This Has Been Another Edition of DON SURBER IS A FUCKING IDIOT

This is what gamers refer to as UB3R PWNAGE.

I find the whole blogs v. newspapers thing to be very overblown.

But let’s review.

As you recall, I once made a post where I was flat-out wrong. By the time I woke up the next morning, there were a dozen comments telling me so. And by noon, I had posted a correction and admitted my mistake. Hippie Killer made a doody. I’m not proud, but happens.

Now. Don Surber, professional newspaper columnist, writes a piece about how Canada’s violent crime rate is double United States’, and said piece is published in the second largest newspaper in the state. Within minutes, however, it becomes crystal that Surber’s entire column isn’t just bullshit, it’s flat out wrong.

And if that’s not enough, if you read the comments on Surb’s blog, you can see that he doesn’t even understand how or why he’s wrong (and that’s just in the comments Don lets through). A professional writer who is utterly incapable of comprehending a simple statistical chart. Jesus fucking Christ. I’ve said it before: if Don Surber worked at say, the Stamping Plant instead of an air conditioned office, and was this bad at his job, he’d lose his hand in a piece of machinery. But at least he’d be on disability.

This begs a question: IS THE DAILY MAIL EVEN FUCKING EDITED?

If Surber ran a column entitled “Nancy Pelosi is a Child Molesting Transexual Who Who Gives Money and Head to Bin Laden,” would they bother fact checking that?

Probably not.

And you know, there are plenty of people who work for the Daily Mail who are actual journalists, and care about being factually correct. Or at least not 100% wrong. Crap like this makes the people who actually do their jobs look bad.

I won’t be holding my breath for a correction. And why should I, when Don is too dense to realize he’s even wrong. Keep reachin’ for that Pulitzer, Daily Mail!!!