--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Also in their favor is that Euro-nations have not spent > > > > the decades since World War II spending literally *half* > > > > of their Gross National Product on "defense," which is > > > > a euphemism for both "Better ways to kill people," and > > > > "Subsidies for Defense Industries." America has. > > > [snip] > > > > > > Before you open your big, fat mouth about > > > things you know nothing about, why don't > > > you actually do some research? > > > > > > Show me one year since WWII when half of > > > the GDP was spent on "defense". For goodness > > > sake's, even with Obama's $3.8 trillion budget > > > this year (which includes defense as just one > > > category of spending, which is not even the > > > largest one) that only represents about 25% of > > > the entire GDP. > > > > What he's most likely thinking of is the stat > > that U.S. defense spending amounts to more > > than half of *global military spending*. > > > > > How does this guy spout off this stuff without > > > knowing what he is talking about? > > > > SOP for Barry. Back in February he made this > > startling claim: > > > > "Over half of the adult population of the U.S. > > is on a regular prescription for some kind of > > antidepressant." > > > > Of course it's nowhere *near* that high a > > percentage. Maybe he made the same mistake as > > he did with defense spending: maybe U.S. > > adults account for half the antidepressant > > prescriptions globally. > > > > As I keep saying, Barry just makes up the > > reality he'd *like* to have. > > > > (And of course he'll never admit to having > > been wrong on either of these.) > > > > What a loser. > > What's sad is that he could have made his point > without having to make up statistics.
Of course he could have. But he's such a loser, he doesn't have the confidence to let his points stand on their own. On the other hand, he's so *lazy* he can't be bothered with the Hard Work to look things up before he posts. What a pathetic combination. It's interesting, anchor Rich Sanchez on CNN yesterday responded to a claim made by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly about CNN that was embarrassingly wrong. What Sanchez said about O'Reilly is eerily descriptive of Barry: ----- SANCHEZ: All right. So let's see. Let's add this up together now. Ready? We led the story when it broke. We led with it again the next day. We analyzed the terrorism angle with experts, and called former FBI agents to take us through it. And as a network, we covered the story upteen times throughout the days, throughout all hours of those. But Bill O'Reilly says he only saw it once. And since he only saw it once, well then, that must be the truth. *It doesn't matter what really happened, it doesn't matter what the record shows. All that matters is what Bill thinks he saw.* [emphasis added] We called FOX today, by the way. No response yet. ----- Right down to Barry's inability to admit it when he's made a mistake. Barry "O'Reilly" Wright, Wrong Again.
