Fact check: NPR trying hard to pin Obama's sequestration cuts on Republicans

Brett T. | 7:44 PM on February 11, 2013

As Twitchy reported, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney last week tried to enlist Twitter’s help in pinning the looming sequestration cuts on the Republicans, offering up the recycled #GOPamnesia campaign hashtag. For their part, House and Senate Republicans fought back with #Obamaquester, and several members of the GOP even replaced their Twitter avatars with a highlighted passage from Bob Woodward’s book, “The Price of Politics,” showing the inception of the idea in the White House.

Dear @nprpolitics, u have perhaps heard of a gentleman named Bob Woodward? #CorrectionsDesk #obamaquester pic.twitter.com/Fcor5NbH

— Tom Kattman (@TomKattman) February 12, 2013

Surprising no one, NPR has decided to run interference for the Obama administration, calling the sequester “a Republican invention.”

Though A Republican Invention, Obama Could Get Blamed For Sequester http://t.co/FsftZWeN

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) February 11, 2013

https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/301089734309060608

So, just how wrong is NPR this time? Even the Obama fan club at PolitiFact rated as “mostly false” the president’s debate claim that “the sequester is not something that I proposed.”

Here you go, @nprpolitics. Sequestration was an OBAMA IDEA. http://t.co/l5NtT5za You hacks.

— RBe (@RBPundit) February 11, 2013

@nprpolitics That is a willful deception.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) February 11, 2013

https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/301093185130745856

Most impartial and factual media tax money can buy ==> RT @nprpolitics Though A Republican Invention, Obama Could Get Blamed For Sequester

— 100 Proof (@ChampionCapua) February 11, 2013