AP Report Gives Waxman Cover for Cancelled Hearings on Corporate ObamaCare Expense Recognition | NewsBusters.org

AP Report Gives Waxman Cover for Cancelled Hearings on Corporate ObamaCare Expense Recognition | NewsBusters.org: "Talk about running interference.

On Wednesday, Congressman Henry Waxman cancelled hearings, or what Michelle Malkin referred to as 'show trials' in her Friday syndicated column, designed to put the spotlight on companies that dared to do what they legally had to do in response to the passage of ObamaCare: tell the public the estimated impact on their bottom lines relating to a specific tax law chance that was included in the legislation.

Despite the legal requirement, the headline of the Associated Press's coverage on the day of the announcement described the companies' announcements as 'gripes.' AP Business Writer Matthew Perrone called them 'concerns,' and acted as if the companies backed down, when the only qualification involved a questionably and largely unrelated item, i.e., what might happen if the law manages to lower overall health care costs.

That journalistically inaccurate narrative gave Waxman an undeserved way out of the heavyhanded mess that he created.

Here are the related paragraphs of Perrone's pathetic piece:"