How Do You Put Lipstick On A Pig?
By Mitch Berg
Easy. Lie about how the pig has always had bright red lips.
That’s the tactic CD8 DFL candidate Jen Schultz is using to try to convince voters President Potato is somewhere north of worthless.
By picking numbers from the beginning of Reagan’s era, rather than, say, 1985, and assuming that people susceptible to voting for Jen Schultz either don’t remember the truth or are too intellectually bovine to question her.
As Berg’s 24th Law notes, it’s not a bad assumption.
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
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What’s not mentioned is that when Reagan took office, the inflation rate was about 18%, and the unemployment rate was between 7 & 8% when Reagan took office.
So in effect, it’s every bit as factual as President Biden’s claim that he’s the first person in his family to go to college, and as Sheila Jackson Lee’s claim that the moon is made of green cheese or gas or something.