NYMag‘s Daily Intel reports that “Now the Only Evidence That Jon Kyl Lied About Planned Parenthood Will Be the Entire Internet“:
A couple of weeks after claiming that abortions account for “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does” — it’s actually 3 percent — and then explaining that he had actually never intended to make a “factual statement,” Arizona senator Jon Kyl has edited the congressional record to make his remark more factual:
__Sen. Jon Kyl has quietly removed his infamous comment that 90 percent of Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion from the Congressional Record. Senators are allowed to revise and extend their comments in record and his statement now simply says: “If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that is what Planned Parenthood does.” Kyl’s office could not be reached for comment.
Nobody tell Kyl about the Internet; it will make him so sad.
Speaking of persons not intended to be factual… Be afraid, gamers! Be very afraid, for the NYTimes has discovered online gaming can lead to IRL romance:
The beginner’s guide to World of Warcraft notes that you can go it alone, “but by going it alone, you won’t be able to master some of the game’s tougher challenges, you will likely take longer to reach the endgame, and you won’t have access to the game’s most powerful magical treasures.” Ms. Pringle thinks that is analogous to love.
Joseph Nobles
Now the statement is even more wrong. It implies that abortion is Planned Parenthood’s sole purpose for existence. From 90% to 100% — Jon Kyl is smoking crack.
Yutsano
@Joseph Nobles:
Fixteth.
JaneGoth
When I lived 50 miles away from my then boyfriend (now my husband) we did a lot of our “courting” by playing WoW together. More interesting for me than plain IM.
Gordon Guano
Hooked up once thanks to WoW, and met my best friend on it as well. At $13/month, it’s way cheaper than bars.
Villago Delenda Est
Well, duh.
Amongst my guildies are entire friggin’ families. Dad, mom, son, daughter. Or two sons. Or in one case, someone being told in guild chat it was time to go to bed…I know this because I was at the Shadow Vault with the son giving him some advice on Ebon Blade daily quests, when mom informed him, in guild chat, “logoff NOW!”.
We have guys in their 20’s who introduced their dads to WoW, we’ve got couples who are not yet married but play WoW together, we’ve got a kid who changed servers and factions so he could raid with his Dad in our guild…
This stuff goes on like so much life in America totally off the radar of the hipster slackers of the NYT.
SRW1
Sorry AL, but you are missing something. The congressional record is for eternity and awesome. It is what counts for really serious people. That internet chaff is just the tide that comes in and goes out. Any remnants of Kyl’s performance in the Senate will have the same status as the so-called ‘documentary’ evidence of NASA landing men on the moon. Only nuts believe that crap.
Spaghetti Lee
I just love that quote so much-it’s like a complete distillation of the Republican Party. It’s this generation’s “I am not a crook.”
Gina
Meanwhile, on BoingBoing, here’s Puppy vs. Yppup.
Metatron
… Now if only Kyl were likely to face any penalty for his mendacity.
bemused
@Gina:
That is one of the most adorable puppies ever and who can resist little puppy barks. What is the breed?
Gina
@bemused: I don’t know, but I see his name is Jango, which is all kinds of awesome.
Truthiness
Since Kyl’s Congressional Record is a lie, it’s up to the internet to find out the truth about John Kyl.
I think it would be pretty irresponsible not to speculate about this man’s life.
Anton Sirius
@Metatron:
I would’ve settled for ANY of the other Senators calling Kyl out for his bullshit.
patrick II
“…That’s what planned parenthood does” is still a lie, just a somewhat more ambiguous lie so it isn’t so easily called. Abortion is a small, (3%) part of what Planned Parenthood does –seeing after the health of women.
So publicly catching Kyle in a lie leads to only a different, but as harmful as possible, lie.
NeenerNeener
@Gina: It could be a Border Collie, an English Shepherd or an Australian Shepherd with an undocked tail. He’s cuter than a bug’s ear, whatever he is.
maya
Sieg Kyl!
Thoughtcrime
NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL(R)
A Republican is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL(R) person.
Trickle down is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL(R) economic theory.
A Republican appointee is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL(R) based judge.
Conservatism is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL(R) ideology.
FOX News is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL(R) source of information.
etc.
Thoughtcrime
NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL®
A Republican is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL® person.
Trickle down is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL® economic theory.
A Republican appointee is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL® judge.
Conservatism is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL® ideology.
FOX News is NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FACTUAL® source of information.
etc.
Alan flatt
Thr revision draws even more attention to the lie….soon it will become a word of art, as in telling a “Kyl”.
DPirate
Let’s get Barney Frank to read the original transcript back into the record.