And in Closing: FUCK YOU TIMMEH -- AND FUCK YOU KATIE -- AND FUCK YOU MATT -- and just for good measure YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF AL ROCKER

For the lying sacks of shit that NBC News has become go read Josh Marshall. Here's a part:

New study by non-partisan research firm says no dice to claims Jack Abramoff was steering tribal money to Dems like he was to Republicans. In fact, the study suggests opposite.

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.

I repeat the title!