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Sarah Palin told 'biggest lie of the year'
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 21 Dec 2009 | Paul Thompson

Posted on 12/23/2009 7:43:52 PM PST by Thirteen

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

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; 0bamaisfailing; 2009review; atlasshrugged; deathpanels; donttreadonme; gonegalt; idiocracy; keepthechange; letfreedomring; liar; livefreeordie; madashell; manoftheyear; palin; palinocchio; pds; tanstaafl; truthmatters0
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1 posted on 12/23/2009 7:43:52 PM PST by Thirteen
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To: Thirteen

frpom the UK and will say this right now.

this rag should look closer to home as my mam’s husband died from cancer due to long waiting lines and it took my mam nearly a year from start to finish to get her results and and get checked.

I’ve seen and heard about people dying in the UK so this rag should look at ZANU-Labour instead


2 posted on 12/23/2009 7:46:25 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Thirteen

All I can think of is “You want the truth? You can’t stand the truth!” Keep at ‘em Sarah!


3 posted on 12/23/2009 7:46:48 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: Thirteen

hmmm...more like the Guardian told the biggest lie of the year. What ax do they have to grind?


4 posted on 12/23/2009 7:46:52 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: Thirteen

The UK, the home of Orwell.

The “biggest lie of the year” is the plain truth.


5 posted on 12/23/2009 7:49:33 PM PST by devere
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To: FrdmLvr

And who constitutes the so-called “panel of experts”?

Experts at what? Lying?


6 posted on 12/23/2009 7:49:36 PM PST by Walrus (My congressman is toast in 2010 --- how about yours?)
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To: FrdmLvr

And who constitutes the so-called “panel of experts”?

Experts at what? Lying?


7 posted on 12/23/2009 7:49:54 PM PST by Walrus (My congressman is toast in 2010 --- how about yours?)
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To: manc

I’m sorry for your loss. PolitiFact.com feeds the leftist rags until their bellies are bloated. Freepers should do a poll on who told the biggest lie of the year.


8 posted on 12/23/2009 7:50:47 PM PST by Thirteen (You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make it water.)
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To: Thirteen

The Brits won’t be fooled. They know exactly what she’s talking about - a U.S. version of the UK “death panel” known as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).


9 posted on 12/23/2009 7:50:53 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Thirteen

So, just what was Obozo’s lie about having the MOST transparent government and NOT allowing lobbyists to have access to his WH???? Just a fib?????


10 posted on 12/23/2009 7:51:28 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins SONS.)
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To: Thirteen

Sarah rocks!

Palin 2012! =:-D


11 posted on 12/23/2009 7:52:28 PM PST by PreciousLiberty (In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.)
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To: Thirteen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412662/posts

Enough with the Paul Thompson crap.

12 posted on 12/23/2009 7:53:50 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Walrus
In the Telegraph's defense (this time), they were repeating information PolitiFact.com fed them. See: PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'
13 posted on 12/23/2009 7:54:20 PM PST by Thirteen (You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make it water.)
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To: Thirteen
A panel of experts

A panel of experts on lying? That could be any congressional or Senate committee. They'll have to be more specific.

14 posted on 12/23/2009 7:55:33 PM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: SoldierDad

That’s a great candidate for “lie of the year.”


15 posted on 12/23/2009 7:55:45 PM PST by Thirteen (You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make it water.)
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16 posted on 12/23/2009 7:55:46 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: Thirteen

obama, his wife and ilk and the media are all to blame in this running the country down and putting us all into debt for our kids, grandkids etc.

If the media had done their job then he would not have been president, maybe Clinton did but not him.

If they had done their job while he is in office and ask him questions and reported the facts then there is no way the Dems would have dared to have done all their bribery, corrupt ways.

Instead the media assisted in covering up facts, twisted the facts and all together ignored them i.e. ACORN, SEIU, VAN Jones, anti Dunn, Holdren ,Jennings the list is endless


17 posted on 12/23/2009 7:58:37 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Thirteen
How can the truth be a lie?

If a person needs a medical procedure to prolong life and a bureaucrat says no - Well, I'd call that a Death Panel.

18 posted on 12/23/2009 7:58:44 PM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: Thirteen

In addition to having no sense of humor, liberals also lack any sense of hyperbole.


19 posted on 12/23/2009 7:58:51 PM PST by fullchroma (Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
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To: facedown
Sorry. I did a search in both titles and key words and the story didn't show up. Also, Paul Thompson isn't the culprit this time; he's only the parrot for PolitiFact.com. See: PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'
20 posted on 12/23/2009 7:59:00 PM PST by Thirteen (You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make it water.)
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