As ThinkProgress reported earlier today, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) defended Republicans’ willingness to shut down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood by falsely claiming that abortion is “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.” In reality, just three percent of its work is related to abortion. This afternoon, CNN brought on Planned Parenthood’s Judy Tabar to discuss his comment. During the interview, CNN anchor TJ Holmes relayed a statement from Kyl’s office walking back the comment, claiming the statement was not meant to be “factual”: HOLMES: 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.’ So fallowing the ColbertReport’s lead, Lets come up with things not intended to be factual statements. “Sen. Jon Kyl steals the pubic hair of teenage boys that he is using to make a gorilla suit”, this was not intended to be a factual statement.
This seems more like a game in the off topic section than something that should be in the The Political/Current Events section.
Moved and deleted the new topic... For what it's worth it kind of is a political issue. You have a pretty public instance of a major Republican figure basically committing perjury on the house floor and then trying to play damage control in the most ridiculous way possible. Whoever the congressional page was who drafted the "wasn't intended to be a factual statement" reply can probably kiss his career goodbye. Just b/c it was on the report doesn't mean it isn't a real political issue kids
