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Politifact already named Sarah Palin’s “death panels” claim its lie of the year — prompting an indignant response from the former Alaska governor. Now Factcheck.org has followed suit, calling the claim that health care reform would lead to euthanasia for the elderly and disabled a “whopper of 2009.” The non-partisan group, however, pinned most of the blame on longtime reform foe Betsy McCaughey .

click for full size Yes, we already probed the Joker fairly thoroughly (but then, major points for the guy having that creepy eruption!). But the killer element here (pardon the pun) is this dear lady’s pullover. Honestly, the whole ” Death Panel ” thing was so “out there,” it didn’t resonate with me until I came across this Newscom photo today. As Rachel Maddow well elaborated , the radical right has been scaring seniors based on the picayune but otherwise perfectly sensible fact health care reform proposals encourage people to create living wills.

If you watched ORLY Taitz’s MSNBC interview on Monday night, you probably thought it was the nuttiest thing you’d see all week. But you were wrong… way, way wrong. Between the pop culture war , the townhalls gone wild , the Nazi comparisons and President Obama’s ” death panel ,” by week’s end, the volume of the crazy coming from the right had reached 11 .