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four kinds of lies
Mark Twain said there are three kinds of falsehoods: lies, damned lies, and statistics. If he lived today, he'd add a fourth: political polls.
You can get polls to confirm any position you want to confirm. The fact that Greenwald relies so heavily on polls in all his "reporting" shows how truly bereft of (a) ideas and (b) facts he really is.
Pathetic, really.
-- Sic Semper Morannis
It wasn't Mark Twain. It was Benjamin Disraeli, although Twain popularized it in the U.S. Twain did say something like the quickest way to get a lie believed was to publish it in a newspaper. Orwell echoed that sentiment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics
Exit Polls are used to verify the legitimacy of free and fair democratic elections all over the free world because of their accuracy. Everywhere but except the U.S. but we left the free world some time ago.
What was in your brain when you decided to write that?
-- GlennGreenwald
A single free proton searching for as ideology of light in a dark and empty vaccum, perhaps?
