Once again, the conservative punditocracy and blogosphere is learning the painful lesson that the truth does not necessarily set you free.
From Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to virtually the entire right-wing blogosphere, the regiments of right-wing venom were all wrong about the much-hyped "GOP Schiavo talking points memo." Over the past 10 days, they called it a fraud, or in Limbaugh's case, a Democratic forgery, all in the hope of a redux of the CBS Memogate affair.
Unfortunately for the Potemkin President and his water carriers, the Washington Post reports that the memo in question was written by Brian H. Darling, the legal counsel for Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez, one of the players at the heart of the shockingly inappropriate Congressional intervention in the Schiavo affair. (The staffer has since resigned.) As Atrios, DailyKos and a host of others have pointed, not one of the leading voices of the conservative ascendancy has just come out and said, "I got it wrong. I'm sorry."
Don't hold your breath waiting for an apology, either. As I wrote long ago, this President and his fellow travelers are congenitally incapable of admitting error. Instead of contrition, we get elaborate dissembling and masturbatory rationalizations about how ABC and the Post got the story of RNC complicity wrong. If they ever change their minds, however, here are some good places they can start: