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MSNBC’s Brian Williams and NYT's Mara Gay assert that $500 million could be divvied up to give 327 million people exactly $1 million each

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March 07, 2020, 10:13 AM
Balzé Halzé
MSNBC’s Brian Williams and NYT's Mara Gay assert that $500 million could be divvied up to give 327 million people exactly $1 million each
Yeah, this really happened. Idiots.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/B_4VYBgTatY


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March 07, 2020, 10:17 AM
egregore
I could sure use $1.53, even if it is "crumbs."
March 07, 2020, 10:18 AM
darthfuster
Why is Williams still on the air?



You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
March 07, 2020, 10:19 AM
Scuba Steve Sig
I'm surprised he didn't buy $500 million in guns and then destroyed them!
March 07, 2020, 10:19 AM
chellim1
As discussed yesterday in the Bloomberg thread:

quote:
Are they smarter than a fifth grader?

Leftist math:

Thursday on MSNBC's "The Eleventh Hour" with Brian Williams, New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay and the host accepted without question a tweet that (jokingly) said that Michael Bloomberg could have given every American one million dollars with the five hundred million dollars he spent on his short-lived presidential campaign.

"When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear," Williams said.

The tweet read: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over."

"It’s an incredible way of putting it," Williams said.

"It’s an incredible way of putting it," Gay said. "It’s true. It’s disturbing."

In reality, $500 million divided by 327 million Americans is about $1.53 per person.



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March 07, 2020, 10:20 AM
Scuba Steve Sig
quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster:
Why is Williams still on the air?


He was there counting the money.
March 07, 2020, 10:23 AM
sigfreund
We heard:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...480052764#2480052764

The Wall Street Journal, however, is now stating that his campaign actually cost $620M, so that would have been about $1.90 for each of us. Wink

https://www.wsj.com/articles/m...j&mod=&mod=djemITP_h




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March 07, 2020, 10:26 AM
Krazeehorse
I would pay $1.90 to make him go away.


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March 07, 2020, 10:27 AM
tanner
quote:
Leftist math.


Sure goes a long to explain vote counts in Iowa and California. Coming to a presidential election near you.



March 07, 2020, 10:41 AM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
I could sure use $1.53, even if it is "crumbs."


To be fair, that's probably not bad if you live in Cuba.


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March 07, 2020, 10:42 AM
erj_pilot
So has MSNBHeeHaw (credit: Larry Elder) and/or Brian Williams and/or Mara Gay had the nut sack to publicly correct their obvious math error? Or are they too chicken to appear like the dumbasses and weak-spined humanoids they really are?



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March 07, 2020, 11:12 AM
joel9507
And some say there's no such thing as fake news. Roll Eyes
March 07, 2020, 11:24 AM
LoungeChair
Wow. You have to admit, it is truly amazing when put into those terms. It’s just that it’s not the same amazing that those idiots are thinking of.


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March 07, 2020, 11:26 AM
radioman
Well, Biden claimed that half of the USA population was shot to death over the last decade or so.


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March 07, 2020, 11:36 AM
StarTraveler
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot:
So has MSNBHeeHaw (credit: Larry Elder) and/or Brian Williams and/or Mara Gay had the nut sack to publicly correct their obvious math error? Or are they too chicken to appear like the dumbasses and weak-spined humanoids they really are?


As soon as they said it, people started correcting them (and making fun of them) on social media. Someone working on the show got out a calculator and Williams and the NYT guest acknowledged their boo-boo after the next commercial break, joking about how neither of them had been good in math in high school.

They still aren't very good with math or common sense if you ask me.


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March 07, 2020, 11:38 AM
senza nome
quote:
Originally posted by radioman:
Well, Biden claimed that half of the USA population was shot to death over the last decade or so.


... in which case we get $3.80, right?
March 07, 2020, 11:43 AM
TXJIM
"Don't say anything if you are ahead of us on the math here..." whooo boy Razz


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March 07, 2020, 11:43 AM
TSE
quote:
Originally posted by StarTraveler:
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot:
So has MSNBHeeHaw (credit: Larry Elder) and/or Brian Williams and/or Mara Gay had the nut sack to publicly correct their obvious math error? Or are they too chicken to appear like the dumbasses and weak-spined humanoids they really are?


As soon as they said it, people started correcting them (and making fun of them) on social media. Someone working on the show got out a calculator and Williams and the NYT guest acknowledged their boo-boo after the next commercial break, joking about how neither of them had been good in math in high school.

They still aren't very good with math or common sense if you ask me.


It says alot that a calculator was needed. Really $500 million and 327 Million people. The millions are present in both nominator and denominator and cancel themselves out. Anyone with a grade school education should be able to at least estimate the answer at just over one dollar.


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March 07, 2020, 11:45 AM
WCCPHD
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but I wound up here
I just have to look good,
I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry"
March 07, 2020, 11:48 AM
mrmn50
quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster:
Why is Williams still on the air?


To teach us addiffshuns.