The Schiavo memo is that nasty political action memo circulated to Republican Senators, which encouraged them to speak out for action to save Schiavo, because the issue would hurt Democrats.

The Republican spin machine then lied and said that the memo was a Democrat forgery, like the Dan Rather CBS memogate fiasco.

Well, a staffer for Republican Senator Mel Martinez has admitted writing the memo:

The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.

Ok, now that the Republicans have admitted the memo was authentic, what to do about all those demonizing spinwits who put out the smug self-assured BS that the memo was absolutely a fake. See below for excerpts.

Will all those spinwits apologize or issue corrections? Listen carefully to them.

Here are some examples of the Right Wing spin universe, proudly declaring with utter assurance that the Schiavo memo was fake:
All excerpts from:
So much crow, so little time - Waiting on mea culpas (from DailyKOS)
and/or from

Love it when conservatives make assess of themselves (from AmericaBlog).

Rush Limbaugh:
“Truth Detector: Supposed GOP Schiavo Memo Forged by Democrats.”

Tucker Carlson:
“Last week a memo surfaced, reportedly written by the Republican members of Congress explaining how to make hay with the Terri Schiavo case, the Talking Points Memo, Ah, I think within a week or two it will become clear that that memo was a forgery, possibly written by Democrats on the hill in an effort to discredit Republicans. Bloggers are saying that now and it sounds like they may be right.”

Fred Barnes:
“So rather than an example of aggressive reporting, the memo story turns out to be yet another instance of crude liberal bias, in this case against both Republicans and those who fought to have Schiavo’s feeding tube restored. Naturally, the memo had a second life when the story was picked up by other news outlets, pundits, and columnists. How did ABC and others get wind of the memo in the first place? It came from ‘Democratic aides,’ according to the New York Times, who ’said it had been distributed to Senate Republicans.’ Not exactly a disinterested source.”

Newsmax:
There was just one problem: Closer examination by The American Spectator, talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, The Weekly Standard, and Accuracy in Media (AIM) indicates that the memo is a fraud - a political dirty trick, if you will, specifically aimed at causing public revulsion at Republicans.

Michelle Malkin:
I suspect that no one at the Post or ABC News still believes the amateurish, unsigned, misspelled memo was circulated by Republican Party leaders.

Accuracy in Media:
Accuracy in Media today questioned the authenticity of the much-publicized “GOP Talking Points” memo on the Terri Schiavo case.

In the Agora:
On Friday four staffers accused a renegade aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) of distributing forged “talking points” to members of the media and claiming Republican authorship. In the Agora’s extensive investigations in the alleged “GOP” Schiavo talking points memo reveal possible tricks from low level Democratic aides. Two of the four GOP staffers tell ITA they were eyewitnesses to the exchange.

Sen. Bennet:
Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Utah Republican, said the issue “stinks” of a news fabrication similar to the one that engulfed CBS anchorman Dan Rather during the 2004 presidential campaign, after he reported that President Bush did not fulfill his duties while in the National Guard, citing documents that CBS later admitted could not be authenticated.

Since the Schiavo memo was SO high profile, we should reasonably expect retractions and corrections. Please watch for those to occur. I expect you will see some. I wonder how much prominence will be given to the correction. The blowhards are SO smug when running down Democrats, that it’s hard to imagine they will give reasonable prominence to admitting being completely wrong.