The Iraq war — indeed, the larger GWOJ (global war against jihadism) — is as much a propaganda war, a war of ideas and “memes,” as it is a shooting war. Paul Josef Goebbels understood the power of propaganda; so…

I haven’t had the time this week to dig into the stories about the Schiavo memo circulating on the hill.
Here is some of the press coverage:
AJC
Hartford Courant
Boston Globe
ABC News
Post (and here)
Many blogs are covering the coverage, an…

Blogs are doing the work the old media refuses to do on the “talking points” memo ABC News asserted was distributed to Republicans during the debate on the Terri Schiavo legislation. (For a good summary of the memo and the controversy over its origi…

I’ve briefly covered the kerfuffle over that supposed ‘Josh Marshall’ (a little inside humor) that the Republicans allegedly distributed regarding the Schiavo case. Power Line has a summary of an intriguing development: some Republican staffers, acco…

Here is more information from powerlineblog on the weird talking points memo. They point out that ABC News has admitted that it knows nothing about the origins of the “GOP talking points” They also link to this In The Agora…

GOP TALKING POINTS MEMO UP

Ugh. I swear I checked In The Agora before I went to bed last night, but I suppose I was too sleepy to see this little gem.

In the Agora reports that four aides to two different Republican Senators have accused a “renegade” Reid staffer of authoring the Schiavo talking points memo. Michelle Malkin smells something rotten in Denmark. I don’t buy it. Here’s why: – ITA’s…

Blog swarms are usually exciting and always tiring. That’s why I prefer doing round-ups instead of original reporting. I’m playing catch-up today on an a swarm that began last Sunday about a memo supposedly distributed at a meeting of Republican sena…

At In the Agora Joshua Claybourn reports that four staffers of Senators Rick Santorum and Mel Martinez accused a renegade…

On Friday four staffers of Senators Rick Santorum and Mel Martinez accused a renegade aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) of distributing forged “talking points” to members of the media and claiming Republican authorship. In the Agora’s extensive investigat…

Heartless Judiciary: La Shawn Barber, Jawa Report, Blogs for Terri (also here, here, here, here, here and here), GOPInsight (also…