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This post is by the lizards (mostly Sachi), not by our dearest Michelle; the host is on holiday somewhere — I think she said Akron, but the connection was bad. ~^~ The Iraq war — indeed, the larger GWOJ (global war against jihadism) — is as much a propaganda war, a war of ideas and [...]

Don’t you love farce? Eric Boehlert has a post titled “Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns” that’s making the rounds on the moonbat side of the blogosphere. Bob Owens has a takedown of the Media Matters bloviator here: In Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns, Boehlert dishonestly addresses the continuing Associated Press scandal surrounding the [...]

The claim that Power Line failed to acknowledge the provenance of the Schiavo “GOP Talking Points” memo continues to be made even though it is demonstrably false. Note to Wall Street Journal editors: If you’re going to quote someone making an absurd attack on a blog, you might at least publish the blog’s correct URL. [...]

Many people assumed the Schiavo memo controversy ended once Sen. Mel Martinez’s aide Brian Darling admitted he was the author of the memo. Now an unnamed Republican insider tells Mary Ann Akers of Roll Call that Darling received help from two other (as yet unnamed) Martinez aides: Martinez’s press secretary, Kerry Feehery, continues to insist [...]

You may be getting sick of the Schiavo memo, but Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz is still spinning the story. In today’s column, Kurtz cites the memo controversy after pointing out that a growing number of bloggers are engaging in unfair “personal attacks” on MSM reporters and commentators. Like Slate’s Jack Shafer, washingtonpost.com’s Terry [...]

This is what passes for intellectual debate at Kevin Drum’s blog, Political Animal, hosted by the esteemed liberal magazine, the Washington Monthly. Michelle Malkin is a cunt. Posted by: hostile on April 7, 2005 at 11:17 AM | PERMALINK Michelle Malkin is a cunt. Check your talking points, dude. The Official Left-wing Anti-Malkin punch-word is [...]

One thing is clear from those who are cackling over news that Sen. Mel Martinez’s legal counsel, Brian Darling, is the author of the so-called GOP/Schiavo Talking Points Memo: Your reading comprehension level is lower than my 17-month-old son’s. And he’s just started reading picture books. Giddy e-mailers are demanding that conservative bloggers, including myself, [...]

You’re gonna love this. Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes about the Schiavo memo once again, finally acknowledging that the Post did indeed report that the talking points were “distributed to Republican senators by party leaders.” The flap about a Washington Post report on an unsigned strategy memo in the Terri Schiavo case, which [...]

Reporters at the Washington Post insist they never said the Schiavo “talking points” memo was circulated by Republican operatives. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the newspapers that ran the Post’s March 19 story about the memo, isn’t buying it: Clarification for April 2 A Washington Post article about congressional intervention in the Terri [...]

In an online Q&A, Terry Neal, washingtonpost.com’s Chief Political Correspondent, answers a reader’s question regarding the Schiavo “GOP Talking Points” memo: Arlington, Va.: Both the Post and ABC incorrectly reported that the memo was distributed by Republican leaders, and described it as a GOP memo. When will we see a correction?… Terry Neal: This is [...]

Regarding the fishy Schiavo talking points memo, Washington Post reporter Mike Allen told Howard Kurtz that “we simply reported that the sheet of paper was distributed to Republican senators.” If you look at the version of the article by Allen and Manuel Roig-Franzia that appeared in the Post on March 20, that is true. However, [...]

Josh Claybourn of In the Agora retracts the post that I criticized on Saturday morning: Late Friday evening I posted the accusations of four supposed Senate staffers who claimed a Democratic aide had distributed the “GOP” talking points memo. I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was hoaxed myself. I [...]

Josh Claybourn of In the Agora reports a startling new development in the Schiavo “GOP Talking Points” memo story: 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 [...]

It has now been nearly a week since Power Line first raised troubling questions about the “GOP Talking Points” memo distributed to Republicans in the Senate. It has been three days since Power Line and In the Agora quoted an ABC News official who appeared to be backing away from the assertion that the memo [...]

At the bottom of a column published at 7:31 am this morning, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz downplays the Schiavo memo controversy: Powerline[,] which played a role in exposing CBS’s National Guard memos, is wondering about the Republican strategy memo that, oddly enough, fails to list an author: “Confirming what we reported, ABC News [...]

Yesterday, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) asked for a formal investigation of the fishy Schiavo memo and its source. You might think this qualifies as news, but it appears that the South Florida Sun-Sentinel was the only newspaper in the entire country to cover it. (And the Sun-Sentinel’s coverage consists of only two sentences.) It’s [...]

Media critic Howard Kurtz gives an update on the Maggie Gallagher payola story, but remains silent about the fishy Schiavo memo (a story which his employer, the Washington Post, helped break). Related: ABC News is keeping quiet too. Calls placed early yesterday morning to Kerry Marash, VP of Editorial Quality, and Kate Snow were not [...]

John Hinderaker of Power Line got this quote from an ABC News source (via Josh Claybourn) on the fishy Schiavo memo first disclosed by ABC News reporter Linda Douglass: the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That’s what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. [...]

Power Line wants to know who wrote and circulated an amateurish unsigned memo about the Schiavo case that was circulated to Senate Republicans last week. Thanks to Power Line, we now know that the memo was written on paper without letterhead and contained no identifying information as to who sent it or who it was [...]