Cavuto: Putin is lying through his 'lass'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This being Saint Patrick's day, I think it's fair to say we caught Vladimir Putin in a wee bit of a lie.
Actually, a lot more than a wee bit of a lie. This one's a whopper.
I'm talking, way over the rainbow, St. Patty snakes in his head, lyin' through his shilaley whopper.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}And here's why: 97 percent.
That's the number of voters in Crimea who supposedly voted in favor of leaving Ukraine and becoming a Russian province.
97 percent.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Wow. Kind of makes you wonder what was the deal with that other 3 percent.
Talk about kill-joys! Or maybe they've since been killed!
But I guess the idea was to show that there was at least some opposition.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Which was not the case in North Korea, in which that country's leader Kim Jung Un, won the election with 100 percent of the vote.
Everyone voted for him. Not a one did not! All for Un, Un for all
Now, that's a landslide. And both these guys' landslides blow away anything we in America call landslides.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}By comparison, Ronald Reagan's 59-41 percent win over Walter Mondale in 1984 looks like a squeaker.
Ditto Lyndon Johnson 61 percent take of the vote in 1964.
Or Franklin Roosevelt's 60 percent in 1936.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}American political scientists say our landslides are more real, because they reflect real human nature.
Namely, that not all humans naturally move in lockstep.
At most, 2 out of 3 do. But almost always, stubbornly, invariably, at least 1 out of 3 do not.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A mathematician called it the extreme statistical norm. The norm is for at least a third not to follow the rest.
Which is why connecting with 2 out of 3 voters is good enough to get you a landslide in this country.
And baseball players only missing 2 out of 3 hits is still good enough to get them in the hall of fame in this country.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}We keep our expectations grounded. And our landslides within reason.
But I think that really hurt Vladimir Putin's credibility in the world is he just pulled off a vote that defies reason.
They know Putin is too tall to be a leprechaun.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}But they also know he's lying through his lass.
Which reminds me of a famous Irish expression that my Irish mom quoted often and on which I pray Mr. O'Putin reflects:
"May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}My mom drilled that into my head.
May I suggest, Mr. O'Putin you drill it into yours.