Your Daily Obama Gaffe: Hate Crimes Against Hispanics Have Doubled?
Where does Obama get that “hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year”–an alleged increase he blamed on “people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up”? The latest FBI statistics I can find are from 2006, not last year. They show about a 14% increase from 2005, by my calculation. Even the Southern Poverty Law Center only claims
According to hate crime statistics published annually by the FBI, anti-Latino hate crimes rose by almost 35% between 2003 and 2006, the latest year for which statistics are available.
A 35% increase over four years is not “doubled last year.”
In the taxonomy of Obama gaffes this is not a ‘misspoke’ gaffe (uncle liberating Auschwitz) or a dumb idea gaffe (no preconditions for meeting with Iran), but a ‘just making sh*t up that sounds good’ gaffe.
Don’t say he isn’t thorough.
Crossposted from Ken McCracken
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