need a J-school degree to figure out the message sent. Not everyone in NYC is boosting $4,500 Louis Vuitton purses. It is just a few people.Whew. What a relief to know this.

The subheadline said, “Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in the city last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Businesses say they have little defense.”

You see? The looting is by just a few people.

The story said, “Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. Some engage in shoplifting as a trade, while others are driven by addiction or mental illness; the police did not identify the 327 people in the analysis.”

You see? They are just crazy or on drugs. That was the message NYT meant to send.

The story, however, is you can rob stores dozens of times and get away with it.

My question is why don’t more people in NYC just rob stores blind every day? I mean, come on people. If 327 people can get caught 6,000 times and get away with it, what is stopping 8 million people from looting Tiffany’s every morning and Macy’s every afternoon.

Maybe they are. Who knows how many New Yorkers steal and how many times they get away with it because the 327 people were just the ones the police caught. And the 6,000 arrests are just the times the 327 got caught.

Once again, NYT staffers throw a bunch of numbers around at random. You really cannot say, “A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts,” because the numbers reflect arrests, not crimes. And of course, there is the whole innocent-until-proven guilty thing that NYT conveniently forgets from time to time. - READ MORE

Friday, September 4, 2015

Can Republicans Write Off the Hispanic Vote Like Democrats did White Voters?


by Don Surber
Democratic President Lyndon Johnson wrote off the white votes for his party in the 1960s as he found a way to get minority votes: Civil rights and socialism -- er, the Great Society. He won the white vote in 1964, which was the last time Democrats suceeded at that.
Liberal Republicans in Washington say they don't want to lose the Hispanic vote but have done nothing to court it. In fact, after allowing President Obama to reverse 60 years of Cuban policy, Republicans wrote off the Cuban-American vote.
But a new poll shows Republicans can win by not pandering to Hispanics or any other group.
From the ABC-Washington Post poll, we find Donald Trump's favorable/unfavorable numbers have improved in two months from negative 28 in July to negative 22. The gain came from white people who went from negative 11 on Trump to negative 1 today. His non-white numbers went from negative 57 to negative 62.
Hillary Clinton meanwhile went from positive 7 to negative 8 -- a 15-point drop. Among white people, she went from negative 16 to negative 31 -- a 15-point drop. Meanwhile, Jeb! Bush's sucking up to Hispanics isn't working. He lost support among Hispanics going from positive 15 to negative 3.
To recap, sucking up to minorities meant an overall drop in their favorables of 15 points for Hillary and 18 points for Jeb!
Trump pounded the border and saw a 6-point improvement.
Hillary now stands at 45% favorable, 53% unfavorable. Trump is at 37%-59% . Jeb! is at 38-55%.
Finally, the Hispanic vote is tricky. Over time, light-skinned Hispanics may begin to identify themselves as white and dark-skinned Hispanics may begin to identify themselves as black.
Just remember, Obama needed 43% of the white vote to win in 2008. If 95% of black people can vote Democratic and not be called racist, then the same should hold true for Republicans.
Of course, liberal Republicans control Congress which explains why Obama is having the best final two years in a presidency since FDR.
(donsurber.blogspot.com)

Monday, December 22, 2014

Associated Press Reveals Agenda of the Year

Don Surber
The Associated Press selected "Police Killings of Blacks" as its top story of 2014, downplaying the historic sweep by Republicans of the elections (No. 4 story), and the de facto legalization of gay marriage by the courts (No. 9), and completely ignoring President Obama
Inflating the importance of two non-criminal homicides into the Story of the Year is another example of Associated Press reporters and editors pushing the liberal agenda rather than reporting the news.
The Associated Press was misleading in its summary of its "top story," writing:
POLICE KILLINGS: Some witnesses said 18-year-old Michael Brown had his hands up in surrender, others said he was making a charge. But there was no dispute he was unarmed and shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson. In New York City, another unarmed black, Eric Garner, was killed after a white officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest for unauthorized cigarette sales. After grand juries opted not to indict the officers, protests erupted across the country, punctuated by chants of "Hands up, don't shoot" and "I can't breathe." In both cases, federal officials launched investigations.
But the allegation that Michael Brown surrendered is based solely on the testimony of his accomplice. Physical evidence from three autopsies show that contention to be false. A more accurate summary would have said that.
And the real story is the riots and looting in the aftermath of misrepresentations of the Michael Brown killing, events which culminated this weekend in the executions by a black Muslim of an Asian-American police officer and a Hispanic police officer in New York City in an act of vengeance. 
If we are going to make this the story of the year -- and it is not -- then we are obligated to focus on the actual story: 
The riots and lawlessness.
To be sure, I have my agenda and biases, but I do not pretend to be an objective news organization.