MSNBC's Brian Williams is very bad at math

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/06/msnbcs-brian-williams-is-ver.html

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What’s the big deal? $327, $327 million… Who notices such a minor difference? /s

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“Go fuck yourself, San Diego”

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No, I am very bad at math, but even I can see how that is wrong.

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yikes

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it is an incredible way of putting it; I can’t credit it at all.

Now, if we were to divide Bloomberg’s entire $58.4 billion among the 327 million of us, we would all get $178K.

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Jesus Christ, I’m an idiot and I know that doesn’t add up.

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What alternate universe do I need to visit to have my $1.52 magically become $1,000,000?

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I really can’t tell if you are joking or not. Well played.
(but someone is going to believe you)

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So you don’t have to click through to the dumpster fire that is Twitter, here’s what the tweet said:

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Math is math? No - it’s arithmetic! :wink:

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Did anyone ever think that maybe they are only considering about 500 people to be “real” Americans?

“The quality of Democracy and the quality of Journalism are deeply intertwined.” - Bill Moyers

Well… it was fun while it lasted.

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Somehow that GIF makes me think of Cartesian coordinates rather than arithmatic.

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Maybe they were just counting people who supported Bloomberg.

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thank you for this. I really wish posts would stop making going to twitter a requirement for information than can easily be conveyed without it

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This is all just a simple typo. Mike Bloomberg spend $327 trillion on ads.

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I dunno, I see Riemann here :slight_smile:

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ROFL
Also, where did he pull the word “lunch” from???
Tweet didn’t say anything about “lunch money”…

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