Kudos to the winners!
 

Some end of year awards for those who have earned them:

Glenn Beck's well of ridiculous was deep and poisonous before he
launched his Fox News show, but the inauguration of the 44th president
of the United States -- and the permissive cheerleading of his Fox News
honchos -- uncorked the former Morning Zoo shock jock's unique brand of
vitriol, stage theatrics, and hyperbolic fright, making him an easy
choice for Media Matters' 2009 Misinformer of the Year.

and…

PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'

By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.

Pants on Fire!
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, Friday, August 7th, 2009.

Ruling: Pants on Fire!
A winner in our "Lie of the Year" contest!

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this
year, one stood out from the rest.

"Death panels."

The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising
issues from the role of government in health care to the bounds of
acceptable political discussion. In a nod to the way technology has
transformed politics, the statement wasn't made in an interview or a
television ad. Sarah Palin posted it on her Facebook page.

Her assertion — that the government would set up boards to determine
whether seniors and the disabled were worthy of care — spread through
newscasts, talk shows, blogs and town hall meetings. Opponents of health
care legislation said it revealed the real goals of the Democratic
proposals. Advocates for health reform said it showed the depths to
which their opponents would sink. Still others scratched their heads and
said, "Death panels? Really?"

The editors of PolitiFact.com, the fact-checking Web site of the St.
Petersburg Times, have chosen it as our inaugural "Lie of the Year."

PolitiFact readers overwhelmingly supported the decision. Nearly 5,000
voted in a national poll to name the biggest lie, and 61 percent chose
"death panels" from a field of eight finalists. (See the complete results.)