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Home Front: Culture Wars
Edwards Flunks Milk Price Test
2004-07-15
EFL
IMUS: Sen. Edwards, yesterday on "The Today Show" . . . you said you thought that Vice President Cheney, among other things, had lost touch with the American people. And my wife said, "Do you think Vice President Cheney knows what a gallon of milk costs in Albuquerque, New Mexico - or a six-pack of Budweiser?" And I said, "Probably not." You were just in Albuquerque. Do you know?

EDWARDS: [Laughing] I know about what it costs.

IMUS: What do you think a gallon of milk costs in Albuquerque?

EDWARDS: A gallon - I think a half-a-gallon of milk costs about $2.30 - $2.40. Isn’t that right?
*Bzzzzzzzzzt* Wrong Answer.
IMUS: No. A gallon costs $2.99 in Albuquerque. Actually it costs four - what do you think a six-pack of beer costs in Albuquerque?

EDWARDS: I have to be honest with you - I haven’t drank a six-pack of beer in a long time. I don’t know the answer to that one.
*Bzzzzzzzzzt* Wrong Answer.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#4  So this must be the Imus Peshawar Show?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-07-15 10:49:32 PM  

#3  Lemme take my shoes off, so I get this right... If a half gallon costs $2.30, then a whole gallon would cost... ummm... carry the 9... divide by 11... $4.60. So Edwards was a little high in his estimate. Imus appears to have mispoken with "actually it costs four." If he was correcting, then Edwards was approximately correct. And I have no idea what I paid for a gallon of milk the last time I bought it.

Edwards should have done the same guesstimate with beer. Everyone knows you can get perfectly good beer for $10 a case, though the definition of a "case" is sometimes fluid. But if he'd guessed high, he could have said that anything but Sam Adams' best makes him burp.
Posted by: Fred   2004-07-15 10:47:30 PM  

#2  Imus is a goof. $2.99 is generally rounded to $3 in my neck of the woods. Perhaps he meant $3.99.
Posted by: eLarson   2004-07-15 1:04:06 PM  

#1  ummm, Edwards actually got that right for the most part. Note he said a half-gallon costs $2.30-$2.40, and last gallon of milk I bought at walmart locally was close to $4.
Posted by: fallous   2004-07-15 11:29:55 AM  

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