gbaji wrote:
Interesting bit about the Ryan tweet. I don't follow the guy, so I have no clue what the context was, but it's interesting that his tweet was a direct quote from this article. My suspicion is that he (or, more likely his staff), just quoted every paragraph in the article that listed a person and their savings. Of course, if you ignore the two bracketing examples of 200 dollar a month savings and just look at the $1.50 a week one in the middle, it might look a bit weird.
Very easy to cherry pick one tweet in a set and make it look like something it's not. I'd be shocked if out of the list of examples in that article, he actually chose to include just the one that was smallest, so I'm going with "series of tweets quoting savings from the article, and folks decided to jump on one of them" angle. But hey. Let's not look at the whole picture here when we can zero in on the outliers.
Very easy to cherry pick one tweet in a set and make it look like something it's not. I'd be shocked if out of the list of examples in that article, he actually chose to include just the one that was smallest, so I'm going with "series of tweets quoting savings from the article, and folks decided to jump on one of them" angle. But hey. Let's not look at the whole picture here when we can zero in on the outliers.
This is all covered in the YouTube video I posted, how the only paragraph quoted was her statement, which she thought was odd, because of the two bracketing examples, leaving her to suspect that he didn't read the full article.