Did you know that Jon Kyl calls the underside of his Senate seat "The Booger Graveyard"? Or that he once ate a badger he hit with his car? Of course, this was not intended to be a factual statement.

Only in politics can you go from non-factual to non-existent: Jon Kyl's statement that 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's activities are related to abortion -- which drew mockery when he explained it was "not intended to be a factual statement" and the number actually proved to be three percent -- has been stricken from the Congressional Record. What a tangled web we weave Mr. Kyl!

According to Time:

Clearly embarrassed by his misspeak, Kyl made use of a provision to strike the statement from the official Congressional Record. The Library of Congress notes that senators are allowed to “edit the transcript of their floor remarks before publication in the daily record or the permanent record.”

As it reads in print, the remark has been clarified to erase the mention of any numbers. It reads: "If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that is what Planned Parenthood does." Thank you for the factual statement, Senator Kyl.





 

 

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