This story may be a little "inside baseball" as they say, but it's making the rounds of the blogosphere. During the Terri Schiavo firestorm, a memo was circulating noting the potential political advantages to the Republicans for getting involved...legislatively speaking. Because the talking points were not on letterhead or signed (ahem), some Republicans speculated that the memo could have been written by Democrats. In fact, a big deal was made by GOP blogers and the usual suspects, like Fox News, that this was all a trap, and another case of 'liberal media bias' and equating the memo with the Dan Rather problem during the election.
Got that?
Now the other shoe has fallen...a staffer at Republican Florida Senator Mel Martinez's office has been fired. So, has anyone apologized for the mischaracterization? Was Senator Martine more involved than he let on? Read all about it here.
"Martinez said in his statement that he had "conducted a full internal investigation on how this memo came into my possession" and that it was "not a document that would have been approved in this office for circulation under any circumstances."
Remember, Martinez was hand-picked by the White House to run for the Senate. For these people, politics is everything.
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