The recent imbroglio over the “Schaivo talking points” that has subsequently been revealed to have been written by the legal counsel to Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) is one of those rare instances where the mirror of an earlier event is…

A running history of the blogging of the GOP talking points memo about Terri Schiavo

Just a few weeks after the story first appeared on Powerline, the Washington Times offers some investigation and reporting on the ABC/Washington Post memo. In response to a survey conducted by the paper, all 55 Republican senators say they had…

Update to this Post Now the tale begins to unravel. See Joshua Claybourn and Powerline. Martinez, in his statement, said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, had asked for background information on the bill ordering a federal court to review the Schiavo…

Then: Is This the Biggest Hoax Since the Sixty Minutes Story? Based on the fragments from the memo that were reported by the Post, I question its authenticity. It does not sound like something written by a conservative; it sounds…

Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker has a great post regarding Old Media

Michelle Malkin is now leading the charge on this. Thanks for the link, Michelle.

A followup: MSM IGNORES SCHIAVO MEMO STORY.

And… what did you expect?

It took how long for CBS to admit wrongdoing?

Oh, that’s right, they still haven’t: …

Michelle Malkin asks, “DID THE MSM LEARN NOTHING FROM RATHERGATE?”. The answer is: of course they did. Actually, I think they learned something from a combination of Rathergate and draftgate.

Let’s start with this, I do think the Republicans are playing politics with the whole Schiavo case. That’s not to say that some may not have a genuine concern, but politics plays a major role. So by way of backgroud, shortly after Congress passed the …

New Republican “Talking Points Memo” Declares: “We’re Just Plain Evil! I just can’t believe this. When I first heard about this alleged “Republican talking points memo,” I almost plotzed with laughter. Remember, talking points memos are supposed to be …

Main Stream Media (MSM) may have gaffed again. ABC reported that a GOP memo was circulated touting the political advantage of the “Palm Sunday Hail Mary Pass” that led to

Is the media trying to cook the books once again? Power Line (not surprisingly) is on the case. Update: More here at PoliPundit. Another Update: Speaking of which, Lori Byrd says she loves the above title. Nice to get something…

Even though I was blogging at 6:30, Michelle Malkin had already written an incredibly long post calling into question the provenance of the memo, first reported ABC News’ Linda Douglass, showing that Congressional Republicans were using the Terri Schi…

In this post I referred to a

The Power Line guys have been all over ABC and the Washington Post for “reporting” on a fake memo. If real, the memo would be embarassing to, you guessed it, Republicans. Power Line posts to date are here, here, here,…