{"id":1497,"date":"2009-12-19T13:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:28:58","slug":"sarah-palin-wins-lie-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin Wins &#8216;Lie Of The Year&#8217; Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for Sarah Palin. PolitiFact has bestowed upon her the great honor of being the author of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2009\/dec\/18\/politifact-lie-year-death-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lie Of The Year.&#8221;<\/a><\/em> Granted, she was competing vigorously for the award by submitting the most entries for consideration. It was inevitable that one of her numerous and extravagant deceits would capture this venerated commendation.<\/p>\n<p>The falsehood specifically singled out for this acclaim was Palin&#8217;s classic confounding of an otherwise non-controversial component of the health care bill that permitted reimbursement for end-of-life counseling. These were simply discussions with your doctor on what measures you would want taken in the event you were gravely ill and unable articulate your desires. But Palin turned these prudent consultations into <em>&#8220;Death Panels.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Palin:<\/strong> The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama&#8217;s &#8216;death panel&#8217; so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their &#8216;level of productivity in society,&#8217; whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes indeed. That would be downright evil &#8211; if it existed. And for inventing this dastardly conspiracy out of thin air, Palin has earned the distinction of having spewed the year&#8217;s biggest whopper. She had to beat some <a href=\"http:\/\/politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2009\/dec\/18\/lie-year-runners-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">formidable competition<\/a> including Glenn Beck and the inimitable Orly Taitz. But Sarah came through.<\/p>\n<p>For sheer volume, however, I still think Glenn Beck is the unparalleled champion. PolitiFact doesn&#8217;t seem to have this as a category, but if they did Beck would have to be the odds on favorite. Here is just a sampling of his fibbery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama is creating a Nazi-like civilian force.<\/li>\n<li>Van Jones is a convicted felon.<\/li>\n<li>ACORN is receiving billions of dollars.<\/li>\n<li>Eco-terrorists bombed radio tower in Washington.<\/li>\n<li>1.7 million Tea Baggers at 9\/12 rally.<\/li>\n<li>UAW workers earn average $154.00 per hour.<\/li>\n<li>Carbon dioxide not a dangerous pollutant.<\/li>\n<li>Anita Dunn worships Mao.<\/li>\n<li>Obama threatened to close Nebraska military base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps PolitiFact will create a Lifetime Liars Achievement Award. They could call it the Becky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for Sarah Palin. PolitiFact has bestowed upon her the great honor of being the author of the &#8220;Lie Of The Year.&#8221; Granted, she was competing vigorously for the award by submitting the most entries for consideration. It was inevitable that one of her numerous and extravagant deceits would capture this venerated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,381],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-glenn-beck","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-o9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1502,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1502","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":0},"title":"Sarah Palin: Pitiful, Sniveling, Coward Of The Year","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/24\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Having already won the coveted \"Lie of the Year\" award from PolitiFact, it is time that we recognize Sarah Palin for the truly superlative accomplishment of her brief public tenure. 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