In response to this item from an NRO blog across the street, eagle-eyed (polar-bear eyed?) Planet Gore reader Brett e-mails to point out a slight problem in the mild hit piece on Gov. Sarah Palin from the U.K.’s Telegraph – you know, the conservative Brit paper. (What is it with the U.K. conservatives and their fondness for nationalized health care and climate alarmism?)

From the Telegraph:

Writing in an open-ed piece for the New York Times, she said that these “magnificent, cuddly white bears are doing just fine and don’t need our protection. If the ice melts, they’ll adapt to living on the land.”

As Brett rightly points out, Palin wrote no such thing. Gov. Palin does call them “magnificent, cuddly,” and “white,” but in a different context:

ABOUT the closest most Americans will ever get to a polar bear are those cute, cuddly animated images that smiled at us while dancing around, pitching soft drinks on TV and movie screens this holiday season.
This is unfortunate, because polar bears are magnificent animals, not cartoon characters. They are worthy of our utmost efforts to protect them and their Arctic habitat. But adding polar bears to the nation’s list of endangered species, as some are now proposing, should not be part of those efforts.

And the only hits for “If the ice melts, they’ll adapt to living on the land” are from the Telegraph piece.