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Related: About this forumPolitfacts lie of the year: please vote!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/04/2012-lie-year-finalists/Go down to the bottom of the left hand column and vote for the lie of the year.
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Politfacts lie of the year: please vote! (Original Post)
Sancho
Dec 2012
OP
We should do a DU poll and those who want to increase the impact of our vote can vote for the
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#6
I hate PolitiFact, but I still voted for the "welfare" lie that Robme told over and over again...
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#3
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)1. Any of Mitt Romney's from the campaign
Any one will do. I vote for the "gutting welfare reform" one.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)6. We should do a DU poll and those who want to increase the impact of our vote can vote for the
chosen lie.
I'm all about countering the massive RW propaganda machine. Politifact, crappy as it it, is high profile and so the winner will get a lot of attention.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)2. The so-called Apology tour is my choice
I have always been deeply offended by the claim that President Obama did an apology tour.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)3. I hate PolitiFact, but I still voted for the "welfare" lie that Robme told over and over again...
...just because the Republicans have been playing the racist Southern Strategy card for decades now.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)4. I voted for the "cost of Obamacare"
but there were so many "pants on fire". I would really love Mitt to be the liar of the year.
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)5. Politifact has no credibilty.
Rachel Maddow has proven that time and again.
NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)7. Romney built the RNC convention around "You didn't build that"
That was my vote.