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Your third source, Politifact, is suspect:

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PolitiFact.com was started in August 2007 by Times Washington Bureau Chief Bill Adair, in conjunction with the Congressional Quarterly. Adair remains PolitiFact.com's editor.[2] In January 2010, PolitiFact.com expanded to its second newspaper, the Cox-owned Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas; the feature, called Politifact Texas, covers issues that are relevant to Texas and the Austin area. In March 2010, the Times and its partner newspaper, The Miami Herald, launched Politifact Florida, which focuses on Florida issues. The Times and The Herald share resources on some stories that relate to Florida. Since then, PolitiFact.com expanded to other papers, such as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Providence Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Plain Dealer, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and The Oregonian. [edit]"Lie of the year"

Since 2009, PolitiFact.com has every year declared one political statement from that year to be the "lie of the year". In December 2009, they declared the lie of the year to be Sarah Palin's claim that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 would lead to government "death panels" that dictated which types of patients would receive treatment.

[3] Columnist James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal, writing in 2011, criticized this choice, saying that PolitiFact.com relied on an "out-of-context interpretation" of Palin's words, and that Palin's basic argument, that the act would lead to the government "drastically curtailing medical benefits", was in fact correct.[4]

In December 2010, PolitiFact.com dubbed the lie of the year to be the claim among some opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that it represented a "government takeover of healthcare". PolitiFact.com argued that this was not the case, since all providing of health care and insurance would remain in the hands of private companies.[5]