New York Post: Clinton Directed Her Maid to Print Out Classified Materials

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There are over 90,000 full-time journalists in the U.S. We don’t know how many of them made campaign contributions. We can guess, and I choose to guess 100. Of these 100, 96 of them donated to Clinton, and 4 of them donated to Trump. That is entirely consistent with the facts. So I have 89,900 journalists who contributed to nobody, 96 who contributed to Clinton, and 4 who contributed to Trump. This is very different from your guess, that 90% of the 90,000, which is 81,000, contributed to Clinton. The difference between 96 and 81,000 is not splitting hairs. It is huge. Now, perhaps your point about media bias still stands, and in fact I am not arguing against that point. But if it does stand, it should stand on real facts and not mistaken ones.

If you choose to GUESS 100, then your assumption that 89,900 donated to no one is wrong. Which means the “difference between 96 and 81,000” is pointless.

 

[LeafByNiggle]

If you choose to GUESS 100, then your assumption that 89,900 donated to no one is wrong. Which means the “difference between 96 and 81,000” is pointless.

Of course I don’t really believe that. The point is, the statistic cited does not say how many reporters donated to campaigns. So if one person is going to guess that practically all of them did so, I can just as well guess that practically no one did so.