I’ll give Tapper credit, he’s one of the few network news reporters who at least attempts to play it down the middle.
Why did the DNC scrub it? Because Tapper was right according to PolitiFact.
Via Politico:
UPDATE: The DNC has removed an attack on ABC’s Jake Tapper from its website.
ORIGINAL POST: The Democratic National Committee has dispatched a harsh open letter to ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper over his doubting one in a series of alleged Mitt Romney flip-flops.
In the course of an article on the DNC’s recent ad attacking Romney, Tapper wrote, “Most of the hits are clean. Some are nuanced and arguable. One is just plain false: whether Romney flip-flopped on President Obama’s stimulus bill.”
“Romney saying he supports the concept of stimulus is not the same thing as saying he supports President Obama’s stimulus bill. The DNC got greedy here. The use of that Romney quote is deceptive and false,” Tapper wrote.