Politifact Announces Lie of the Year, Loses credibility

So a while back Rep. Paul Ryan released a plan to "save" medicare that would essentially replace medicare with a voucher system for private insurance. It would still be called "medicare" but obviously medicare is a single payer system and so the Ryan plan would not even remotely resemble Medicare in it's current form. So then, the next line of logic would support the claim that the Ryan plan "would end Medicare", correct?

Wrong. At least according to Politifact - who announced the claim that "Republicans voted to end Medicare" as their "Lie of the Year" for 2011.

And it get's worse! Politifact polled their readers and with over 9,000 people voting these were the top three:

1. The economic stimulus created “zero jobs.” — The National Republican Senatorial Committee and other Republicans (24% of the vote)
2. Abortion services are “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”- Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. (17% of the vote)

3. “Republicans voted to end Medicare.” — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democrats (16% of the vote)

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As you can see, the top two are complete and utter lies and are not disputable. Obviously, the third "lie" happens to be true. So why did the editors choose this "lie' over the rest? Is it about achieving a sense of fairness? Or is it something else? Are they trying to protect their credibility? I'm sure if they wanted to pin something on the Democrats they could have made a stronger case for plenty of other lies, couldn't they? To me, this looks desperate... Especially after I saw this, Paul Ryan urged supporters to stuff the politifact ballot box:
Ryan writes:
oh BTW, his letter includes a lie that politifact has already graded him on...

At any rate, this year's "Lie of the Year" is a joke. Fuck this false equivalency shit in the media...

LoL wow that seems to discredit them quite a bit but I think its more their voters probably only watch faux? pretty odd

This should be the lie of the year, hands down:

"I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News.

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