{"id":37564,"date":"2017-03-06T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37564"},"modified":"2017-03-05T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:13:16","slug":"what-could-possibly-account-for-that-growth-statistical-fakery-so-fake-that-a-vegas-bookie-would-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/what-could-possibly-account-for-that-growth-statistical-fakery-so-fake-that-a-vegas-bookie-would-weep\/","title":{"rendered":"“What could possibly account for that growth? Statistical fakery so fake that a Vegas bookie would weep”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Greenfield<\/a> on how to hoax the media into reporting on a burgeoning anti-Muslim movement in the United States:<\/p>\n

\u201cHuge Growth in Anti-Muslim Hate Groups During 2016: SPLC Report,\u201d wails NBC News. \u201cWatchdog: Number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015,\u201d FOX News bleats. ABC News vomits up this word salad. \u201cTrump cited in report finding increase in US hate groups for 2nd year in a row.\u201d <\/p>\n

The SPLC stands for the Southern Poverty Law Center: an organization with slightly less credibility than Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and without the academic degree in greasepaint. <\/p>\n

And you won\u2019t believe the shameless way the SPLC faked its latest Islamophobia crisis. <\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s latest \u201chate group\u201d sightings claims that the \u201cnumber of anti-Muslim hate groups increased almost three-fold in 2016.\u201d <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of folds. <\/p>\n

And there is both bad news and good news from its \u201cYear in Hate and Extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n

First the good news. <\/p>\n

Casa D\u2019Ice Signs, the sign outside a bar in K-Mart Plaza in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is no longer listed as a hate group. The sign outside the bar had been listed as a hate group by the SPLC for years. The owner of Casa D\u2019Ice had been known for putting politically incorrect signs outside his bar. So the SPLC listed the \u201csigns\u201d as a hate group. (Even though there was only one sign.) Not the bar. That would have made too much sense. <\/p>\n

Since then Casa D\u2019Ice was sold and the SPLC has celebrated the defeat of another hate group. Even if the hate group was just a plastic sign outside a bar. <\/p>\n

But the bad news, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is that anti-Muslim hate groups shot up from only 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016. <\/p>\n

What could possibly account for that growth? Statistical fakery so fake that a Vegas bookie would weep. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Greenfield on how to hoax the media into reporting on a burgeoning anti-Muslim movement in the United States: \u201cHuge Growth in Anti-Muslim Hate Groups During 2016: SPLC Report,\u201d wails NBC News. \u201cWatchdog: Number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015,\u201d FOX News bleats. ABC News vomits up this word salad. \u201cTrump cited in report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,11,13],"tags":[1085,47,355,269,101],"class_list":["post-37564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-religion","category-usa","tag-fakenews","tag-islam","tag-prejudice","tag-propaganda","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9LS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37565,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions\/37565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}