Brian Williams failed math in the third grade. Hey, micro and ribit, he said he was a combat Marine, too.
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An MSNBC news anchor and pundit are being ridiculed after suggesting that Michael Bloomberg could have given every American a million dollars with the amount of money spent on his campaign.
While discussing Bloomberg’s huge investment in advertising campaigns throughout his 2020 Democratic-run, anchor Brian Williams discussed a tweet making the claim with a glaringly obvious mathematical calculation.
He suggested that because Bloomberg had spent $500 million on his campaign and there were 327 million people in America, he could have given each member of the population a million pounds with money to spare.
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$500 million divided by 327 million people would allow each person to take home around $1.53 each, a far stretch from a million dollars.
To be able to give a million dollars to 327 million people, Bloomberg’s campaign would have had to have cost $327 trillion.
Commenters are mocking the blunder, one user wrote: “Brian Williams just shared this on screen like it was accurate, and did it with enough confidence he had me pulling out a calculator and thinking *I* was tripping.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/msnbc-bloomberg-error-brian-williams-mara-gay-a9383741.html
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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