While the figure is
absurd on its face -- an 87.5% cut would effectively shut down the
military -- the two Los Angeles radio "journalists"
accepted that whooper at face value during an interview with Chuck
Mcdougald, held on July 18, 2016, at the 2016 Republican National
Convention.
Mcdougald is the Western Region
Director for Concerned Veterans for America. In short, he's an
activist. It's his job to lie. And it's Gary and Shannon's job to
catch lies -- especially when they're so obviously a lie.
Specifically, Mcdougald told Gary and
Shannon that Obama had "halved" the military's budget (a
50% cut), "then halved it again" (to 25%), "then
halved it again" (leaving 12.5% of the original budget).
In this brief clip, you can hear
Mcdougald pass off his lie, which Gary and Shannon swallow whole.
And apparently, nobody at KFI (AM 640 in Los Angeles) had their brains turned on that day,
because nobody rushed in to correct Gary or Shannon. During the
following hour, Shannon repeated Mcdougald's whopper to KFI
"political analyst" John Thomas.
Thomas, likewise, let Shannon's silly statement pass unchallenged (listen to the clip), indicating that Thomas too accepts Mcdougald's
absurd claim.
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