Bloomberg Busted in Huge Lie About Soda Ban
[High Praise! to Son of Bob]
Liberals can’t keep their damn math straight. Especially when it doesn’t serve their propaganda purposes.
Here’s the Size/Calorie/Sugar infographic from Bloomberg’s Facebook page:
Just at a glance, those figures seem odd, since doubling the size from 32oz to 64oz should make the calories 748, not 780.
Well, I crunched some numbers on a spreadsheet:
Basically they reduced the numbers for the 16oz drink to make it seem like a wise top-end cup size, used the correct number again on the 32oz, and then jacked up the numbers for the 64oz to make it seem more egregious.
So either someone at the Mayor’s office is abominable at simple math, or Bloomberg knows it’s a big, stinking lie, and just doesn’t give a damn.
Either way, I’m calling shenanigans.
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UPDATE: Linked by MichelleMalkin.com.
UPDATE: Linked by Doug Ross
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June 6th, 2012 at 8:45 am
You are so Attackwatched, mister.
June 6th, 2012 at 9:46 am
If the trend was always up or always down, then I could see a plausible argument. For example, if people tend to put a larger fraction of ice in the cup when the sizes are larger, then the calories per ounce will go down. Or if they put a smaller fraction of ice, the calories per ounce would go up.
But yeah, not down THEN up again. Shenanigans.
June 6th, 2012 at 11:32 am
Maths: How does it freakin’ work?
June 6th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
I am just going to drink four 16 oz servings instead of one 64 oz. Now I will never get fat.
June 6th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Q. How can you tell a politician is lying?
A.
His mouth is movingHe posted on the interwebzJune 6th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
102 x 2 = 217 EVERYONE knows that!!! If you’re dumb enough to spend $5 on a 64 oz cup of ice with about 4 ounces of whatever in it, the sooner you die, the better but remember, when the government tells welfare leeches what they can and can’t buy with other people’s money (which they refuse to do) it’s raaaacist and a violation of their ‘rights’ etc etc but it’s ok for this clown to tell the ones who work what they can and can’t buy with their own money. Doesn’t this mean they want all the “poor” people to be fat? Oh wait, they already are.
June 6th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Fat poor people #FirstWorldProblems
June 7th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Also, when you fill up a cup, it’s loaded at least halfway with ice. I bet these are calorie and sugar counts that consider the cup filled to the rim with warm soda. Who does that? If I’m right, you can probably cut these numbers in half because of the ice factor.
June 7th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
baltbuc – better question: who the hell sells soda in 7oz cups?
June 15th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
[...] away anybody’s right to do things,” Bloomberg said in defense of his draconian and poorly calculated cup-size restriction, “we’re simply forcing you to understand that you have to make the [...]
June 15th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
8 oz of Coke Classic has 97 calories (http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-coca-cola-classic-i98047) so there is no ice involved. That’s 12.125 cal/oz making the sizes above:
7 – 85 C
12 – 146 C
16 – 194 C
32 – 388 C
64 – 776 C
July 14th, 2012 at 9:23 am
“If you’re dumb enough to spend $5 on a 64 oz cup of ice with about 4 ounces of whatever in it”
That was one of my thrifty-Scotch-Irish Dad’s obsessions. He always demanded that we order our sodas without ice because: “That’s how they get you!” Of course, the tradeoff is that you end up with warm, flat soda, or pop, depending on what time zone you reside.