Our readers’ top 10

In a season of top 10 lists, we thought it was important to show

your

top 10 — the 10 Truth-O-Meter items that had the highest readership. So here are the 10 items that got the most page views during the past year:

1. Rep. Joe Wilson’s heckle during President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress. The South Carolina Republican

said Obama lied

, but we found Obama was correct.

2. Glenn Beck and others

repeated a claim

that White House political director

Patrick Gaspard was once the political director for Bertha Lewis,

chief organizer of ACORN.

3. Glenn Beck said less than 10 percent of Obama’s Cabinet members had

worked in the private sector.

4. Bloggers claimed

a photo showed millions

at the “tea party” protest. But the photo was taken in 1997 at a Promise Keepers rally.

5. A chain e-mail said Obama

took the oath of office

for the Senate using a Koran. But he was really sworn in on his Bible. (This item, first published more than two years ago, has gotten more readership than any other Truth-O-Meter item.)

6. The roots of the “death panel” claim: former New York state official Betsy McCaughey claimed a provision in the health care bill would tell seniors to

end their lives sooner

.

7. ‘Birthers’ claimed White House spokesman Robert Gibbs lied when he said

Obama’s birth certificate

is posted on the Internet

8.  Glenn Beck claimed science czar John Holdren

proposed forced abortions and putting sterilants

in drinking water to control population.

9.  A chain e-mail claimed the health care bill would provide

free health care for illegal immigrants

.

10. Sarah Palin claimed the health care bill would have

‘death panels’

.