One of my more amusingly disjointed readers pointed out, in a comment, a falsehood stated by Nancy Pelosi. I agreed with him. (These things happen.) I wonder what he thinks about this -- possibly the most laughable comment and clarification ever made by any politician, ever:
John Kyl, whose picture appears in several dictionaries alongside the word "egregious," said of Planned Parenthood that more than 90% of the services they provide for women is abortions. This was part of his defense of the R intention to cut funding for the organization. Other than the fact that it's pretty much more than entirely backwards, as false as any statement by any politician has ever been, ever, since the invention of political lying, it's right on the money. The actual number is 3%.
When it was pointed out that he was as full of shit as the colon on which I was helping to operate yesterday, his office responded thusly:
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.’
"Not intended to be a factual statement." In the well of the Senate, defending the indefensible willingness of teabaggRs to shut down the government over funding an agency that provides vital health care services, the number two Republican senator asserts unequivocally something so wrong that, like looking at Medusa, you should turn to stone upon hearing it; and then claims it was "not intended to be a factual statement.
What, you didn't know I lie about stuff, he asks, in effect. On the floor of the so-called and self-described world's greatest deliberative body (for entertainment, I'm going with Parliament, hands down). You thought it was true? Why the hell would you think that? I'm practically the Republican leader. You thought I was telling the truth? What is wrong with you??
Until something else comes up -- and, as night follows day... -- I'm designating this as the best statement by any politician ever. The greatest revelation of what an entire party is really about; the Sigmund Freud award for the most unintentional acknowledgment of intentional bullshit ever.
Well, except for this.
