If you haven’t seen Chris Matthews with the DNC smear talking points memo on Alito, first go check out the video at Political Teen, then review the document itself here.

Then, to find out exactly where it came from, hop on over to RedState, who digs into the document itself, and identifies the authors as: Chris Pendergast, Douglas Graham and Devorah Adler. The American Spectator has more on Adler.

Captain Ed has more.

As has been noted elsewhere, the mouthbreathers who produced it forgot the first rule of e-mailing sensitive Microsoft Word documents — don’t do it at all. The metadata clearly indicates that the author of this goes by the name “prendergastc”, most likely Chris Prendergast, who works on the DNC. By displaying the document properties in Word, one finds out that the company holding the license for the copy of Word that created the document is — the DNC. The last person to edit the document was AdlerD, which Redstate thinks would be Devorah Adler, also of the DNC, and who makes considerably more than Chris Prendergast does. That moves the problem from an out-of-control flunky to one of deliberate smear attempts by the Democratic Party itself.

There’s a bit more here, too. The document comes from a template that was created on July 7th, which coincides with the nomination of John Roberts. The document/template title? “how they made their $$, personal holdings, the whole deal”. Talk about operating from a playbook! If one needs to see a reason why originalism is not just desirable but at this stage absolutely necessary, it would be difficult to come up with a better example

Possibly related, there appears to be a rumor bubbling that despite the Italian-American attacks on Alito (including the “he let the mobsters go free” argument) he may be Jewish (via Abracadabrah). I’m a bit skeptical that a few search terms make a trend or a rumor, but apparently it’s out there somehow.

And Sister Toldjah spots scare tactics from Jesse Jackson.