{"id":3531,"date":"2011-04-15T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2011-04-15T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:09:15","slug":"im-calling-bullst-on-john-kyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/04\/im-calling-bullst-on-john-kyl.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m calling “bulls*%t” on John Kyl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>First rule of holes: when you’re in one… stop digging.\u00a0 This is a lesson Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) has not yet grokked.<\/p>\n

Kyl has been lampooned<\/a> in recent days after his office clarified his wildly inaccurate comments<\/a> about Planned Parenthood on the Senate Floor last week by telling CNN it was \u201cnot intended to be a factual statement<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not content with looking like a world class ass, Kyl has now compounded his lie<\/a> by saying yesterday that he merely \u201cmisspoke\u201d on the floor, and that he had not approved his aide to utter the now classic Twitter hash-tag. (#notintendedtobeafactualstatement)<\/p>\n

There’s only one little problem Senator:\u00a0 if we take you at your word that you meant to say 3% of Planned Parenthood activity is abortions, but the 90% number slipped out instead, we have to accept that when you got up on the floor to speak<\/a>, you intended to offer statistics that didn’t support your point.\u00a0 Your whole speech was basically an assertion that Planned Parenthood pretty much only existed to kill babies and didn’t serve any other useful purpose.\u00a0 The truthful 3% number doesn’t really support that position now does it?<\/p>\n

Let’s face it, you lied.\u00a0 You lied with the intent to persuade the ignorant.\u00a0 And you got busted… big time.<\/p>\n

Politically,\u00a0 it seemed you were better off with the “not intended as a factual statement” excuse. While it was an admission that you were prone to fits of wild hyperbole, at least it didn’t admit that you were a lying sack of s*%t willing to intentionally deceive the public to get your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not content with looking like a world class ass, Kyl has now compounded his lie by saying yesterday that he merely \u201cmisspoke\u201d on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,43,29,22,41,90],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservatives","tag-economic-policy","tag-federal-regulations","tag-political-ideology","tag-republicans","tag-words-matter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}