Brooks' response to Palin's “death panel” Facebook post: “That's crazy” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 08/09/09 12:50 PM EDT From the August 9 edition of NBC's Meet the Press: Video file Brooks added that “the crazies are attacking the plan because it will cut off granny. That is simply not true, that simply is not going to happen.” Previously: Gingrich fearmongers over euthanasia, Stephanopoulos rebuts: “Those phrases appear nowhere in the bill” Beck links health care reform to Nazis, suggests reform would kill elderly and newborns Limbaugh ratchets up health reform fearmongering: “They're going to get rid of your old clunker grandparents” Media echo serial misinformer McCaughey's false end-of-life counseling claim Conservatives fearmonger that health care reform will lead to denying treatment to elderly