The lie of the year: Sarah Palin and the death panels
By Brent Budowsky - 12/24/09 02:46 PM ET
The Hill

With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) standing in triumph
passing a healthcare bill in the Senate with every Republican united
against him and the president doing nothing to help him, it is time to
pass out our first Lie of the Year award. It involves the healthcare
bill, and was told by former Mayor of Wasilla and quitting partial-term
Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin!

The lie, of course, was that the president and Democrats would create a
death panel to kill old people under the healthcare bill. Granted, Palin
was brilliantly taken to the woodshed by Katie Couric when she couldn't
remember what newspapers she reads in the morning. But even assuming
that Palin possesses a low level of factual knowledge and information,
the death panel scam was a pure, total and unadulterated bald-faced lie.
Nobody who could pass a literacy test could believe the president would
kill old people with a death panel under the healthcare bill.

So a standing ovation for Harry Reid for getting a bill through under
impossible circumstances, and a chorus of boos for Sarah Palin for a
performance that insulted the intelligence of every American.

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Well, every intelligent American. As we have seen right here among the
Palin supporters, there are plenty of unintelligent Americans.