Changing the Subject | Round 2
An update to last week’s MMMM, thanks to several readers. Here’s what I said:
Huckabee’s answer was characterized by several pundits as evidence he doesn’t know enough about foreign affairs to be president – although I didn’t see anyone challenging the accuracy of his comment about the number Pakistani’s sneaking into our country. I have no idea if he’s right.
Well, it turns out Huckabee got it wrong, very wrong — as Steve Lang points out in the comment he posted on the MMMM Blog and as several others pointed out in e-mails to me. Thank you all.
Here’s a link showing the real figures, provided by Jonathan Bernstein of Bernstein Crisis Management.
Here’s the bottom line: Assuming he doesn’t know enough about what’s happening in Pakistan to comment intelligently on the situation there, Huckabee did the right thing by changing the subject. But he blew it by making up an answer that wasn’t even close to being true. And I should have done a little more research so I could have called him on the inaccuracy the first time around.
– Jerry