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 ...
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
All I can think of is “You want the truth? You can’t stand the truth!” Keep at ‘em Sarah!
hmmm...more like the Guardian told the biggest lie of the year. What ax do they have to grind?
The UK, the home of Orwell.
The “biggest lie of the year” is the plain truth.
And who constitutes the so-called “panel of experts”?
Experts at what? Lying?
And who constitutes the so-called “panel of experts”?
Experts at what? Lying?
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.
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).
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?????
Sarah rocks!
Palin 2012! =:-D
Enough with the Paul Thompson crap.
A panel of experts on lying? That could be any congressional or Senate committee. They'll have to be more specific.
That’s a great candidate for “lie of the year.”
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
If a person needs a medical procedure to prolong life and a bureaucrat says no - Well, I'd call that a Death Panel.
In addition to having no sense of humor, liberals also lack any sense of hyperbole.
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