Nate Silver Cursed Out By Right-Winger

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight interviewed John Ziegler, who commissioned a Zogby poll purporting to prove that Obama voters are uninformed. Things started off testy:

NS: What was the right answer to that [Palin] question?

JZ: The technically accurate question [sic] is that none of the four people said that, but we counted it as correct if they said Sarah Palin.

NS: Why would you commission a survey question with no correct response?

JZ: The purpose of the question, you pinhead, was we wanted to determine the Tina Fey Effect.

And it only got worse, ending with Ziegler telling Silver to "go fuck yourself."

NS: Would you consider yourself well-informed?

JZ: I'd consider myself extremely well-informed.

NS: Who are the two senators from South Dakota

JZ: Thune and, uh, Johnson.

Story continues below

advertisement

NS: Very good. South Carolina?

JZ: Go fuck yourself. I'm done with this interview if you're going to ask me stupid questions like that. Obviously I know who Lindsay Graham is.

NS: Well, since you're running a website calling people misinformed, I'd like to see if -- there are certain things you've said that I would consider misinformed.

JZ: Misinformed? You're a piece of work! You are never going to have the guts to post a representative transcript on your website! I thought you actually ran a legitimate website!

NS: Thank you, have a good day.

JZ: Go fuck yourself.

Comments

[PiscesGirl24]

This is kind of funny. Nate Silver creeped me out when I first saw him on MSNBC, but after he just kept getting things right, I realized he is one of the smartest people on the planet. I love how he seemed completely unphased by the continued insults.

Go Nate!!!

[Upside]

Smart's the new sexy. Get on board!

[huffyfan2]

Projecting Much???? JEEPERS

[colette]

Nate for Geek of the Year! He's a total numbers nerd, and proud of it. And he's just right for Obama-time -- keeps his cool, even with raving rightwing idiots.

[roshni]

Nate is a scary smart guy. He deals with facts. If people feel they have to cuss him out, it's because they are stupid and frustrated. Nate rocks!

[anokie]

Would it be wrong of me to want to have Nate's baby........and I'm a guy!. LOL This guy is awesome....numbers don't lie.

[Scalawag]

lol Maybe it's an Okie thing cuz I feel the same way!

[roshni]

I think some peoples' genes should be propagated and some peoples' should not. Scarah falls in the latter category.

[realpolitic]

Yes, it would!

[CALAVA]

Jealous much?

[whit4brains]

Nate is the man! :-)

[rpmcmurphy]

First round knockout for S I L V E R!

[unstuffedshirt]

Ah, I see Ziegler couldn't think of Jim DeMint.

[chin075]

Of course, the "hack from the right" has to insult the "bright young kid who had it right". What else do right wingers have but insults and lies?

[roshni]

Right wingers are anti-education, anti-intelligence and anti-science. It all makes sense.

[ajpor]

Ah, behold the rabid right-winger in all his glory...

[chromodynamics]

Yeah... but Ziegler is missing his head. Oh, wait a minute. I think it's up his A$$.

[FlamingLibrul]

Uninformed voters, as opposed to Right Wing "informed" folks who vote Republican no matter what. Heck, they could put a cartoon character on any ballot, stick an R next to the name and see what happens. Can someone do a poll to find out how many wingnuts would go for it??

[roshni]

Actually people were pretending not to be R ethugs on the ballots so that they could be elected. It's funny for us and pathetic for them.

[skippy20008]

I'd laugh if it weren't so sad that the party of Lincoln has become the party of ignorant, arrogant, self-important buffoons.

[ellezeebub]

It's like they take pride in being ignorant. (Thank you Obama, for pointing that out!!)

[roshni]

Obama has re-claimed the party of Lincoln as his own in his own way.

[HalR]

Nate you won an you are obviously more intelligent than J. Zeigler. Nate keep up the good work.

[ojim]

ROTFL, Did he just call Nate a pinhead? I would like to see this putz's I.Q. compared to Nate's savant class mind.