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This is what passes for “political analysis” in the media elite.
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ABC News Chief Political Analyst Caught Pushing Fake Terrorism Claim
By Patrick Poole, PJMedia, October 9, 2017:
Statistics are apparently hard to understand if you’re part of the media cartel talking about terrorism, because, as I’ve reported many times here at PJ Media, they keep getting it wrong.
Today’s contestant is Matthew Dowd, chief political analyst at ABC News, who on Twitter yesterday made this astounding claim:
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/917111855167963136
This claim, that more were killed in the Las Vegas shooting last week than by Islamic terrorists over the past decade, is flatly untrue, as I’ll show you in a minute.
But when people began to push back on his false claim, he asserted it was a fact (!!!) and then repeated the claim:
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/917137686309175296
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/917137772409896960
Then he doubled down yet again with insults directed towards those challenging his false claim:
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/917136218348863488
In fact, it is Dowd who is factually challenged. As New America documents, Islamic terrorists have killed nearly 100 people in the U.S. since 9/11, most of those within the past decade:
The number of deaths at the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre by self-avowed ISIS devotee Omar Mateen in June 2016 was 49.
The fatalities from just those two Islamic terror attacks (63) within the past two years are more than the victims of last week’s massacre in Las Vegas (59).
There’s just no way to spin Dowd’s claim for it to remotely be true.
And it gets worse:
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/917363377445363712
As the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal terror tracker chronicles, there have been 97 Islamic terror attacks and plots in the U.S. since 9/11:
As I’ve noted repeatedly, the media cartel keeps getting basic facts wrong about Islamic terrorism in America. In August, CBS News host Norah O’Donnell was pushing vastly inflated terrorism stats to falsely claim that so-called “right wing” terrorism was more deadly than Islamic terrorism:
As I noted, the highly suspect terrorism database O’Donnell cited includes Neo-Nazis killing pedophiles in prison:
None of these cases actually involved terrorism charges. Neither did many others in the GAO dataset.
But there was something more peculiar about O’Donnell’s claim.
Even the inflated GAO dataset admitted that Islamic terrorists had killed more than so-called “right wing” domestic terrorists, as their own graphic showed:
So how did she conclude that “right wing” terrorism was deadlier than Islamic terrorism? Not by counting the actual number of fatalities — but by counting the number of “incidents.”
As I noted previously, the media has tried repeatedly to downplay the extent of Islamic terrorism by utilizing the analytically useless “incidents” measure. Meanwhile, they whitewash the fact that Islamic terrorists still have killed more than the so-called “right wing”
FACT CHECK: 94 Percent of U.S. Terrorism Fatalities Are Caused by Islamic Terrorists https://t.co/zeHiSQdEIg via @PJMedia_com
— Patrick Poole (@pspoole) October 8, 2017
After the Pulse nightclub killings, I noted that at the time Islamic terror deaths had nearly doubled those of the “right wing”:
FACT CHECK: Islamic Terrorists Have Killed More In Domestic Attacks Since 9/11 Than the 'Ri… https://t.co/I895dZkT3r #homelandsecurity
— PJ Media (@PJMedia_com) August 18, 2016
It needs to be pointed out, but virtually all of these stats cited by the media begin their counts on September 12, 2001 — thereby excluding those Americans killed on 9/11.
At the current rate, it will take the “right wing” several more centuries just to catch up with the 3,000 fatalities of that one Islamic terror attack.
Why does the media cartel continue to beclown itself when talking about Islamic terrorism?
Well, narratives don’t push themselves.
UPDATE: It seems that Dowd is now backing off his bogus claim.
I’m blocked by Dowd on Twitter, so someone just pointed this out to me.
He stated several times that he was talking about “deaths,” with no mention of “casualties.”
But rather than admit that he was flatly wrong and apologize to those he mocked who were trying to correct him, he retreats to the “here is what I should have said to be more clear … “
In fact, he was clear. He specifically claimed “deaths,” not “casualties.” He was wrong, but now won’t admit it.
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26 Comments
6 years ago
Does ANYONE
expect the truth from ABC ?
I can’t remember the last time they reported
UNBIASED anything.
I can’t remember the last time they reported
ANYTHING
that was not
EDITORIALIZED
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6 years ago
Of course, Matthew Dowd is evil. No one in power can be that stupid. Matthew Dowd is just arrogantly repeating his narrative..
6 years ago
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Underzog
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6 years ago
Odd,…. he left out the 3,000 Americans killed on 9-11-2001 !
I guess those “little Eichmanns” don’t count ?!
6 years ago
Left/Liberal pro-jihadi loons will always lie to brainwash public. Its upto patriots to counter it with truth like this http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
That is one way to counter them. Another is to hound them out of govt / public posts for aiding , abetting islamic jihadis. ….or sue them for jihadi attacks for supporting them.
6 years ago
abc and the rest of the lame stream media are all liars, they present news for complete non thinking drones who couldn’t care less as to what is said, as they have the tv on for background noise so as not to be interrupted by an original thought. All news analysis’s are doing is regurgitating mindless drivel for the sake of hearing themselves talk. In essence they are stupid, mere space fillers between commercials.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I turn the TV on for background, but no longer turn on anything but music channels. I refuse to watch the bubble heads and have refused for a long time. There are a few programs I enjoy, but not many….and none of them are pundits….just entertainment.
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
That is all it is good for, the banal ignorance of the talk shows is enough to drive flies off a fish.
6 years ago
I guess that the only solution is to ignore the liars. I actually rarely watch the news and when I actually see some truth I am more shocked. All leftists are liars. Many only lie because they are ignorant and ignorant of it, but those who lie to conceal or obfuscate and do so in the MSM should be charged with a crime as they are debasing their position. In my world those leftists who have abused their position would be gaoled.
6 years ago
TYPICAL infantile lieberal. Only emotion counts. How he feels about whitey at the moment matters more to him then the facts of all Moslem violence.
Obviously, the man hates WHITEY. But for the mongrel – WELCOME MOSLEM!
Everything here is yours for the taking (not my stuff, of course) but you may maim, kill, rape and raid the other whitey’s stuff. Remember, I work for YOU!
6 years ago
Trump should throw 95% of the MSM in prison for working for the various terrorist groups working in America! BLM, Antifa, Black Panthers, Muslim Brotherhood, Nation of Islam, CAIR, ETC.
6 years ago
Pamela the only Pubic touch missing is the name for each grieving parent and sibling so Mr Dowd can contact them to get there take on his comenrts he made. Based on the Update Pamela you could do a easily eat Dowd for lunch. It seems he’s nervous about what what you know and he doesn’t know.
6 years ago
I GUESS HE JUST FORGOT THE 1500 IRAQI POLICE AND SOLDIERS THAT THE ISIS BEHEADED IN MOSUL IRAQ WHEN THEY TOOK THE CITY A FEW YEARS AGO , OR THE WOMEN AND GIRLS THAT HAVE BEEN CAGED LIKE ANIMALS THEN BURNED TO DEATH . OR THE MASSIVE DEATHS IN PARIS FRANCE AT THE CONCERT WHERE 132 PEOPLE WERE MACHINE GUNNED TO DEATH JUST A FEW YEARS AGO BY ATTACKERS SCREAMING ALAHU AKBAR !!!.
6 years ago
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
It was only “workplace violence” right? That is about the time I quit watching the news media I think. Never did watch/listen to odamits speeches.
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6 years ago
I am sure Matthew believes what he is saying, false and skewed as it is. We have allowed leftist liberals to control our universities for decades, and they have in turn indoctrinated the unionized public school teachers. We have a generation of Gen-xers and millennials who do not know how to think for themselves as free people, they have politically correct boogeymen and words limiting their range of vision. They have been brought up in fear of offending anyone and they are emotionally compelled to find feel good answers for problems.
6 years ago
The root cause of all of this is the fact that Donald Trump was legally elected president of the United States of America, and these whining snowflakes have yet to get over it, even though a year has passed since the election.
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The media will NEVER understand why he was elected, and will NEVER accept his election
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Moral? move on and forget about the media – their time has passed and most Americans realize they are not news reporters, but rather agenda driven lunatics
D
6 years ago
Matt & all the others get paid Well! to push this narrative…
Do what ure boss wants or find another job!
6 years ago
The answer to they question is easy they are part of the propaganda media so they are stupid, but what really bothers me is they think everyone is as stupid as them, and there are some.
