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Selective reality
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I'm all for knocking down Vance for saying obviously non-factual shit, but this is a terrible example. He's not looking at any pricetags there except the ones behind him on the right (his left), very briefly, which are all, actually, around $4. He's shooting from the hip and uses the realistic price that came to mind and may even be the average price where he lives.
There's lots better examples. This isn't one.
Yeah man, the high profile person in a situation that was easy to rehearse and hard to fuck up definitely just misspoke in a way that affirmed his beliefs and spread misinformation to millions of Americans, strengthening his team's claim to the throne.
It was totally benign and nothing negative happened recently that was directly tied to misinformation like this.
The dude legit said he will manufacture outrage as much as necessary. I'm not denying that.
He looks over his left immediately before he says that, where there are pricetags for $4/dozen. Even one for $5.
He's not wrong, he's not even hyperbolic.
If you're looking for an example of misinformation...I guess you could call this that, but there are far more egregious examples.
I wouldn't consider this an example of deliberate misinformation, though. I think it's petty to say so, and I think that it hurts your cause if you're saying "hurr durr he's lying about eggs being $4/dozen" when there are literally $4 eggs behind him.
But he didn't say "these eggs are $4 a dozen" did he? He said "the average price of eggs is $4 a dozen."
A high profile person made an unsubstantiated claim in front of millions Americans and they ate it up. They believed what he said, not what he meant, even if it was a mistake