Nicely done

Let me also say kudos to Blake for his reporting on this. It's sad that we haven't seen this kind of fact-checking more frequently in the national media, and it's kinda depressing we have to even acknowledge it.

Still, given the climate, pat him on the back for correcting Linder on two things ...

Some of that fear, especially among senior citizens, has resulted from an often-mischaracterized proposal to reimburse doctors for end-of-life counseling sessions. The sessions are designed to help patients write living wills addressing topics such as whether they would want to be resuscitated or kept on life support.

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin recently called such sessions a "death panel" that would decide whether elderly people receive medical care, an assertion Linder said was "a little over the top." But such rhetoric can be effective, he said.

"I think she's crazy like a fox," he said.

Speaking about the cap-and-trade bill - a measure that caps greenhouse gas emissions and allows companies to buy and sell credits allowing them to pollute more - Linder called man-made climate change "a superstition."

"There is zero science - zero science - behind the notion that humans are causing this," he said.

Numerous national and international scientific groups, however, say the evidence is strong that Earth's climate is changing because of human activity.

Linder's just making up stuff and, as I have previously argued, it's imperative that folks call out falsehoods when they crop up.