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Joe and Mika LIED About Musk Seeking to 'Eliminate' Social Security, Medicare
NewsBusters ^ | 3/12/2025 | Joseph Vazquez

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; joescarborough; mikabrzezinski; msnbc
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To: JV3MRC

Just like a reduction in the planned increase was called a cut, reducing fraud and waste will be called a cut.

My wife received her Medicare statement, on it was charged for 7 colonoscopy bags and one back brace for a total of 5k.

She needs neither and we received none of them.

Called fraud dept. and was told calmly that this is a big scam.

If we have 5k in fraud, how much in total is there?

I have said that USAID fraud is big, but nothing compared to SS, Medicare, Medicaid and welfare.

We keep hearing about how much “we” spend on “healthcare”, but how much do we really spend on healthcare and how much do we spend on “healthcare”?


21 posted on 03/13/2025 4:41:04 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: JV3MRC

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22 posted on 03/13/2025 4:41:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Well, well, well. This is an interesting read on a number of levels.

Dems Fight To Protect A $600 Billion Medicaid Tax Scam That Joe Biden Tried To Kill

23 posted on 03/13/2025 4:50:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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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.

Joe and Mika don’t have a clue what Musk said. And they don’t even give a damn what he said. They are just repeating what their “producers” wrote for them, and the producers don’t give a single damn about truth. The just want red meat for their brain addled viewers to keep them tuned in for the next commercial.

It’s all a show.

24 posted on 03/13/2025 7:41:56 AM PDT by Ditto
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