Prostates and Prejudices

Let's start with the facts: Mr. Giuliani's claim is wrong on multiple levels -- bogus numbers wrapped in an invalid comparison embedded in a smear.

Mr. Giuliani got his numbers from a recent article in City Journal, a publication of the conservative Manhattan Institute. The author gave no source for his numbers on five-year survival rates -- the probability that someone diagnosed with prostate cancer would still be alive five years after the ... Full Story »

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Christpher Vaughan
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by Christpher Vaughan - Oct. 1, 2008

PK is spot-on as usual. Giuliani is an easy target because he lies so frequentky and can be caught at it, but the real value is in pointing out how bad U.S. political coverage is of such "errors" (=strategic falsehoods blithely offered in the belief that in the end, they will be widely accepted as mere misstatements, in the unlikely event they are flagged at all). BTW, did anyone catch the actual words Rude-y had just spoken when his cell phone went off during his NRA speech? he was qyuoting the Fourth Amendment, not the Second, and undoubtedly was being stopped by an aide, who he pretended was his wife in a "cute" maneuver that got no hard, critical coverage that I saw in any mainstream media -- another example of Giuliani's soft ride with the press. Here, PK wisely broadens the focus to show how the syndrome is widespread.

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