Hearst's timing in leaving publishing, in 1993, probably had something to do with the death of his father, a Pulitizer-prize-winning newspaper reporter, but the road the youngest William took had everything to do with his wealth, position and polymath intelligence.

FORBES: Polymath scion

So the question is, how can he now stand by idly and just say -- one of his former White House aides is running this thing that says that Mitt Romney may have had something to do with someone's death?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

Ms Cohodas believes that an obsession with dieting had something to do with the singer's death in 1963 (she was just 39) from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

ECONOMIST: Dinah Washington

This may have something to do with the fact that Kim himself languished on death row in 1980, charged with inciting the Kwangju uprising that year, which led to the killings of hundreds of pro-democracy activists by government troops. (His sentence was commuted.) Last year, on the Aug. 15 anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule, Kim pardoned five death-row prisoners.

CNN: Death, Be Not Proud

The real death panel myth is that the term ever had anything to do with something so potentially beneficial.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Death Panels Revisited