https://twitter.com/jrsalzman/status/852585843361554432
Earlier today, the U.S. military dropped the “mother of all bombs,” or MOAB, on ISIS positions in Afghanistan. But ThinkProgress justice editor Ian Millhiser’s tweet about it may have been an even bigger bomb:
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/852583241462755328
That’s news to us, Ian!
https://twitter.com/Old_Gows/status/852577698392064000
$16 million for one. $314 million is the total production cost.
— Steven (@llllSMSllll) April 13, 2017
Unit cost is $16M
— Matt Baker (@mattwbaker) April 13, 2017
This isn't anywhere close to correct. A single one costs $14-16 million. https://t.co/Zum1pxSSwk
— Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) April 13, 2017
This is a lie. The total cost of all MOAB's is 314 million including the production. 1 bomb cost 16 million! Get your facts straight
— James Hardy (@JSteevenh) April 13, 2017
Math is hard @imillhiser pic.twitter.com/Ck9AAKzCZm
— Zac Tonnis (@ZacTonnis) April 13, 2017
As others have noted, your figure is wrong. You should probably delete the Tweet
— Nathan James (@natedogg213) April 13, 2017
Oh, he did. And then he tried to play it cool:
Actually it's $16 Million for one, the total production was $314 million. https://t.co/cgGPQ9nKVi
— Austin Unger (@austin_unger19) April 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/852581242914709504
Unfortunately for him, it was too late. Twitter is forever, and all that jazz.
If dropping 575 elementary school teachers on those tunnels is more effective than the MOAB I'm all for it.
— ßlð¢k¢håïñ Måïmê (@maimecat) April 13, 2017
I suspect a MOAB is more effective. How many schoolteachers does it take to make a hole of equal size? https://t.co/R7TaL5HCzL
— Dead Agent (@Recursion_Agent) April 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/852579184073420800
https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/852582827011002368
@imillhiser when you tweet false cost analysis and attempt to back track by deleting the tweet. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/jbjZSoTins
— Art Belmore (@belmore_art) April 13, 2017
Why delete your tweet instead of acknowledging a correction. Own the fact that u were wrong on cost by about 2000%. Fake news doesn't help u
— Mike Kumar (@mikeinyvr) April 13, 2017
Does it get tiring? Being wrong all the time, I mean.
— (((Ken Brown))) (@K_P_Brown) April 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/KC11A18A/status/852583672544940035
So are memory and intellectual consistency, apparently:
— Max Peters (@TikiMaximus) April 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/JoeFL65/status/852579291648995330
https://twitter.com/AntiGemination/status/852580103150346240
https://twitter.com/PolitcalGuru/status/852579961831665665
First off, it's $15.7 per #MOAB. Or roughly 34 times less than taxpayers lost on Solyndra. We can play this numbers game all day.
— Rusty Weiss ?? (@rustyweiss74) April 13, 2017
We can indeed. We can also mention this:
Obama admin gave top American general in Afghanistan permission to use MOAB against Taliban & ISIS in January 2016 https://t.co/CSckpXNpt5 pic.twitter.com/YOaCnLa8v1
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 13, 2017
Oh.
Boom goes that narrative. https://t.co/np2PSgTVzM
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) April 13, 2017
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