Scary, Scary Poll Data About "Death Panels"

Horrifying poll data, actually: Nearly half of Americans believe the "death panel" craziness.

As The Star's David Goldstein writes today, this comes from "a campaign of misinformation and distortion against health care reform."

Here in Missouri:

• Rep. Roy Blunt said it's "easy" for the death panel debate "to go either way" (even though it's not) 
• Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer has written about how the government could start "encouraging assisted suicide or other forms of euthanasia"
• House Children & Families Committee Chair Cynthia Davis is telling her constituents the reform bills will "encourage people to die prematurely"
• The Missouri Family Policy Council's Joe Ortwerth wrote a long column Monday spreading false rumors about the "coercion elements of the end of life provisions," calling proposed legislation "the gravest threat posed to the pro-life values of the American people since the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade."

Proponents and enablers of the "campaign of misinformation" should be held accountable.