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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8830)3/24/2005 1:23:12 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
ABC Checks Out

Power Line

Confirming what we reported earlier today, ABC News has admitted that it knows nothing about the origins of the "GOP talking points" memo that it first published. An ABC source writes:

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the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That's what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. I appeciate your questions, but believe you are approaching this from the wrong end. We asked numerous sources - all confirmed that senators had received the memo in conjunction with one of the bills on the floor. For three days none of those sources has given us any reason to think there is more to the memo than a particularly naked expression of the politics of Shivo case.
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Try to ignore the spelling. ABC first reported the memo as a bombshell that disclosed Republican strategy. Now it says that the memo "discussed a republican bill" and was "distributed to [some] repulbican [sic] senators." Whatever ABC may think of the "politics of the Shivo [sic] case," the network admits that it knows nothing about who authored and distributed the memo.

UPDATE: I should have made clear that this email wasn't sent to me, I got it from another blogger who has had extensive communication with ABC on this topic. In the meantime, I have had a very cordial email exchange with Mike Allen, the Washington Post reporter who wrote about the memo. He stands by his story, but declines to furnish evidentiary support for the authenticity of the memo. I think it's only fair to note that the cordiality and professionalism of both ABC and the Post in responding to questions about this story have been striking.

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