The Gematria Factual Error Of The Month, October 2017

I think as tempting as it was to imply that sugar and fat are drugs like alcohol or cocaine, it was an implication, not a statement. So this month:


Bill O'Reilly's "hush money" payment of $32,000,000 dollars was only something like $100,000 less than the clean up cost of the Exxon oil spill.


Wow. That's a rather oddly specific price tag for the Valdez mess. $31,900,000. These things are rounded in millions and kinda hard to estimate. When you consider the source it looks like one of those comments that are made in such a matter of fact manner the loyal brainwashed minions (yes, psychological projection of theirs - they are the ones brainwashed) won't bother checking.


Which gives me the chance to make another bust, before back to the winner.


Hubbard makes World Series prediction. Newcomer suggests he's crazy. Hubbard says, "You must be sleeping if you don't know my work. I've been mentioned in a January 2017 USA Today article." Then says how he has successfully predicted almost every major sporting championship well in advance for the last three years. Nah. His record sucks in regards to "in advance". Now, this is the second time I've seen this USA Today article referenced like it's a good thing. Far from it. The USA Today writer, Ryan Phillips, is clearly sarcastically mocking Hubbard. Technically, claiming the article exists is true, but these comments misrepresent the content and you'd never know if you didn't check. Read the article for yourself by Googling "Zachary Hubbard USA Today."


So... I don't need to research any to know that approximately 32 million is way to small for the Valdez clean up. But since this is am award winner, I researched. As I expected, the real number is open to question based on 1). The source you read. 2). fact that it's a moving target, all these years later there's still oil on the beaches. And 3). Lawsuits and judgments filed, appealed and outcome although probably settled by this time could substantially increase the total cost


However, it's clear even adjusting for inflation, that the cost is in billions of dollars, not millions. Comparing 32 million to $5 billion, a perfectly reasonable estimate, is a factor of 1,500. They aren't even in the same ball park. If Exxon was told to cough up just 32 million they could and would have just paid it and saved a lot of money on legal fees to just sweep it under the sand rug.


And don't forget that the source of that difference in magnitude is a self proclaimed math genius.