Reuters Withdraws 'Backdoor Taxes To Hit Middle Class' Story

[dandi]

By Gillian Reagan

The lead story at DrudgeReport.com as of 11:30 a.m. this morning was "**REUTERS: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class." But Reuters withdrew the article last night. Drudge noted the change and wrote: "**REUTERS pulls tax story..." then added another link to the top left margin: "Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees..."

So what happened?

According to a Reuters rep, it was withdrawn "due to significant errors of fact."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.

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

http://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-takes-down-story-linked-by-drudge-report-2010-2


Can't have the media wing of the hussein admin out of step, can we?

 

[NHSparky]

According to a Reuters rep, it was withdrawn "due to significant errors of fact."

Like that's ever stopped Al-Reuters before.

[DefiantSix]

Like that's ever stopped Al-Reuters before.

Before, it was 'significant errors of fact' that favored Big Brotha.  Now that the errors put egg squarely on the Messiah's face - right after he told the half-dozen Americans who stayed sober while watching his SOTU speech that he'd actually CUT their taxes.  Can't have that going un-checked by the Ministry of Troof & Shit, can we?