[Blonde]

You can find the pulled original article now: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100201/backdoor-taxes-to-hit-middle-class.htm

[nutmeg]

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[Typical_Whitey]

First Ammendment is dead... The media are no longer the watch dogs of Freedom. Believe nothing find truth.

[onyx]

This a very late PING for the morning!

[SpaceBar]

I can’t recall “significant errors of fact” ever bothering rooters before.

[JerseyHighlander]

This cartoon needs an update. Rahm caricatured as Goebbels caricatured as a monkey.

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[I still care]

Am I crazy in thinking that it is inappropriate for the White House to be calling news organizations and asking them to take down stories, unless they are dealing with security issues?

[Recovering_Democrat]

A White House offical told Talking Points Memo that administration aides appealed to Reuters to take it down.

State controlled Reuters.

[Hoodat]

So who is the new Reichminister of Propaganda?

[SkyPilot]

Reuters was right!

These are REPORTERS we are talking about! They have INTEGRITY!

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[jersey117]

CENSORSHIP! And the MSM remains silent. Scary times.

[TomGuy]

You can find the pulled original article now:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100201/backdoor-taxes-to-hit-middle-class.htm

You would think Reuters would know that, once it hits the Internet, it's there forever.

Google search:

 Results - about 72,600 for backdoor-taxes-to-hit-middle-class

[RWB Patriot]

“According to a Reuters rep, the was withdrawn “due to significant errors of fact.”

“The story was wrong on multiple points and should not have gone out,” she emailed us. A formal withdrawal will issued will address specific points that were incorrect later today”

Funny, that never stopped the media before.

[PghBaldy]

SO will the WH say exactly what is “wrong” with the story? Will Reuters?

[coaltrain]

Just an FYI...this is from a Hotair regarding issues with original tax story.

AEI
Fact-checking the Reuters “backdoor taxes” story
http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=70244

And link to underlying Hotair article
http://blog.american.com/?p=10105

Basically it says certain of the Bush tax cuts are made permanent. I have no idea. But I do know that no matter what happens with tax rates, the level of spending is out of control.

[avacado]

Hey Obama! When the Bush 2003 tax cuts expire at the end of 2010, you know damn well the federal income tax rates for all income levels go back up to the higher federal income tax rates of the year 2001! LOW INCOME & MIDDLE INCOME are going to get SLAMMED with higher payroll taxes in just 1 year from now! You frikin' Marxist thief!!!!

[MrB]

Wow... “appealed to” sounds so... voluntary.

[a fool in paradise]

CENSORED

Welcome to America 2.0, life under Obamunism.

[LibertyRocks]

First, I wonder what the WH threatened Reuter’s with in order to get them to pull the whole article.

Secondly, the advisory I’m seeing at Yahoo! says the following:

ADVISORY:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100202/us/usreport_us_budget_backdoortaxes_advisory
The Feb 1 story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration’s budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no substitute story.

This is different than the advisory printed in this article. The thing is, the reference to the expiring tax cuts was not the only thing in the article.

Third, the article is still up all over the internet. All the White House has done is call more attention to the subject itself, and has also exposed itself as screwing with the media...

[metmom]

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