Conservative apologies for Schiavo Memo

[BOSSHOG]

Could someone please give me the link to the list of apologies from conservatives who blamed liberals for planting the gop talking points memo on how to "handle" the Schiavo case for political gain which actually came from a republican senators office? I found a list of their accusations

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/08/schiavo_memo/index.html

but can't seem to find the list of apologies. Surely apologizing for intentionally lying and making stuff up to feed the blind lemmings in this country would be the christian and the conservative thing to do, wouldn't it? To apologize would take strong character and deep morals and true convictions. It would require a person to want to do the right thing. Like bush looking under his desk in the oval office for WMD, I'm sure that list is around here somewhere.

[realFedUp]

1. please pass the pretzels....

:-)

[atommom]

2. I think a low-ranking Congressional staffer lost it.

Don't worry, he's already been fired... ;)

[sellitman]

3. bush is holding an investigation. He will get to the bottom of this ASAP.

OR...Right after he finds Bin Laden.

[atommom]

6. ...oh, and after he finds out who leaked about Valerie Plame...

[sellitman]

7. Which will be the same week he finds WMD's

[rocktivity]

4. The closest I've seen to an apology is this from the Weekly Standard

...The Democrats were thus not guilty, as many of us believed, of creating the memo as a dirty trick. The central claim of many Democrats, newspapers, and commentators--that the memo was the product of the Republican congressional leadership and constituted an official "GOP talking points memo"--has likewise been proved false.

But it also says this:
...Democratic Senator Tom Harkin...said that Martinez had handed him a copy of the memo on the Senate floor. This caused Martinez to interrogate has staff, and an aide named Brian Darling confessed that he authored the memo. The story, as related by Martinez and his staff, is that Darling wrote the memo in draft form, and Martinez, thinking it was a standard checklist of arguments in favor of preserving Terri Schiavo's life, then handed it to Harkin. link

But Darling is Martinez' legal counsel, not a low-level "aide." It has yet to be explained how the memo got into Martinez' pocket, especially since Darling claims that he doesn't know "how it got printed." And it should be pointed out that the talking points have turned up in Republican public statements on at least three occasions.

Consequently, I beg to differ with the second sentence in the first paragraph. And given that Martinez referred to the memo as talking points in progress when he gave it to Harkin, I think he's the real culprit, and that it was decided that Darling would be the fall guy because he has ties to Tom DeLay.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Mz Pip]

5. One columnist in San Francisco

apologized. Debra Saunders wrote a column about the Schaivo case and talked about that poll that was put out by the Christian Defense Against Everybody but Us WingNut Group. She mentioned the memo and made it sound very derogatory for the Democrats.

She took it back the next day.

Mz Pip
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