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Posted on 04/08/2005 11:17:49 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
This time, the hoax was on them.
Still gloating over their role in unmasking CBS's faulty National Guard memo story last September, right-wing bloggers launched a new memo-based crusade against the so-called liberal media last month, one that turned out to be completely phony. But unlike CBS and its tarred former anchor, Dan Rather, who eventually admitted their mistakes in the Memogate affair, these bloggers (many of whom were also involved in the CBS campaign) haven't had the guts to apologize for their blunder.
When the Terri Schiavo story became national news in mid-March, a curious subplot revolved around a talking-points memo that was reportedly distributed to Republican senators. Reported first by ABC News, and then by the Washington Post, the existence of a memo, which made crass -- and ill-advised, it turns out -- assertions that the Schiavo story was a political winner for Republicans, gave Democrats ammunition in their insistence that the GOP's involvement in the right-to-die case was more about politics than morality. The document, which described the case as "a great political issue" that would excite "the pro-life base" and be "a tough issue for Democrats," became an embarrassment to Republicans, especially when subsequent polls showed the Schiavo controversy to be an across-the-board loser for Republicans.
Right-wing bloggers, however, thought they smelled a rat, and in an almost laughable effort to connect nonexistent dots, they set off on an "investigation" and concluded the memo was likely a farce from the get-go, surmising that a wily, unknown Democratic dirty trickster had gotten a willing press to report that the memo came from the Republican side.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Zot!!
Salon is still in business?
The left can't stand to be challenged. The clearest sign of a fascist ideology is the drive to crush any and all opposition.
I wanted to read it, so I could have a laugh, but your link appears to be a dead duck.
IIRC CBS & Dan Rather didn't really admit to much.
I cannot help but note how the left today uses the word "right-wing" in much the same way the bigots of old used the N-word.
Soooo... lemme get this straight: Bloggers cannot with integrity investigate any story whatsoever, until they can be absolutely certain that their investigation will reveal what they suspect it might reveal?
Can they cite any well-known site (crackpots and fringe-elements excluded, IOW) where a certain conclusion that the memo was a fake was accepted without challenge?
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And hey, who would know a partisan hack better than a partisan hack? I guess they don't like the competition.
Citizen journalists don't try to pretend that they're unbiased. We/they are not.
MSM tries to pretend it is reporting unbiased information, based only on pure unadulterated fact.
But .. unlike the democrat staffers who wrote the judiciary memos and the senate intel memos about how to damage a sitting President during an election year - is supposedly still working for the dems.
However, when Martinez found out it was HIS STAFFER who wrote the Terri memo - THE GUY RESIGNED.
NOW .. DEMOCRATS - WHO's CORRUPT HERE!! It looks like the republicans have been a WHOLE LOT MORE RESPONSIBLE than the democrats when it comes to staff memos.
Unlike Dan Rather and others, we partisan hacks don't have access to an entire news research department.
I never heard about this memo until two days ago. I guess the LameStream Media has done a bad job of propagandizing!
And again, what's wrong with distributing a memo?
Strange.
The bloggers were again correct, and the MSM wrong here.
The MSM claimed that this memo was the work of the Republican Senate leadership. The memo was in fact not the work of the Republican Senate leadership.
True enough, many bloggers surmised, incorrectly, it was the work of a Democrat, but the point remains they caught the MSM in another lie...
Citizen documentarians OK with them?
This is just a huge distraction from the real issue of whether pulling the feeding tube was the right thing to do. But then of course, that is the intention...
And, hey, who knows their partisan hacks better than Salon? Huh? :-)
And another thing: Is anyone shocked that political hacks (staffers, etc.) might be looking into how this would play politically? Believe it or not, somebody actually has to do that.
Anyway, does Salon remember when Hackie Goldberg (malcontent lesbian State Assemblywoman, late of LA City Council) was caught saying into a microphone she didn't know was on that "a bad economy would be good for Democrats right now" a couple of years ago?
I don't remember Salon doing a story on it.
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