Jeffrey over at ThreeBadFingers has a fascinating disection of the People for the American Way’s filibuster talking points that have been recited by the left.

UPDATE: Powerline also has a post discussing the out of context (and completely incorrect) quotations of Senator Orrin Hatch by Terry Neal of the WaPo. Neal’s quote:

Eleven years ago, when Republicans were still in the minority, Sen. Orin [sic] Hatch (R-Utah) said the filibuster tool should be used because ‘the minority has to protect itself and those the minority represents.’

The full context:

Mr. President, one of the games that is being played around here is that whenever the majority leader wants to move something along, he files cloture, whether or not anybody has decided to use extended debate. I have heard the majority leader—who is a person I have great regard and respect for—say how beset we are with filibusters in this body.
Naturally, in the last week or so of a session, there is going to be the threat of some filibusters. It is one of the few tools that the minority has to protect itself and those the minority represents. But this is not a filibuster. I find it unseemly to have filed cloture on a judgeship nomination—where I have made it very clear that I would work to get a time agreement—and make it look like somebody is trying to filibuster a Federal court judgeship.

I think it is wrong, and I think it is wrong to suggest in the media that this is a filibuster situation, because it is not.

I personally do not want to filibuster Federal judges. The President won the election. He ought to have the right to appoint the judges he wants to.’

Hewitt:

What Neal’s abuse of the much-abused Hatch quote tells us is that Neal is either comfortable working with Democratic talking points that he did not suspect were cut-and-paste jobs, or that he didn’t care since it helped make his (false) point that everybody does it.