Jimmy Carter's wage gap myth citation goes unchallenged during MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ appearance

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'President Jimmy Carter must watch a lot of MSNBC because he did an excellent job pushing their liberal talking points. The Georgia Democrat appeared on the March 23rd “Morning Joe” to promote his latest book and subsequently repeated MSNBC’s liberal agenda.

Appearing on Monday, Carter falsely claimed that “Women get about 23% less pay for men for the same job" an incorrect statistic that MSNBC has been peddling across the network as of late.

Carter then doubled down on his comments and argued that “Of the Fortune 500 companies, only 25 of them have women as executive officers and they get about 42% less pay than men and so forth. So in the United States, it's very bad.” Unfortunately, no one on the “Morning Joe” set, including Joe Scarborough bothered to correct the former president’s lie that women get paid 23 percent less than men.

MSNBC’s willingness to agree with Carter should come as no surprise given that Mika Brzezinski took to the airwaves last week to push that same lie. On March 18, Brzezinski bemoaned that “of course women get paid 77 cents for every dollar men earn for the same exact job so it's something that needs to be rectified obviously.”
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This statistic has been refuted numerous times, yet MSNBC, and now President Carter, refuse to acknowledge that they are hyping a bogus statistic to claim women get paid 23 percent less than men. MSNBC’s attempts to portray conservatives as engaging in a “war on women” has now stretched into promoting false statistics to scare their viewers into thinking women are being paid less than men.'