Powerline, as usual, provides excellent coverage of this story. Howard Kurtz has noticed, and gives credit to Hinderaker and others.
Fresh from declaring victory over CBS News and its discredited National Guard memos about President Bush, some of the same bloggers are raising questions about a strategy memo, first reported by ABC News and The Washington Post, that cast the Schiavo right-to-die case as a partisan opportunity for Republicans to stick it to Democrats.
"Fake but Accurate Again?" says the Weekly Standard headline on an article by John Hinderaker, an attorney and conservative blogger who had challenged the CBS documents.
While there is no hard evidence that the memo is fake, there are several strange things about it, including the basic fact that no one seems to know who wrote it and that the noncontroversial part of it is lifted from a Republican senator's press release.
This all has a very familiar feel to it. ABC refuses to acknowledge that its reporting was misleading, but can't quite come up with anything to support it.
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