Originally Posted by direstraits:
To quote Prime Minister Disraeli, "there are three types of lies -- lies, dammed lies and statistics." To be fair, while some progressives are good at cooking the books, most are math deficient. Its like teaching a pig to read,
." However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Other coiners have therefore been proposed, and the phrase is often attributed to Twain himself.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...lies,_and_statistics