This might explain where the libs get their fakenews and then get paid to post it here all day long:
Joe and Mika Lied About Musk Seeking to 'Eliminate' Social Security, Medicare
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Both hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were popping their brain corks over Musk’s March 10 interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. Both just lied about the subject matter.
Mika went first during the March 11 edition of Morning Joe, shamelessly claiming Musk “referred to the federal spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, as the areas that need to be eliminated."
Fact check: False. The clip she played from the Kudlow show literally begins with Musk referring to “the waste report in entitlement spending” and noted that most of federal spending is entitlements — $1.56 trillion was paid out just to Medicare and Medicaid and another $1.35 trillion just to Social Security in FY2023 alone, not counting other entitlement programs. So that context alone makes sense when Musk followed by saying, “So that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s a half-trillion — maybe six-$700 billion a year.”
It’s obvious that he’s talking about eliminating waste, not ending the programs entirely.
Scarborough doubled down on this blatant falsehood later in the segment: “Elon Musk didn’t say we’re going after waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare. What he said was we got to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.” No, that's not what Musk said!
In fact, Kudlow even clarified during his interview with Musk that the billionaire wasn’t out to change “policy” as opposed to fixing the “fiscal mechanisms” that are to make sure that payments properly get from point A to point B with...government efficiency.
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What’s even crazier was Scarborough revealing that he has absolutely no clue how much the federal government spends on Medicare per year: “Do you know how much money was spent on Medicare last year? About $80 billion dollars! [Musk is] talking about the whole kit and caboodle,” Scarborough yelled.
If that seems kind of low to you, it’s because it is. The federal government actually spent $912 billion on Medicare last year, not $80 billion, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He's only off by 800-plus billion!
In addition, the network falsely accused Musk of saying in the interview that dead people were getting Social Security (SSA) checks, when he was only pointing out the number of dead people listed within the SSA database. Musk didn’t once suggest in that interview that SSA checks specifically were necessarily going to dead people, only that the database was in itself severely flawed at the least.
Scarborough launched the word “lie” at Musk at least six times. The chyron during the segment emphasized Scarborough's strawman: "Fact Check: Tens of Millions of Dead People Aren't Getting Social Security Checks."
(more lies, fakenews and outright fabrications by MSDNC at above link...I can't stomach any more of it) |
