Scott Lemieux comments on a Daily Caller piece suggesting Michelle Obama bears responsibility for a slight increase in pedestrian deaths for encouraging people to walk more:
Shorter Daily Tucker: By encouraging people to exercise, Michelle Obama is effectively a murderer. Among other things, Obama seems unaware that while walking and running are deadly activities, nobody has ever died operating a motor vehicle.
As Lemieux points out, according to the Governor's Highway Safety Association, which is the source of the Caller piece, that "sharp increase" in pedestrian deaths is a whopping .4 percent, or seven more people than died the year before. The Caller left that part out, and for some reason decided to use the words "sharp increase" where the GHSA had used the adjective "small."
