The DNC New Math: When 1 Equals 3… Must Be Taking Math Pointers from Math-Deficient Katie Couric
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 3, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Is CBS anchor Katie Couric sharing her wacky “jelly bean economy” idea with the folks at the DNC?
Because, while POTUS and the missus are frolicking through France, bashing Bush and apologizing for liberating Iraq, and while Congress stealthily passed the granddaddy-porkulus-of-all-porkulus budgets in the dead of night, the Democrat National Party was caught with bold-faced lying.
Er, uh, must be just an honest mistake, like when Treasury Secretary Tim “Lying Pinocchio Tax Cheat” Geithner didn’t file his income taxes and when he did, he used absurd excuses for many of his deductions. But, Obama stands behind him because it could happen to anyone, even the guy now in charge of the IRS. Yeah, right…
CBS News Anchor Katie Couric needs refresher in basic economic principles and needs to stop telling DNC how to count petition signatures
Seems the DNC released a statement this week that they had collected 642,000 signatures of pledges from across America in support of Obama’s massive trillion-dollar-porkulus budget. Bless their hearts, they were so proud that so many people supported the budget, they even wrote about it at the DNC blog. Proud as proud can be… except that those crafty Democrats phonied up the numbers. By a few hundred thousand.
Oops.
From Fox News:
Democrats descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday to deliver hundreds of thousands of pledges from across the country in support of President Obama’s budget. The signatures were harvested during a massive effort to tap the president’s huge e-mail list and capitalize on a 50-state, door-to-door campaign.
The official DNC release read, “Supporters of President Obama’s budget to hand deliver 642,000 pledges….” CNN and the Huffington Post reported the DNC’s claim. But the truth is somewhat more complicated.
The president’s e-mail list of 13-million resulted in just 114,000 individual pledges — a response rate of less than 1 percent. Party workers secured another 100,000 signatures by hitting the streets. The DNC arrived at its 642,000 figure by making three photocopies of each petition so that every signer’s senators and representative could get one.
DNC spokesperson Natalie Wyeth responded: “This effort was designed to give our supporters the tools to influence their elected officials. Of course, we delivered a pledge to each of their members of Congress — 642,000 pledges. That’s what we said we were delivering and that’s what we did.”
When asked about the impression in the DNC press release that there were 642,000 unique pledges, she offered no response.
Another Fox News release – we’re including Fox News twice to make it seem like we have double the corroborating news sources (Fox is the only one we could find reporting this, but that’s OK per the DNC New Math). Similar story below, but with a few additional points uncovered:
Democratic Organizers Embellish Petition Backing Obama Budget
Obama supporters made three copies of the petitions they brought to the Capitol Wednesday, distorting the actual number they claim to have collected in support of the president’s budget.
By Trish TurnerOrganizers of a petition in support of President Obama’s budget plan say they brought more than 640,000 petitions to the Capitol Wednesday, but the number of unique petitions delivered fell considerably short of the reported figure.
Lawmakers are voting on a $3.6 trillion-dollar budget which has drawn fire from both Republicans and some Democrats concerned over the ballooning deficit.
Democrats fired up their campaign machine several weeks ago to trumpet Obama’s budget request, working with the president to tap the grassroots that Obama reached during his campaign.
Obama taped a Web-based appeal under the New Foundation for Growth banner, and Democrats asked 13 million of his supporters to sign a petition backing his spending plan.
But petition collectors actually got 114,000 signatures off the e-mail request, and another 100,000 from street signatures, FOX News has confirmed. Democrats then made three copies of each petition.
“That’s less than 1 percent of their vaunted e-mail list. That’s not a high rate of return,” one senior Senate GOP leadership aide told FOX News.
“Every major news organization covered their event two Saturdays ago. They had the president do a Web video. They did training videos,” the GOP aide added. “But more people wrote in to ask marijuana questions at the online forum at the White House.”
The DNC, however, stands by its number.
“This effort was designed to give our supporters the tools to influence their elected officials,” said DNC spokeswoman Natalie Wyeth. “Of course we delivered a pledge to each of their members of Congress — 642,000 pledges. That’s what we said we were delivering and that’s what we did.”
When asked if she disputed that only a third of 642,000 unique petitions were delivered, Wyeth did not respond.
You gotta love it… Katie Couric wants to give everyone at the DNC a lovely little jelly bean about now. And when she gives you one jelly bean, you must state that it is actually three. Government waste is funny like that.
It’s also the DNC New Math.
Gateway Pundit: Busted!… Democrats Fudge Petition Numbers
Michelle Malkin: The $3.6 trillion midnight spending spree
Timothy Sexton, Associated Content: Why Katie Couric Should Not Have Been Chosen to Become the New Anchor of CBS Evening News
Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day
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