Palin: I'm Not the Biggest Liar of the Year

[Me.]

So ...what...she's the second biggest liar of the year?

“There's an old story that occasionally makes the rounds in Washington. In the 1970s, a magazine (now long defunct) named New Times reported that Sen. William Scott, a Virginia Republican, had been ranked the "dumbest" senator in a survey conducted by a public interest group. Subsequently, Scott held a press conference to deny the charge -- thereby proving he was pretty darn dumb. After all, he only called more attention to the accusation.

Sarah Palin has taken a Scott-like position.

Earlier this month, PolitiFact.com, a project of the St. Petersburg Times, awarded Palin the not-so-coveted "lie of the year" award for claiming last summer that President Obama's health care reform initiative would set up "death panels" run by bureaucrats who would decide if seniors and disabled citizens "based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society' " would be "worthy of health care." PolitiFact.com explains:

On Aug. 10, PolitiFact rated Palin's statement Pants on Fire . In the weeks that followed, health care policy experts on both the right and the left said the euthanasia comparisons were inaccurate. Gail Wilensky, a health adviser to President George H.W. Bush, said the charge was untrue and upsetting.

"I think it is really unfortunate that this has been raised and received so much attention because there are serious issues to debate in health care reform," she said at a forum on Sept. 3.”…cont…

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/24/palin-im-not-the-biggest-liar-of-the-year/

[HipChick]

1. Can she at least give her Ghost Facebook writer time off to spend with their family?..n/t

[WeDidIt]

2. So now she's lying about being the biggest liar

Lies and the lying liars that tell them.

[gratuitous]

3. Yes Sarah, there are serious issues to debate

Now why don't you toddle off somewhere, and let the grown-ups talk about it? You're not contributing.

[Me.]

4. Palin Supporters On DU?

Or just someone in a pissy mood

[dhill926]

5. are too.............n/t

[wryter2000]

6. Finally, an argument she'll understand

:thumbsup:

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Understand? Naw... "Are too, also.. too" There, now she'll understand it..

:hi:

[wryter2000]

10. Rofl:

:rofl: :hi:

[rocktivity]

7. If she said that,

she's the biggest liar of the year NOW!!!

:rofl:
rocktivity

[Skidmore]

8. Kicking because it is so easy to get under her skin and I'll bet you a donut that

she checks out DU.

[shadowknows69]

12. Oh, if I only knew that for a fact my writer's block would melt right away

I could do a daily "Sarah" column in my sleep. And DU affords me the opportunity to use as many expletives as I need.

ETA: As long as they're not sexist. Can I use bimbo though? Please?

[Raine]

11. What's worse

her being just stupid and thinking it's the truth or her being a liar. :shrug:

[Me.]

14. What's Good

Is that we know her pants are on fire

[Raine]

16. LOL

True! :thumbsup: :hi:

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. The year isn't over yet. She's got a lock on the top spot, thought.

Keep yappin', crazy woman.

[Bitwit1234]

15. Well she can argue she isn't the biggest but there is no one

who can dispute that she is the most prolific.

[UTUSN]

17. K&R #2 for, nothing more to say. n/1

[applegrove]

18. I don't know if she isn't just dumb on the death panel thing. She certainly has a hard time

getting her head around the issues. Some neocon could easily have filled her empty head with bullshit.