Sarah Palin told 'biggest lie of the year'
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has won the dubious honour of telling the biggest political lie of the year.


By Paul Thompson
Published: 5:36PM GMT 21 Dec 2009

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin Photo: AP

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.

According to the website Palin's statement on her Facebook page generated a huge controversy and was mentioned almost 6,000 times over the next two months.