In this episode of The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, President Obama celebrates at the Lincoln Memorial, Sen. Jon Kyl rounds up abortion statistics to the nearest 90, and “Fox & Friends” explains why there’s no need for Planned Parenthood.
I can’t believe Stephen was able to keep a straight face as long as he did.. If I’d have had a beverage in my hand, and was drinking from it, it would have shot straight out my nose!
Colbert, once again on a roll, followed up with this amazing piece of work:
I’m afraid Jon Kyl will need to change his name after this. This was so “OUT THERE”, he’ll never be able to live this down. If you don’t believe me, check out this Twitter page! I’m afraid this man has lost ALL credibility.
It is simply amazing to me how loose and free some of these Republicans are with the numbers.. and the truth for that matter. It’s embarrassing.
UPDATE: I guess I should have mentioned that all this kerfuffle was about a ‘mis-statement’ (well, gross exaggeration) that Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) made on the floor of the Senate while arguing for a ‘policy rider’ to the funding bill that would defund Planned Parenthood. In his argument, he made the false claim that over 90% of what services Planned Parenthood provides goes for abortions.
Senator Kyl: Everybody goes to clinics, to doctors, to hospitals, so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don’t have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.
It wasn’t entirely accurate.. Only 3% of services provided by Planned Parenthood go towards abortions, and zero percent of those are paid for by tax dollars. When called out for his enormous error in math, and in an attempt for Kyl to walk it back, a statement from Senator Kyl’s office was released and reported on by CNN including this little catchphrase: “His remark was not intended to be a factual statement..”
Stephen Colbert took Kyl to task for it in these videos. Colbert then started the Twitter craze. This won’t be forgotten any time soon.
Oh stars above – you are so correct Kyl and those buffoons on Fux are completely divorced from reality.
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They must have taken down that Tweet/Twitter – clicking the link brings up this:
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Thank you for recommending (I think it was you) Deadly Choices
Amazing how much publicity idiocy gets – and results from scientific trials very little, if any.
I’ll fix it in the morning, but in the meantime, go to Twitter.com and put this in the search engine:
#Notintendedtobefactualstatement
Very entertaining.
Hmmmm… I wonder if you have to be signed up for Twitter for the link to work. It works fine for me when I click on it.
Basically, just go to Twitter and type that thing into the search engine.
( #Notintendedtobefactualstatement )
Muse, I was able to go through the url you gave – it was very funny.
(I don’t have twitter/tweet – that could have been it-thanks for the direction to that site)
Very very good, Colbert has his moments…. this was definitely one.