Posted on 03/12/2025 5:46:59 PM PDT by JV3MRC
The blowhards at MSNBC’s Morning Joe should realize that continuing to shoot lies through their whitened tooth implants on the air about Elon Musk doesn’t make them any more true. What’s worse is that they don’t even attempt to be clever about it.
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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I think that Musk should issue a challenge to the democrat senators and the media — one million dollars to anyone who can find within the four corners of the document where it cuts Social Security and Medicare.
Obama was the one who cut Medicare and no one mentions it.
Be interesting to investigate Mica and Joe.
Two liars who lied to their own spouses.
Liars lie. You don’t have to drink the entire ocean to know it’s salty. Stop swimming in it.
Slow Joe and Ho have nothing else to offer.
Those two are a perfect match. They just bounce lies to each other.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski won’t talk about the terrorists shooting at, vandalizing, and torching Tesla dealerships. That’s unfortunate.
How much USAID were they getting?
They are democrats, it’s what they do.
Trump or Musk can’t arbitrarily cut Social Security or Medicare ...that would take an act of Congress and would not likely pass. Joe and Mika are just repeating their DNC talking points and trying to whip up panic.
I don't think Mika murdered one of her 'interns'... For Joe that question is dubious.
Banjo Boy and Mika really are frontline liars!
Do those two morons ever NOT lie?
Joe and Mika lied. Did they ever tell the truth? This is dog bites man story.
why does the FCC allow them to murder interns
and lie to the public.
either close their license today,
or eliminate the FCC, Pres. Trump.
I haven’t heard anything about them two in quite a while. I forgot that they even had a show.
EVERY election, every RAT says the GOP is going to cut SS and Medicare / Medicaid. It’s been happening for decades. Don’t these people ever learn?
Must scare Old People. Cut Social security is the tool. Scare old Black people: Churches will burn! Latinos: Going to send ya back to Old Mexico. The old game plans will not work.
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