LA Times echoed McCain's reported spin of Social Security "disgrace" comment

SUMMARY: The Los Angeles Times asserted as fact that in recent comments about Social Security, Sen. John McCain used the word "disgrace" to refer to how "younger workers are forced to pay for a plan that, in his view, is unlikely to benefit them when they retire." But the Times ignored an assertion by McCain on CNN on July 8 in which he again appeared to be denouncing the Social Security system itself and not, as the Times reported, the fact that absent legislative change, the system faces insolvency in the future.

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