You can always count on some of the empty-headed parrots in the entertainment field to greedily devour whatever the liberals tell them is true, and then spew it out to their fawning, witless fans. Case in point: Bette Midler showered her more than half a million followers with the debunked statistic that President Obama keeps repeating in order to revive his midterm election hopes:
YES! Women still earn $.77 for every dollar men earn. @Obama: "We all love Mad Men, but we don't have to live like we're in Mad Men!"
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) April 9, 2014
Not so fast, Bette! While Obama’s propaganda might be the wind beneath your wings, not everyone is so gullible:
https://twitter.com/welldoneson/status/453716651913924608
https://twitter.com/NoahWehrman/status/453718225591619584
@BetteMidler @BarackObama the #s are flawed and a myth, it's hypocritical of him https://t.co/OXWeXqScJI
— johanna (@johannaihli) April 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/453721769480691712
No, debunked. By the White House: http://t.co/9IqebC1zki RT @BetteMidler: YES! Women still earn $.77 for every dollar men earn.
— Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) April 9, 2014
Even Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler seemed a little skeptical of the pay-gap argument in 2012, although in the end he awarded the White House only one Pinocchio(!):
The gap is even smaller when you look at hourly wages — it is 86 cents vs. 100 (see Table 9) — but then not every wage earner is paid on an hourly basis, so that statistic excludes salaried workers. But, under this metric for people with a college degree, there is virtually no pay gap at all.
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By all accounts, there is a wage gap, but it has declined over the decades — and depending on how the data are viewed, in some cases it barely exists.
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Since Obama continues to push the discredited statistic (and his luck), Kessler put out a new rating this morning: two Pinocchios.
New #FactChecker: Obama's persistent claim '77-cent' claim on the wage gap gets a new Pinocchio rating. http://t.co/ezP9r5794Z
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 9, 2014
Bottom line? It appears that Bette knows as much about economics as she does history and climatology.
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