Papa Heath explains family's use of Canadian health care and accidentally calls daughter Sarah Palin out on one of her lies.

(Photo courtesy of Dennis Zaki)
So as everybody and the their brother know by now, Sarah Palin has told two very different stories about her brother jumping through a campfire and burning his foot which required medical treatment either in Canada, or possibly Juneau, depending on which version you prefer.

But what we have NOT known is exactly which version is the TRUE version.

That is until now.

The AP managed to interview the always loquacious, and often out of the loop, Chuck "I saw the baby pop out" Heath. And here is what Papa Heath had to say.

"There was no road out of there at that time," said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. "The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not."

Palin's father said his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice — once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.

"We much preferred to use our facilities because my insurance didn't cover anything in Whitehorse. And even though they have socialized medicine, I still had to pay the bill, being an American citizen," Heath said.

Heath worked part-time for the White Pass & Yukon Railroad and had a pass allowing him and his family to ride for free.

So there you go, end of story. Yes the Heaths took their kids to Canada (probably no more than two times) to use their medical facilities. But there is no scandal here because being American citizens they could not take advantage of Canada's socialized health care so Papa Heath paid the bill in good old American dollars.

So all of those people saying that Sarah is a hypocrite for attacking the Obama health care plan by calling it "socialized medicine" are wrong since Sarah and her family did NOT use socialized health care!

Well...that is until she married Todd..which allowed their children access to the Alaska Native Hospital...which I guess...still kind of makes her a hypocrite.

Holy crap! It is just impossible to defend this woman isn't it? No wonder Meg quit!

Well at least we can finally stop talking about this "burned foot" story and move on to the nex...wait...am I forgetting something?

Okay, according to Sarah's dad the family went to Whitehorse to fix up her brother's burned foot just like she said during her speech in Canada, but isn't there some other version of this story that Sarah also told? Say to the Skagway News back in 2007? Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point. Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital. “All these years later, that’s still what people have to rely on here in some instances,” she said.

Well gee Sarah your own father just called bullshit on the story you told the Skagway News. And do you know the ironic part? It would be this quote from that same article: A proud father, Chuck Heath, said later that his daughter was honest to the core.

Really? "Honest to the core"? Sarah Palin?

You see the real story here is that Sarah Palin is a liar.

She lies as easily and as often as other people fill their lungs with air.

She does it to cover for something she did.

She does it to make herself seem important or special.

And sometimes she does for no good reason at all, just because she can.

And she will continue to do it as long as the media lets her get away with it, and as long as there are people like RAM, C4P, and Fox News willing to provide cover for her.

(Do you want to know a secret? I found this AP story over on C4P. They were using it to discredit the people calling Palin out for her Canadian health care story. Don'tcha just love it?)

Update: The Calgary Herald reaches much the same conclusion that I do.

So this does suggest that either her brother had two accidents, or Sarah Palin was fibbing to the Skagway News a few years ago.

Boy those Canucks are a pretty sharp bunch aren't they? (H/T to Snowbilly)