Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Crazy Stat
Mary Anastasia O'Grady wrote a column yesterday (again, thanks to the Mexico Institute) that listed the number of executed in drug violence in 2008 at 6,600. That's about 1,000 higher than any other number I'd seen. She says it came from the attorney general, but if you google "procuraduría 6,600 asesinados mexico 2008", no corroborating info comes up. In fact, this article places the attorney general figure for 2008 at 5,600, not 6,600. I've got fat fingers, so I make such mistakes occasionally, but isn't that what fact-checkers are for? In any event, that's a convenient mistake to make if your goal is to show that Mexico is going to hell in a hand basket.
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Yeah, um...have you ever read an O'Grady column before? They're fact-free zones, though that's far less important than their batshit insanity. Taking a shot at an O'Grady column is easier than launching a gancho into Antonio Margarito's head in the seventh round the other evening. She makes Andres Oppenheimer look like Eduardo Galeano. Not to say she shouldn't be corrected - she should - but you might wanna consider adding a standard O'Grady disclaimer as well.
I'm not a regular reader. Nor does this article encourage me to become one.
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