Leftwing owned and operated Politifact – owned by the St Petersburg Times, who’s editor endorsed and financially supported Barack Obama has named it’s “Lie of the Year“:

“In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to overhaul America’s health insurance system. Frank Luntz, a consultant famous for his phraseology, urged GOP leaders to call it a “government takeover.”

“Takeovers are like coups,” Luntz wrote in a 28-page memo. “They both lead to dictators and a loss of freedom.”

The line stuck. By the time the health care bill was headed toward passage in early 2010, Obama and congressional Democrats had sanded down their program, dropping the “public option” concept that was derided as too much government intrusion. The law passed in March, with new regulations, but no government-run plan.

But as Republicans smelled serious opportunity in the midterm elections, they didn’t let facts get in the way of a great punchline. And few in the press challenged their frequent assertion that under Obama, the government was going to take over the health care industry.

PolitiFact editors and reporters have chosen “government takeover of health care” as the 2010 Lie of the Year.”

Which of course is crap fact finding, and PolitiFact uses tried and true liberal reasoning to make it’s point. Using semantics to call something a lie, I’ll let Don Surber do the honors of taking down PoliticalFacts less than facts..

But to the point. PolitiFact calls itself “independent”, but it is fact anything but. The editor of PolitiFact is a Media Matters alumni Bill Adair who wrote the “Lie of the Year” piece. Adair a personal friend, golf buddy of David Brock, founder of MM.