Reading behind Jill

Jill Stewart's latest anti-Gray Davis column from Sacramento is being aggressively fact-checked by liberal-leaning lawyer Steve Smith at his blog and in the comments to a Matt Welch post at Hit and Run. The column blasts a bunch of Democratic bills out of the Legislature, but Smith links to each bill and calls her summaries of them "so far off the mark as to be mendacious." Writes Smith:

Since fact-checking and due dilligence seem to be rare commodities in blogtopia, I thought I would at least try to make a difference.

Kausfiles and some of the more conservative blogs had touted the Stewart column after it came out on Thursday.