Memo to Matt, Katie and Timmeh!

From TAP:

A new and extensive analysis of campaign donations from all of Jack Abramoff's tribal clients, done by a nonpartisan research firm, shows that a great majority of contributions made by those clients went to Republicans. The analysis undercuts the claim that Abramoff directed sums to Democrats at anywhere near the same rate.

The analysis, which was commissioned by The American Prospect and completed on Jan. 25, was done by Dwight L. Morris and Associates, a for-profit firm specializing in campaign finance that has done research for many media outlets [...]

The analysis shows:

in total, the donations of Abramoff's tribal clients to Democrats dropped by nine percent after they hired him, while their donations to Republicans more than doubled, increasing by 135 percent after they signed him up;

five out of seven of Abramoff's tribal clients vastly favored Republican candidates over Democratic ones;

four of the seven began giving substantially more to Republicans than Democrats after he took them on;

Abramoff's clients gave well over twice as much to Republicans than Democrats, while tribes not affiliated with Abramoff gave well over twice as much to Democrats than the GOP -- exactly the reverse pattern.

"It's very hard to see the donations of Abramoff's clients as a bipartisan greasing of the wheels," Morris, the firm's founder and a former investigations editor at the Los Angeles Times, told The Prospect.

George10 Brings it home.

The media has had a field day villanizing Indian tribes, implying that any donation by an Indian tribe is a bribe. Of course Democrats accepted funds from tribes. But there is no evidence whatsoever that any Democrats are involved in this scandal. Jack Abramoff, an admitted felon, is a Republican lobbyist. This is Republican scandal, through and through.

So will the newsreaders (I refuse to call them "reporters") like Katie Couric and Matt Lauer eat crow on national television? Of course not. The smear is out there, their deed is done.