Sarah Palin Wins Biggest Political Lie Of Year

Sarah Palin finally won…..something.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin got a lot of mileage out of her allegation last summer that the healthcare reform bill touted by President Obama and moving through a Democratic Congress sanctioned “death panels” that would choke the life out of the nation’s seniors.

In one of her Facebook posts on the issue in August, Palin wrote, “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’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

Now Politifact.com, the nonpartisan, Pulitzer Prize-winning Truth-O-Meter run by the St. Petersburg Times, says that Palin’s assertion won an online contest as the biggest political lie of the year.

“Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest,” writes the fact-checking site. “The claim set political debate afire.”