- INVESTIMAGATIVE JOURNAMALISM! Yesterday Reuters, the famous wire service, ran a story about how Obama’s decision in his new budget to let Bush tax cuts expire meant that all of the pre-tax levels for every included tax were coming back, and even offered a list of all the new taxes the Obama administration was going to impose on working people, just for shits and giggles, without telling them. It made the top of Drudge. Now that article has been removed, however, because IN THA BUJJET IT ACKSHLY SEZ that none of the old tax rates on those making less than $250,000/year would return. Reuters pulled the story and acknowledged the massive error, though, so we no longer have to worry about every Republican still referencing it as fact every day and in every teevee ad through November with cable news approval. [Washington Monthly]
by Jim Newell
by Jim Newell
5:14 pm February 2, 2010
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“we no longer have to worry about every Republican still referencing it as fact”
Jim, since when did they start worrying about facts???
Whoopsie! How could that happen? Dearie me. Well, these things happen.
[re=506256]proudgrampa[/re]: Just when I thought I had the sarcasm tuned. Add an “obviously” somewhere in there and try again.
[re=506256]proudgrampa[/re]: Oh, they won’t reference it as a fact. Because they never cite references anyway — they’ll say it’s true and that the article about it has been — gasp! — pulled off the internet ’cause the Obama people didn’t want you to know. Just try looking for it. Did you find it? QED.
Cull Terri Cullen!
[re=506264]SayItWithWookies[/re]: No, they WILL reference as fact. They will say “this is a fact.” You can say anything in response and they will continue saying, “THIS IS A FACT.”
FACTS? I don’ got to show you no stinkin’ facts!
Sounds like this would be a good time to have some guys dressed like pumps to go undercover and bug the Reuters office to find out what sort of nefarious deals they’re striking with the Obama administration.
Specifically, Republicans will use the talking point that Obama will tax everyone to fund death panels. Or death camps. Whereas.
Yes. Once something becomes established in the Fux News/Teabagger alternative universe it remains a fact no matter what because Fux News/Teabagger facts are irrefutable unlike facts in this universe where they can be disproven and rejected.
Are Republicans pathological liars?
They would tell a lie, even if the truth sounded better.
[re=506266]Jim Newell[/re]: Well, Jim, Really. Anything that appears on Fox News is fact. It’s in the definition.
[re=506274]Hooray For Anything[/re]: I am putting on my village people hard hat as we speak.
Yes, they will use it to beat us about the head with, another “headline” in their attack ads…
Could somebody please tell them that a story was pulled from the AP because Obama doesn’t want everyone to know that Snarkalicious has a huge cock? I could use the press. I mean, seriously, when Glenn Beck goes on air, blubbering through his tears, claiming to be afraid for his coutnry because the President is trying to cover up my cock… OOH! Maybe my cock can replace Michelle Bachman as a speaker at the Tea Party Convention.
[re=506285]Snarkalicious[/re]: I would say that my humor has regressed, but this would be an awfully rose-tinted view of my past postings.
What gets me is that they ran what was just a smear piece in the first piece. So much for that “liberal media”.
Imagine what the Republicans would do if they ever got a hold of an actual verifiable fact.
Its not only Reuters, lets not forget Charlie Gibson’s bleeding heart in the debates for 2 middle class college professors making 250,000 plus. Just forget the fact that 1.5% of Americans make 250k plus. Recently Kiran Chetry did the same, claiming this is middle class in some parts of the country. But hey when you make 7-8 figures like Charlie and Kiran its better to pull a “Luntz” TM. You know, make actual middle class people afraid of a tax that wont affect them but will affect you(Gibson-Chetry). In Kiran’s defense, it is hard to get out of her ex-employer FoxNews talking point mode. C’mon Kiran just hike up the skirt more and smile pretty.
[re=506279]Gopherit[/re]:
It’s not just a fact, it’s a FACT!!!!!1111!!!!
JUST ASK GLEN BECK!
Can you prove the Obama thugs did not threaten Reuters? Thought so! Facts, shmacks, who needs them when you have “COMMON SENSE”.
[re=506264]SayItWithWookies[/re]: References are for gay socialist pussies.
$250,000/year – That will hit many of the olds that forgot to sell their houses while Spendy McFlight suit was in office due to senility and thinking the kids would visit them if there was a place for them to stay.
[re=506333]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Yeah — silly liberal who puts citations in his emails thinks they’re useful — though not when you’re just making shit up, I guess is the point.
I make 250k a year and when I heard this news I had to fire my butler.
Obamatax is a job-killer!
This Sunday we’ll get to see Paul Krugman punching his own face in exasperation as George Will or somebody blathers on and on about the Obama middle class tax hikes.
The wingtards who post this stuff on facebook don’t care if it’s not true. they know THEIR taxes went up this year!
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