Ravenwood - 03/24/05 07:45 AM
ABC has obtained an unauthenticated GOP talking points memo that they claim is being circulated by Republicans. Naturally, ABC cannot divulge it's super secret sources, so you'll just have to take their word for it. But Powerline reports that they are already backing off their claim that it is a GOP Memo, and are instead saying that they are correctly reporting that it is in fact a memo, and that some Republicans may have happened to read it. Although they reported it as a GOP Talking Points Memo, it may not have actually been authored by the Republican Party. (Mary Mapes, please call your office.)
Michelle Malkin is skeptical:
Reading between the lines, Hinderaker says ABC News "admits that it knows nothing about who authored and distributed the memo."Don't you just love how any Tom, Dick, or Harry with a typewriter and fax machine can craft a so-called memo and the networks fall all over themselves to report it if it will cast Republicans in a bad light.
Category: Blaming the Media
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And let's all remember that when a Republican staffer found documents from Democratic senators about the political uses and applicable tactics of filibustering Bush judicial nominees, the Old Media was agahst...that a GOP staffer would dare to read Democrats' mail!
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at March 24, 2005 11:54 AMWhat's more the demanded an investigation, and got one.
Posted by: Ravenwood at March 24, 2005 12:03 PMHey, I'm still waiting for ABC to investigate why Sandy Berger was caught with his pockets full of notes of top secret documents. Does anybody remember that? Is was a five day story before the MSM dismissed it. Why did they not investigate it? Berger is a Democrat. Just imagine if a Republican has been caught in that situation. We'd still be getting special reports. They'd be working on Bush impeachment stories.
I am sick and tired of their double-standard.
Posted by: kjo at March 24, 2005 4:59 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
