Filibuster? I Hardly Filiknow Her!

God forbid tiny fringe news outlets like CNN, The Associated Press, and NPR - NPR! - should get their facts right on niggling details like who coined the phrase "nuclear option"; we let it slide because the Mainstream Media are like those sibling-cousins everybody else in your extended family knows are a little slow; we can't just bust on 'em because we're sort of related and all.

But the Senate Republicans are another issue, thank Tip O'Neill (hey, if they can reject evolution, we can reject being genetically related to them; works both ways). And therefore let us be grateful for David Brock (it's really true what they say: there's no liberal convert like a gay ex-Republican liberal convert) and his watchdog website, Media Matters, which, Salon's War Room informs us, has assembled a dandy little rebuttal to the GOP filibuster battle disinformation that's been of late lying around and, shock of shocks, getting reprinted verbatim in the MSM.

The Media Matters fact sheet sets the record straight on malarkey big ("Why, the Democrats' filibusterin' of President Bush's judicial nominees is simply unprecedented!") and small ("Oh yeah? Well... well... We confirmed a lot more of Clinton's judges!"). It won't shut Frist and company up, but at least now if you're being attacked by a frothing GOP senator (and really, is there any other kind?), you know where to get some ammunition for the showdown.

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