Trump recently Tweeted or said (I can't keep up with it anymore) that the most violent cities in the United States are all Democrat controlled, or something along those lines. I presume it was in response to the chaos that was happening during the riots and looting that was taking place during the "mostly peaceful protests" that were neither protests, nor peaceful.
Washington Post is the epitome of biased reporting as the continually fight for the number one spot with the New York Times. These two publications are the reason why less than 20% of Conservatives trust "The News" and less than 35% of all political affiliations do.
WaPo ran a headline that said "Trump says that the most violent cities in America are all Democrat controlled... They aren't" Then they proceed to show this graphic as a form of proof that the President is incorrect in his statement. This is meant to be some sort of fact check.
Take a passing glance at the graph ok? Blue indicates Democrat leadership, grey is Independent, and Red is Republican. When I looked at it initially I was thinking "Did WaPo just completely ignore the very graph that they are using to try to prove a point?" Did they even look at the graph? This graph clearly shows that what Trump was saying is actually true. You have to go down to number 17 to see the only Republican leader in the list of the top 20.
So are they trying to say that because Jacksonville is on the list that this somehow makes the President's statement untrue? I can assure you that the reason why they included 20 cities, instead of 5 or 10 is because they NEEDED to go that far in order to even find a Republican controlled city that is considered violent. It wouldn't surprise me if that date range they chose was also necessary to get Jacksonville on the list.
The fact that they would even publish this is a testament to the fact that they know that a lot of people aren't even going to read the article, they are just going to read the headline which probably came with a cherry-picked unflattering picture of El Presidente and move on assuming that the headline was the truth.
Here's a little thing I learned during the 18 months that I spend as an editor for my college newspaper that we gave away for free to students and had a weekly press of about 15,000 copies: When you are trying to make a point with a graphic, it's very important that said graphic actually backs up what you are trying to say.... not the opposite of what you are trying to say.
I don't expect much from the Washington Post because we all know what sort of conclusion they are going to come to no matter what it is they are talking about, but this, is just embarrassing, this is just stupid, this is just.....
