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In the post below, John Hinderaker eviscerates the heart of Eric Boehlert's Media Matters post "Can conservative bloggers tell the truth?" Boehlert sets up his one big lie -- the one deconstructed at length by John below -- with a barrage of little lies. To take just one example, Boehlert writes that "Power Line played a starring role in advancing the Terri Schiavo talking points memo hoax during the spring of 2005."
We did indeed refuse to take at face value the erroneous reporting by the Washington Post and other media outlets that the "Schiavo memo" was, as reported, a GOP talking points memo distributed to Republican senators on March 17, and we were right. John Hinderaker wrote a retrospective on the story and our role in exposing the fundamental falsity of the Schiavo memo story -- explaining what we got right and what we got wrong -- in "It wasn't fake." Boehlert's description of our role in the story is itself a hoax.
Boehlert is to media criticism what Lillian Hellman was to literature. To paraphrase Mary McCarthy, every word he writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."
Media lies: Can Eric Boehlert tell the truth?
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For all their pooh-poohing of Terri and her Legacy, they sure can't help highlighting her relevance...
This comes from the womyn of NARAL. (Actually it is product of a Ted Miller who must be an honorary womyn)...
Washington, DC – Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, issued the following statement in response to today's Supreme Court decision in the Federal Abortion Ban cases.
"Today's decision shows Bush's appointees have moved the Court in a direction that could further undermine Roe v. Wade and protections for women's health. The door is now open for politicians like George W. Bush to interfere even more in our personal, private medical decisions. The Court has given anti-choice state lawmakers the green light to open the flood gates and launch additional attacks on safe, legal abortion, without any regard for women's health.
"The bottom line is clear: elections matter. An anti-choice Congress and an anti-choice president pushed this ban all the way to the Supreme Court. In fact, the same politicians behind this abortion ban also block stem-cell research and interfered in the Terri Schiavo case. We need to elect more pro-choice members of Congress and a president who will stand up for—not attack—our fundamental values of freedom and privacy.
Court's ruling opens door for more political interference in personal, private medical decisions
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