Disputed Memo Tick-Tock: Where'd The 'Hoax' Start?

[deminks]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/doc-fix-tick-tock-where-did-the-memo-come-from.php

Political memos from Congressional Republicans and Democrats get obtained and posted by the press every single day, but a curious PDF file instructing "Democratic health and communications staff" to avoid discussing the details of the cost of health care reform rocked Washington today. Is it a fake? A mistake?

We still don't know who wrote the memo. But we know that a Republican lobbyist (and maybe more than one) sent it to several political reporters today. Based on numerous interviews with Congressional aides, the 2-page PDF, complete with a handwritten note identifying one bit as "important," starting hitting email inboxes around noon.

TPMDC dug deeper into the kerfuffle after Democrats accused Republicans of an elaborate plot to try and derail health care reform in the final hours before the expected vote Sunday in the House.

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That aide and several Democratic staffers told us that reporters who posted the memo did not call them to check its authenticity. It appears to have been posted in the noon hour at The Washington Times and on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government Website (time stamp is Pacific time), but the Politico item received the most play on the heavily trafficked Drudge site.

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link to the memo:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/03/disputed-memo-purporting-to-be-dem-plan-for-medicare-change.php?page=1

Rethuglicans and their lobby lackeys are asswipes. Their lies and obstructionism will never end.

[sufrommich]

1. "Andrew Breitbart's Big Government Website "

It would be absolutely delicious if it turned out that it was originally passed to this blowhard nutjob from the GOP.

[blm]

2. It's the Republican Way

Little lies.

Run-of-the-mill lies.

Big lies.

It's what they do.

They couldn't sell their Fascism to the American people with the truth.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Are there any other recent documents out there that have that "Draft" stamp?

Word and InDesign both have the capability of creating a stamp that identifies a document as a "Draft".

That particular document appears to have been someone's feeble attempt to make a document using 1970's technology.

[zonkers]

4. In the real world, no one would get away with going to the same BS playbook as many times as

they do and get away with it. And by they, I mean Republicans and the Media.

[blm]

5. Which is exactly why GOPs corporate pals brought control of most broadcast media in the 80s and 90s

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