FurfaxTownie Wrote:
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > Biden got pissed because the right wing whack
> job
> > "reporter" tried to imply that Biden called
> > Republicans rapists.
>
>
> Whack job or not his challenge on Biden's
> assertions with respect to the facts had merit.
>
> From the Washington Post-
>
> "Here’s what the FBI shows:
>
> 2008
> City of Flint: 32 murders, 103 rapes
>
> Surrounding area: 37 murders, 239 rapes
>
> RATE PER 100,000 INHABITANTS: murder, 8.6; rape
> 55.5
>
> 2009
> City of Flint: 36 murders, 91 rapes
>
> Surrounding area: 44 murders, 235 rapes
>
> RATE PER 100,000 INHABITANTS: murder, 10.3; rape,
> 55.1
>
> 2010
> City of Flint: 53 murders, 92 rapes
>
> Surrounding area: 58 murders, 225 rapes
>
> RATE PER 100,000 INHABITANTS: murder, 13.8; rape
> 53.7
>
> More important than the raw figures is the rate
> per 100,000 individuals. Murder did go up—though
> the rate did not double from 2009 to 2010, as
> Biden claimed. But rape has gone down. Biden
> actually asserted it had tripled."
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/p
> ost/bidens-absurd-claims-about-rising-rape-and-mur
> der-rates/2011/10/20/gIQAkq0y1L_blog.html
I agree Biden was wrong with what he said a little bit ago with the crime stats, but that's not what the guy asking the question in that video was talking about. He wasn't asking if he got the numbers wrong, I mean. He was asking about him using a "rape reference to describe Republican opposition to the president's bill." He certainly has never said "Republicans are raping America if they don't pass this bill.