Pennsylvania: Palin

Thought I'd spend a little time fact-checking Jerry's NightTalk appearance. First on the so-called "Death Panels."

Jerry, as you may recall, said that Sarah Palin was "sort of onto something" regarding the death panels.

Uh, no. Politifact.org, a fact-checking subsidiary of the St Petersburg Times has found this to be such a huge lie, they use their "Pants on fire" label:
We have read all 1,000-plus pages of the Democratic bill and examined versions in various committees. There is no panel in any version of the health care bills in Congress that judges a person's "level of productivity in society" to determine whether he or she is "worthy" of health care.

If you needed any more evidence that Jack Kelly's spin crosses the line all you'd have to do is to dig beneath the numbers Jack uses at the opening of this week's column. Took me about 5 minutes to discover Jack's sleight of hand. The opening:

Here's a data point that should give liberals pause: There is no statistically significant difference between the proportion of Americans who think ill of Sarah Palin and the proportion of Americans who disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president.

In a Washington Post-ABC News poll of 1,001 adults released July 24, 40 percent of respondents viewed Ms.

Wait for it, Jack Kelly fans, wait for it...

In this week's column, Jack Kelly defends Sarah Palin's decision to quit her job (abandon her gubernatorial post, desert her beloved Alaska...whatever) and he does this with a bit of word-play that stretches and twists her decision to quit into something it almost completely wasn't. Take a look:
What do Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius and Jon Huntsman have in common? All were governors who resigned this year to pursue other opportunities, and did so without a peep of criticism from journalists or their fellow pols for "quitting" on the peoples of Arizona, Kansas and Utah, respectively.

On yesterday's Morning Joe Brewed by Starbucks, Mika Brzezinski explained how soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin connected with "real Americans."

[P]eople were coming to those rallies because they agreed with her. Look at the polls out there. Look where people stand on life. Look where real Americans think and you will find that in the, you know -- God, I hate to say it -- but in the cites where there's a little more liberal elite populations you're not going to find what is representative of America.
First Mika, urban America is not just real America, it is the vast majority of America as far as where Americans actually live (from the