Sarah Palin told 'biggest lie of the year'

[jefferson_dem]

Sarah Palin told 'biggest lie of the year'
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has won the dubious honour of telling the biggest political lie of the year.

By Paul Thompson
Published: 5:36PM GMT 21 Dec 2009



A panel of experts ruled her claim the Obama administration was planning to introduce "death panels" was chosen as the most misleading statement of 2009.

Palin, 45, made the claim on her Facebook page at the height of the debate over President Obama's plans to reform the US health care system.

She wrote: "My parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide whether they are worthy of health care."

But the website PolitiFact.com found that there were never any plans to introduce so called "death panels" to decide who should live or die.

According to the website Palin's statement on her Facebook page generated a huge controversy and was mentioned almost 6,000 times over the next two months.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/6858693/Sarah-Palin-told-biggest-lie-of-the-year.html

[and-justice-for-all]

1. That lying wench makes me sick...nt

[MH1]

2. something we can all agree on, regardless of our feelings about the HCR bill!

well, all of us except the trolls of course. ;)

[newtothegame]

4. We've been responsible as anyone for keeping her in the news...

even though we spent all last fall talking about how irrelevant and damaging she was to the McSame campaign. Funny how things change...

[BOSSHOG]

3. Sadly its so easy to titillate fake "patriots" with lies

[FrenchieCat]

5. Yep...but meanwhile, our President is being likened to Tiger Woods......

Go figure that!

[Bitwit1234]

6. And guess what --- I didn't see anywhere in the Media

that in April 2008, she proclaimed a day to be set aside to handle the very things she said were in the so called "Death Panels".. Not one, mind you, not one of those fair and balanced members of the press asked her about her day and her statement.

[immoderate]

7. Sarah Palin did not lie! (At least this once.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7293572

--imm