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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMust be Election (horse race) Season. MSM busy "debunking" DEM claims...
Gotta keep the advertising dollars flowing... with no horse race, no bonuses and overtime. Election season commercials are almost as expensive as Super Bowl commercials...
The latest... from WAPO no less...
Where are the debunked GOP lies and nonsense?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/27/false-claim-that-senate-republicans-plan-end-social-security-medicare/
The Pinocchio Test
Murray tweeted that if Senate Republicans win control of the Senate, they plan to end Social Security and Medicare.
This is yet another example in which Democrats strain to conjure up a nonexistent GOP plan regarding Social Security and Medicare. Murray earns Four Pinocchios.
By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Fact Checker
Glenn Kessler has reported on domestic and foreign policy for more than three decades. Send him statements to fact check by emailing him or sending a DM on Twitter.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)Were they the same ones telling us that Roe would never be overturned?Will they ever admit they were completely dead wrong on that? Goddamn liberal left-wing media. Not
WarGamer
(12,326 posts)Kessler basically says comments by Scott or Johnson don't equal a GOP plan.
I'm 100% convinced that reporting is 100% directed by the almighty dollar.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)WarGamer
(12,326 posts)But yeah, sometimes I worry.
SS is already underfunded and the benefits are 50% too small... we need to make the program more generous NOT talk about reducing benefits.
Walleye
(30,935 posts)Dont forget. They dont care like normal humans to do. That article was revisionist history I remember when they were trying to pass Medicare.
TheRealNorth
(9,462 posts)Or Rubio's/Scott's plans, That means they support it. That is how the MSM treats Democrats whenever someone from the Squad or Mancin/Synema says something controversial.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Who are you going to believe? Rick Scott? Mitch McConnell? Ron Johnson? Their actual statements or their after-the-fact "Oh heavens to Betsy, no! We didn't mean it like that at all!" I got two words for the trustworthiness of Republican denials: Bull and shit.
Me.
(35,454 posts)emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)and being dishonest. WAPO readers are having none of his deceptive fact check.