Somehow I found my way over this article by John Hinderaker at the Weekly Standard website. And in the course of providing an elaborate history of press malfeasance and liberal bias in the coverage of the Schiavo talking points memo, he notes: “The Post’s story was picked up by the Reuters news service and by dozens of newspapers, and was, in large part, the basis for a widespread popular belief that the leadership of the Republican party had played politics with the Schiavo case.”
Spinning and BSing is always less interesting than the genuine article of denial and self-deception. Was it really the reporting of this memo — however accurate or inaccurate (and we’re finding out it was pretty much completely accurate) — that led overwhelming numbers of Americans to judge that ‘the Republican party had played politics with the Schiavo case’?
You really have to be far gone to believe that.
I think most people judged this one by believing their eyes.
Andrew Sullivan sounds the same waters in this post out this evening.
