Lawrence O’Donnell is in dire need of a fact checker. O’Donnell, the former aide to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and a producer and writer for part of the run of “West Wing” on NBC, is getting his own show on MSNBC this fall. He has been a frequent guest host for Keith Olbermann, and unfortunately for him, it seems like he must be using Olbermann’s fact checkers.
Last week, for example, O’Donnell was on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, interviewing New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. He was accusing him and the GOP of being against extending unemployment benefits. Gregg, as you can see in this lively exchange, assured him that the Republicans did support extending the benefits, but wanted them paid for, rather than added to the deficit. O’Donnell then said that Gregg had voted for such benefits back in the early ‘90s without paying for them, when, O’Donnell said, we had a $500 billion deficit in 1993.
This Congressional Budget Office document shows that the federal deficit was $340 billion in 1992, the highest ever in absolute dollars until this past decade, and in 1993 was $300 billion. Nowhere near the $500 billion.
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