This is the time of year when media outlets publish their end-of-the-year lists.  They put a little ketchup on last Monday night's meatloaf and reheat it, hoping you won't notice that you have seen it somewhere before.

One such end-of-year list comes from Boston.com - the "online home" of The Boston Globe.  They just reheated... er, I mean published... a piece called "2010: The Year in Mistakes".

It should come as no surprise that The Boston Globe / Boston.com took the opportunity to take gratuitous potshots at a couple of conservatives they don't like.

The most obvious ambush was on Jerry Falwell.  It is interesting that Falwell would make the "2010 mistakes" list, considering he has been dead for three years.  Way to appear neutral, Globe.

Boston.com's second preemptive strike against Camp Conservative was directed at their perennial scapegoat, Sarah Palin.  They claimed:

In a tweet, Sarah Palin asked Muslims to "refudiate" the "Ground Zero Mosque." "Refudiate" is not a word. The "Ground Zero Mosque" is not a mosque. Nor is it located at Ground Zero.

But that is not completely true.  The Islamic center in question did include plans for a mosque.  And, of course, Palin never claimed they would airlift the mosque smack dab in the middle of the actual Ground Zero site.  It was planned for a site near Ground Zero.  That was understood.

Twitter should allow Sarah Palin to enter more than 140 characters because aparently Boston.com has an army of pedants waiting to pounce on her every Tweet.

Even if Boston.com's characterization of Palin's comments were correct, would those comments really qualify as one of the biggest mistakes of 2010?  Blending the words "refute" and "repudiate" in a Tweet back in July?  I see innocuous errors like that online all the time, including in their headlines.

I, for one, don't think that qualifies as one of the biggest mistakes of 2010.  No, I think we are looking squarely in the eye of the liberal media drive-by attack of the week.