Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto noticed something interesting about the priorities of the Associated Press:

An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes:

Number of AP reporters assigned to story:

• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11

Number of pages in document being covered:

• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432

Number of pages per AP reporter:

• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3

On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That’s what they call accountability journalism.