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Whoops! ‘Meet the Press’ Debt Clock Off by Over $3 Trillion

Jan. 6, 2013 6:40pm Erica Ritz

NBC News’ “Meet the Press” had a still image of the U.S. national debt on the bottom right corner of the screen during a Sunday discussion of the “fiscal cliff” deal.

The only problem?

It was a little over $3 trillion off. That and — at our current rate of spending — a still graphic with that many digits would never be accurate for more than about a second.

Here is a screen shot from the clip:

NBCs Meet the Press Displays Debt Clock $3 Trillion Short of $16.4 Reality

(Photo: NBC News)

As many have pointed out, the U.S. national debt is far closer to $16.4 trillion than $13.1. In fact, the debt ceiling is quickly becoming the next most pressing debate in Washington.

Twitter user Rick VanMeter was one of the first to catch the error, posting this photo on Twitter:

(Photo: Twitter/@RickVanMeter)

The former Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker, even scolded NBC for the misleading graphic.

“Your debt clock on the screen is way out of date. It’s over $16 trillion not over $13 trillion,” he wrote on Twitter.

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit concluded: “No wonder liberals aren’t worried about the debt crisis…They don’t even know what it is!”

Here is the full clip:

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

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dealer@678
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:57pm
When obama leaves office its gonna be at least 30 trillion

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- alex242004
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:13pm
  they were not wrong on that debt clock…. the trillion dollar coins have been issued already /sarc
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:13pm
  Yes, I saw that this morning and that is at least the second time they’ve done that. A little subtle subliminal persuasion that things aren’t really that bad. Probably done at the request of big spending Obama:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KNjZhPcpmQ
  
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- Pat_in_NC
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:33pm
  Obama will probably have $20-24 trillion in total debt by the time he’s out of office.
  But… if the interest rate on the debt rises to 5% (the historical average) then in 10 years (by 2022) the debt will be $40 trillion.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:54pm
  A currency crash is coming. The only question is how quickly can Obama cause it.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 7:24am
  Bullets will make a nice currency…..
  
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- ishka4me
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 9:26am
  With nbc do you think it was an error or intentional? Their recent track record of fudging evidence, doctoring phots and tape recordings leads me to believe it was an intentional propaganda ploy. But everyone says i am a nut.
  
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- Constantine Ivanov
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 11:58am
  The obama (Organized Bastard(s) And Marxist Agitator(s)) with his/their outrageous rules and orders is/are just one side of the problem America is suffering.
  The other side is the Americans who carry out those rules and orders.
  
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TexOkie
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:46pm
You have to understand that “Meet the Press” is David (I’m above the law) Gregory’s program and that to him neither laws, facts, the truth or reality matter.

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- Stelex
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:04pm
  Attack the media, write to everyone you know. David Greogory is a criminal and should be tried.
  
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:43pm
The left has no concept of money, or obligations. There is no one buying our debt anyway.
Any country left holding our debt should call the note in full , using another currency as payment, and just take their losses.it would collapse us immediately.
Every day they hold a U.S.note the federal reserve presses run and make to loose value.
There are two interest rates also. The one the fed.reserve offers and the one they actually are paying to foreign intities. Our money system is a joke.
Weimar republic had nothing on us. Unbuckle your seat belt. You may want to jump from the wreck.

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Inlightofthings
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:38pm
Nahh, no big deal. It’s in anticipation of 3 newly minted $1 Trillion coins to offset the debt. It’s how these people think.

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:56pm
  The coins are not gold. China has our gold as colatteral. They wanted our land also but could get the politicians to go along. ( they couldn’t hide that from the public)
  This is why china hasn’t bought any U.S. debt in over two years.
  All the U.S. debt is, is a promise to never pay. A promise broken is hard to sell.
  
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- Inlightofthings
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:13pm
  DUBLIN:
  I think you just identified why the progressives are crafting this two-bit charade surrounding the introduction of the $1 Trillion coin. It serves multiple purposes including letting Reid off the hook for never passing a budget. It’s a bait and switch of the highest order and some progs actually believe it to be sound fiscal policy.
  
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truthnstuff
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:28pm
The three stooges, crooked, stupid, clueless. With apologies to Larry, Curly, Moe.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 11:26am
  @truthnstuff
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:28pm
  The three stooges, crooked, stupid, clueless.
  
  O’Blamer, Paloosi and the little toad Harry…
  
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valricoslash
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:58pm
What would you expect form the liberal morons at NBC News? They probably got it from the White House or the Democartic National Committee, neither of which has a clue of the trouble we are in.

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MrButcher
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:57pm
But seriously, what’s the difference?

We’re so *****d all vowels have been confiscated from our obscenities.

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:51pm
  Buy toilet paper with your dollars while you can. Soon it will be a better investment, with better coverage. Both parties know this.
  As a whole the American general public is the stupidest animal on earth. FACT
  
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E.Z. Las Vegas
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:53pm
Maybe the Fed printed up 4 of those “Trillion Dollar” coins to reduce the National Debt.

Either that, or maybe Meet the Press reran a show from 2010, just to see if anyone would notice.

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environmentalandawake
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:51pm
This is just how disconnected from reality they really are. The Pres probably said it was 13 trill, and they believed it.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:48pm
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Well it is hard to see the calculator buttons with your head in your A$$…..Or Obama’s in this case…..

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- dmerwin
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:43pm
  Touche.
  
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dmerwin
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:44pm
It is a walmart style price rollback.

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Stoic one
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:36pm
I find the ‘family’ debt to be even more egregious. A single trillion is $3,000 for every human in the country. multiply that by 13 and you have $39,000 ; and 16 gives you $48,000. This is with a population figure of 300 million.
these ‘individual’ debt figures are FAR greater hen the ‘family’ figure in the pics above.
multiply the above numbers by your numerical definition of a family…..

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crackerone
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:31pm
Dear Leader didn’t know what it was either. And none of these clowns had the stones to show it rolling over 16 trillion at the DNC convention.

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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:29pm
That’s what happens when you report last year’s news.

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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:23pm
Are you serious the debt clock? Most Americans can’t add two and two so to think those idiots can comprehend a number that large is absurd! Besides they don’t care about debt anyway because they elected me a gay Marxist who thinks communism is better than capitalism. So my propagandist puppets are off by 3 trillion whats the BFD as long as my free O phones,cash housing and health care are provided for the brain dead mouth breathers that’s all that counts. I have a new word today for the idiots I mean supporters who kept me in power,HYPERINFLATION. What’s that you’ve never heard of that word,even better because you fools are going to find out the hard way exactly what that word means and when you do your ruler,that would be me will be ecstatic. You will be made to pay for all your dirty deeds throughout history. Praise be to me BHO.

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- Stoic one
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:39pm
  I often ask young folks the following:
  Your monthly income is $2,600 and your monthly spending is $3,800. how long can you continue this financial plan???
  
  the vast majority of responses question the sanity of such a plan.
  
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tharpdevenport
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:14pm
I don’t understand HOW it could be wrong; they should do what FOX News does (I’ve seen this multiple times): they simply but a real-time feed of the Debt Clock website running (usdebtclock.org). That’s all Meet the Depressed would have had to do.

And it’s running at about 15 to 20,000 dollars of new debt A SECOND. So a screen grab of the debt is off by about eight to ten thousand dollars in just half a second.

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Selftrack
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:13pm
So David Gregory violates DC gun law last week and this week posts up a bogus debt clock. So the question is: What’s the difference between NBC/David Gregory and CBS/Dan Rather? Ans: Nothing! If Goebbels had today’s main stream media at his disposal in the 1930s and 1940s, we’d probably all be speaking German now!

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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:11pm
Stop paying taxes and supporting this crapp.

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- hallkbrdz
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:20pm
  Agree totally. Top earners – time to starve the monkey.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:27pm
  No not just the top but everyone!
  
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- environmentalandawake
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:49pm
  Easily the most patriotic thing we could do at this point
  
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- kickthemouse
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 11:08am
  I say kick the mouse. If we (conservatives) told Disney (Media giant) to help our cause. To produce the family friendly ideas and patriotic consertitive agenda, then they would have to support us to survive. otherwise take them out They have not been our friend for a long time
  
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- chicago76
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 11:57am
  everyone should go on welfare and unemployment. You’ll make more money that way and you don’t have to be a slave to the non workers.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:02pm
Of course – obama’s state-run media continues to deceive the American people – at obama’s behest – it is what they’re paid to do.

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- MLeo
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:54pm
  Standing ovation on your comment, Tri-ox.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:58pm
Wheres the clip??? Got way to may pop up ads.. I am beginning to hate the Blaze, one reason I got awa from tv was because of stupid waste of time ads! The pop ups drive me nuts!

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- salvawhoray
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:02pm
  use firefox.
  
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- hallkbrdz
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:16pm
  Use adblock plus.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:21pm
  Or, if you are on an iPad, use iSwifter.
  
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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:58pm
Who would expect NBC to display any fatcs about Obama’s record ??

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:21pm
  Or facts for that matter :-)
  
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TJexcite
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:57pm
That was a stock graphic from before the last debt increase. They were to lazy to get a new one as at this rate in 4 months it will be out dated.

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:57pm
blah blah blah blah blah

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- gyro
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:11pm
  this
  
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mrja
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:52pm
inaccuracy from NBC news? it cant be true! **snickers**

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- love the kids
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:02pm
  Hey, if it’s only 13 trillion, what the heck, why do they have to raise the Debt ceiling???
  This show is a joke, and why isn’t the lead moron in jail for violating weapons laws? Holder. Anyone???
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:11pm
  Did you catch SNL last night? Me neither.
  
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lookes2003
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:49pm
Libs don’t want to be bothered with reality. 3 trillion here… 3 trillion there… Pretty soon you are talking about real money!!

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:59pm
  They are so used to playing Monopoly for so long that reality has passed them by and the game of Life has no meaning to Progressives. They are not real Liberals the last liberal may have been Edward Kennedy.
  
  Progressives failed to take over the Republican party and Theodore Roosevelt had to run as an independent and caused the Progressive Woodrow Wilson to Win the election of 1912. And now we live with a failed Constitution because when Wilson signed the 17th Amendment changing the way Senators are seated in Congress because he was afraidhis legislation was going to fail. He changed the Gov’t forever.
  
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