Posted on 03/23/2005 9:28:50 PM PST by quidnunc
It's Rathergate all over again, and the same vigilant entities that brought about to the collapse of CBS News could now also cause heads to roll among Democratic Senate leadership staffers and further shame multiple news organizations that would appear to have fallen for another document hoax.
Very quietly, Senate Republican leadership aides to both Sen. Rick Santorum and Sen. Mitch McConnell, as well as the Senate Republican Policy Committee, have been using the Senate recess break to reconstruct the purported distribution of a document that media outlets, including ABC News, the New York Times and a number of regional newspapers, identified as Senate "GOP talking points" on the Terri Schiavo fight that unfolded over the weekend.
"There is a process here for documents like this that are passed around down on the Senate floor, which is where the media claimed that the 'talking points' were being distributed last Thursday," says a Republican policy committee staffer. "There was a lot of stuff going on Thursday, but a document like this one was not being distributed. As far as we know, the only documents being handed out related to votes on a series of amendments being pushed through before the recess. Schiavo wasn't part of that package."
The document, which was posted online by ABC News, as well as several Democratic-leaning websites, was unsigned, bore no Senate office letterhead, and was rife with errors, including the incorrect Senate bill number and the misspelling of Schiavo's name. For days, Republicans denied any knowledge of the document, and a number of Republican Senators claimed they had never seen it.
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This does not even sound right. The language used is so wrong,
that its obviously an attempted frame job. Nothing surprises me anymore about these democrats.
The problem is that with the rest of the Schiavo reporting this will get burried.
FYI
"I warned ABC and NBC - advised them they could learn much from the Rather memo hoax without suffering as CBS did."
Aiding and giving comfort to the enemy, eh? Where's my FReeper Constitution?!? LOL
Let the truth out! YES!
I am sure there is some reputable republican lawyer on their payroll to investigate this.
bttt
Criminal...
Gabriel Keys (foreground) is arrested by police officers for
trespassing in Pinellas Park, Florida, March 23, 2005. The
young protester attempted to take a glass of water into
the Woodside Hospice for the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo.
A federal judge approved the murder of Terri Schiavo by
rejecting a request from her parents to order her feeding
tube reinserted to save her life.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050323/ids_photos_ts/r4209066064.jpg
you know that cop hates his job at that moment.
you know that cop hates his job at the moment.Yeah.
whats that a picture of? hard to tell whats going on...
Hitler's Final Solution in action, with the cops in charge.
Seeing that sort of thing and knowing what it ultimately lead to just makes me sick.
At the very least, ABC has publicized a document whose ORIGIN is INSUBSTANTIATED. It could have been composed and distributed by the Democrats, and there's no PROOF that that isn't the case.
Harry Reid should be under an ethics investigation for this.
I confess my sins and await an Ann Coulter tongue lashing :)
I wonder which Democrat staffer wrote the memo?
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