It is sad to see that even John Kyl will lie..
then again, maybe he's just gullible and believed what someone else told him..
either way, that's a pretty sad day when something like that happens..
Jon Kyl Is Sorry If He Gave Anyone The Impression That The Things He Says In Public Are Factual As you may recall, during today's lengthy Pap Smear Armageddon/Government Shutdown 2011 pageant play, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) stood on the floor of the upper chamber, telling the C-Span cameras and gathered attendees that abortion was "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."
That prompted many people to remark, "Uhm, actually, you have got those statistics just about as wrong as you possibly could."
But now, Kyl's office has walked back the statement, in perhaps the most hilarious and cowardly way possible. Let's kick this over to Alex Seitz-Wald, at ThinkProgress:
This afternoon, CNN brought on Planned Parenthood's Judy Tabar to discuss his comment. During the interview, CNN anchor Don Lemon relayed a statement from Kyl's office walking back the comment, claiming the statement was not meant to be "factual":
LEMON: We did call his office trying to ask what he was talking about there. And I just want to give it you verbatim here. It says, 'his remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, a organization that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, does subsidize abortions.'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/jon-kyl-is-sorry-if-he-ga_n_846941.html If it wasn't meant to be factual, then why use it as the reason for the bill? Why would you intentionally make something up just to pass a bill your party wants passed?
this kind of rhetoric speaks volumes to just how far they will go to get what they want.. so far as to just intentionally make stuff up and if you catch them, great, they'll clarify that they didn't really mean for you to take it as real.. but if you don't catch them? all the better?
I really do wonder if Kyle would have clarified that he wasn't being 'factual' had he not been caught..
