Sarah Palin Responds To Her ‘Death Panel’ ‘Lie Of The Year’ Award

As we noted yesterday, earlier this week Sarah Palin was handed the ignominious ‘lie of the year’ award by non-partisan political fact checkers Politifact.com for her “death panel” explanation of parts of the health care bill earlier this past summer. Last night on Countdown Lawrence O’Donnell wondered how Palin would ever recover from the shame of such an award, to which we said: ha! Because really, she’s Sarah Palin, this is barely a blip on the 2009 scale of Palin (anyway, she’s apparently too busy banning bloggers to concern herself with much else).

That said, now we have our answer. Palin (and/or the person in charge of her Facebook page) penned a long response has to this week’s health care advancements — or as she refers to it “Harry Reid’s Senate…shady backroom deals to ram through the Democrat health care take-over” — and gives a nod to her award, which Nancy Pelosi is suddenly responsible for handing out. Also, apparently lying is the new definition of metaphor.

Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call “death panels” the “lie of the year,” this type of rationing [now called the Independent Payment Advisory Board] – what the CBO calls “reduc[ed] access to care” and “diminish[ed] quality of care” – is precisely what I meant when I used that metaphor.

You can read her full response here. And the actual health care bill (as it stands now) here (scroll to the bottom).

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