'Delete your party': This shady #EqualPay stat from Elizabeth Warren reeks of B.S.

Pffft! Citations? Dems don’t need no stinkin’ citations! Not when there’s outrage to be drummed up:

.@SenWarren: In 99.6% of all job categories, men outearn women. That is not an accident—that's discrimination. pic.twitter.com/4iWXqqen54

— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) April 14, 2015

Really? Is that so?

Hi media, Can you pull your heads out of Hillary Clinton's tostada and ask @SenWarren to source this pleasehttps://t.co/Am08GFIqWw

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/CarolineTurpen/status/588026873189429251

@SenateDems : Cite your work or you receive zero credit. Surely the former Harvard prof @SenWarren knows THAT.

— I'm a woman, and I'm mad as Hell (@nowhere_nh) April 14, 2015

@SenateDems @SenWarren
Source or retract; your call.

— Foghorn Leghorn (@FoghornBLeghorn) April 14, 2015

@SenateDems @SenWarren Cite your source. #Liars

— Colorado RedTraci (@goptraci) April 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/Nononosososo/status/588027782778720257

https://twitter.com/mcg0958/status/588027515672907777

https://twitter.com/alleygirl2409/status/588029938281885699

Well, here’s what Warren wrote last year:

Women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they’re taking a hit in nearly every occupation. Bloomberg analyzed Census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. In 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. That’s not an accident; that’s discrimination.

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And there’s this from May of 2012:

Women Earn Less Than Men in Nearly All Occupations. According to a Bloomberg analysis of U.S. Census data, women’s median earnings are less than men’s median earnings in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. Women working in the personal care and service worker category are the only exception, making only 2 cents more to every dollar made by men. [Bloomberg, 3/16/12]

That Bloomberg article the Dems use there to support that “264 of 265” stat? It’s the damnedest thing: It seems to have vanished!

So, long story short, Fauxcahontas’ case is up in smoke.

MT @SenateDems @SenWarren: In 99.6% of all job categories, men outearn women. That is not an accident—I also totally just made that up.

— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) April 14, 2015

@SenateDems @SenWarren

Source: Institute of Made Up Statistics

— Santos L. Halper (@Cromulentness) April 14, 2015

That sounds about right.

Pulling stuff out of your asses won't make that stat any better. #BULLSHIThttps://t.co/YkeVmWhaIJ @SenateDems @SenWarren

— Max Q ⚡ (@Randy_Shannon) April 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/siftyboones/status/588028514949066752

@SenateDems @SenWarren Bullshit, liars.

— Scott Lofquist (@ScottLofquist) April 14, 2015

Jesus. They're just flat out lying now. https://t.co/pLqKeVjIan

— RBe (@RBPundit) April 14, 2015

@SenateDems @SenWarren Wow, just brazenly lie. Great policy

— The Original SPQR in 3D (@SPQRzilla) April 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/Raider_Kev/status/588027845517123584

@SenateDems @SenWarren
That's not discrimination, that's bullshit.

— aThirdOfDuane (@aThirdOfDuane) April 14, 2015

https://twitter.com/ClosedPress/status/588028841970573312

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