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Twitter pressure forces NPR to correct claim that Obama's sequester is a 'Republican invention'

Score one for the good guys! As Twitchy reported on Feb. 11, impartial and nonpartisan NPR absurdly called the looming sequestration cuts a “Republican invention.”

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Even PolitiFact admits that “sequestration was an idea that came out of Obama’s White House.”

https://twitter.com/NPR_Not_Neutral/status/301180472451551234

After conservative Twitter users cried foul over the false and biased claim, NPR quietly changed the headline to “Republicans Push To Rebrand Automatic Spending Cuts As Deadline Nears.”

https://twitter.com/NPR_Not_Neutral/status/301359469999304705

https://twitter.com/NPR_Not_Neutral/status/301507618629898242

Not good enough.

https://twitter.com/NPR_Not_Neutral/status/301156146272677889

https://twitter.com/NPR_Not_Neutral/status/301400895390883841

https://twitter.com/NPR_Not_Neutral/status/301452657917321216

Twitter user @NPR_Not_Neutral kept the pressure on and received a promise from NPR social media staffer Kate Myers.

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Today, NPR finally tweeted a correction.

Here’s the complete correction, dated Feb. 20:

The original headline for this story inaccurately suggested Republicans were primarily responsible for devising the across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration.

Well done, @NPR_Not_Neutral and everyone who used Twitter to hold the lapdogs’ paws to the fire!

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