Palin's fruit fly research attack 'the most ignorant comment so far'

The McCain/Palin attack on earmarks continues to defy reason. We at Pound360 agree pork barrel spending needs to be reined in, but some earmarks are good. For example, the $3 million earmark Obama earned for a planetarium (that McCain attacked).

The latest attack? Palin jumped on money to research nerve cell functions, which may ultimately help fight autism. Richard Wolf, senior White House Correspondent for Newsweek, said on MSNBC's Countdown, "this is the most mindless, ignorant, uninformed comment that we've seen from governor Palin so far…"