Members of the "Fox News All-Star Panel" propagated two pieces of Social Security misinformation that have become increasingly common among the network's pundits.
On the March 15 edition of Special Report with Brit Hume, National Public Radio national political correspondent Mara Liasson falsely suggested that private accounts "might do something to help the solvency" of Social Security, and Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes erroneously claimed that Social Security will be "insolvent" in 2018.
Media Matters for America has documented three instances in the last six weeks (here, here, and here) of Fox News pundits wrongly suggesting that President Bush's proposed private accounts would address Social Security's solvency problem, as Liasson did on March 15.
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