I rarely go to Huffington Post but, today thought I would go through there and link up to my blogs from there.
Imagine my surprise when my eye caught wind of this gem:
'Doc Fix' Memo FAKE? Health Care Memo Spread By Media, GOP Called 'Hoax'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
the gist of the story below the jump.
Apparently there is a supposed 'copy' of a memo to democrats from Speaker Pelosi telling them not to get caught in a box discussing the CBO scoring. The memo says that the numbers are wrong and that the bill will cost the country alot.
Of course, this is not true. There was no memo.
Ryan Grim, who wrote the story, showed the fake memo to several democrats and they all said it looked fake and that they never saw such a memo before.
Politico first broke the story about the memo and reported it without fact checking - is anyone really surprised since that is their standard procedure - and found themselves with their pants down again. They had to pulled the story a few hours later when questions came up about the memo and if it was even authentic.
Drudge had it up and they also pulled it. The only one to still have it on is Breibart's rag. Of course, he was never one to care about the truth as evidenced by his hijinks with the Acorn story.
This afternoon, Scott Garrett and republican of New Jersey took to the floor to read this 'memo' like it was for real.
Anthony Weiner came to the floor to denounce the memo as a fraud. What ensued I will just paste on from Grim's story:
UPDATE 3/19 5:20pm: Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) just read from the memo on the House floor. And Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) responded by ripping him and demanding his source.
"What they're doing is producing fake memos," he said.
"That memo that he read from has no source. He will not return to the microphone to tell us what it was because he took something that was created by the opponents of health care -- and there are a whole lot of them, mostly paid for by the health insurance industry -- and came to the rostrum with a fake document," said Weiner.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) interrupted. "Parliamentary inquiry," she yelled.
"I don't yield for that," said Weiner, continuing. "There is no reluctance to talk about the real CBO score: $1.2 trillion in savings for the American people. That's the fact. That's nothing we're hiding from."
"Will the gentleman yield?"
"I will yield only if the person will tell us the source of the document."
A chaotic back-and-forth broke out until Weiner regained the floor.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what you saw just now is a microcosm for this debate: A real piece of legislation that for a year we've been working on and a fake document that they won't even give a source for," he said.
Grim has up a copy of the fake memo.
Seems the republicans just keep getting more and more desperate.
And they would not be so desperate if they were confident of their ability to kill the bill.
With momentum building for the President and Speaker Pelosi to prevail, the republicans have no depth to which they will not stoop. the lower the better.