Monday, October 25, 2004

Apples and Oranges BIG MOTHEREFFING BOMBS

Josh Marshall gives us this little self-contradictory exchange from Our Dear Scotty:

"We've destroyed more than 243,000 munitions, we've secured another nearly 163,000 that will be destroyed."

Followed a few moments later by this ...

"And as I pointed out, that's why we've already destroyed more than 243,000 munitions and have another nearly 363,000 on line to be destroyed."


Aside from Scotty not remember which number he pulled out of his ass mere seconds before, we also need to point out that he's playing a little rhetorical game here. "X munitions" are not comparable to "Y tons of explosives."