David Gregory's Social Security Nonsense [View All]

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Corporate media coverage of budget deficits and debt often turns to blaming Social Security and Medicare for being the real problem. NBC's Meet the Press host David Gregory is especially fond of passing off such misleading claims as facts.

In a question to Republican Sen. John Thune, Gregory put it this way (7/31/11):
Senator, what's really ludicrous to the American people, even when the American people don't always speak with one voice on this matter, is that Washington is not really dealing with what really drives the debt, that's entitlement spending. It's been going on this way and was a ticking time bomb since the '60s, and Democrats--like you were saying, "Hey, we can't deal with Social Security and Medicare."

Republicans, you know, sign tax pledges, "I'm not going to raise taxes." Well, we can't deal with revenues. I mean, this is what's ludicrous to the American people. And even here, if we have a deal, we're going to solve a political problem but not the underlying fiscal problem, which is what creates our debt, senator, no?

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ACTION: Tell NBC's David Gregory to stop misinforming viewers about the main causes of the federal deficit--and the solutions the public supports.

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David Gregory
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I also pointed out DG's talking point but in a question he directed towards the Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, not Thune.
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