You can vote for Lie of the Year!

[LMNO]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/09/vote-now-lie-year/

You've heard of the Person of the Year and the Sportsman of the Year -- get ready for PolitiFact's Lie of the Year.

For our year-in-review coverage, PolitiFact soon will be announcing our Lie of the Year -- the most significant falsehood of 2009. Our staff is examining the claims we've rated False or Pants on Fire and will be choosing the one that reached all-star status and played an important role in the nation's political discourse.

We're also inviting PolitiFact readers to vote on the most important lie. Here are our eight nominees:

"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."
-- Joe Biden on Thursday, April 30, 2009, in an interview on The Today Show

Preventive care "saves money."
-- Barack Obama on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, in a speech to Congress

"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)
-- Joe Wilson on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, in the audience at a joint session of Congress

Seniors and the disabled "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."
-- Sarah Palin on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, in a message posted on Facebook

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
-- Glenn Beck on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, in his TV program

An amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money."
-- Nita Lowey on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in a speech on the House floor

A birth certificate shows Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
-- Orly Taitz on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, in an attachment to a lawsuit

Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
-- Michele Bachmann on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, in an interview on the Fox News Channel.

I think I'm going with the Death Panels, because it completely derailed the debate for weeks, if not still doing so.

[Cosmic Joker]

Can we have write-in candidates? I'd vote for "Yes We Can"

[Eater of Clowns]

Can we have write-in candidates? I'd vote for "Yes We Can"

Last year.

I vote Death Panels.

[Triple Zero]

"Fair and Balanced"

[Freeky]

The population control one was pretty bad/good.

[Jenne]

Kenyan birth cert/falsified Hawaiian one is a good one.

[Halfbaked1]

I vote for the death panel one. 

i may not agree with the damn bill, but I would rather argue facts than rhetoric.  And like LMNO said, the damn things are still being talked about.

[Cain]

I want a "troop surge" in Afghanistan to be the lie of the year.

If you've been steadily building up the numbers of troops for a year, and there is no set withdrawal date (which there isn't, moaning about 2011 aside), then that's not a "surge", its an escalation.

[LMNO]

Hey, that's a good one.  You should write that one in. 

Oh, did I mention there's a way to write in your own nomination?  There is.

[Halfbaked1]

What about, "America has never waged war against another Democracy."?

[AFK]

How about "We're going to pass meaningful Health Care Reform". 

[Jenne]

How about "We're going to pass meaningful Health Care Reform". 

Health care reform is neither care nor reform, discuss.

[LMNO]

And the winner is... "Death Panels."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

How the fuck is saying preventative care saves money lying?

[Requia ☣]

I guess it doesn't?

It seems like it should, it certainly works for car maintenance, but there are some counterintuitive bits to healthcare costs (IE, fat people have lower cost of healthcare).