Liberal Forum

Yesterday morning (4-8) Sen. Jon Kyl [R-AZ] took to the Senate floor and insisted that any budget bill that was agreed upon must cut Planned Parenthoods funding. In the process, he made a blatantly false claim about the type of services the organization provides:KYL: Everybody goes to clinics, to doctors, to hospitals, so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you dont 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 thats well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.Watch ItThat is really sad, because I never considered John Kyl to be a Flying Monkey, but he sure is acting like one.Abortion accounts for only 3% of the services offered by PP.Of course Kyl was forced to walk back his statement. This is the statement his office issued:"His remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, does subsidize abortions." LinkNot intended to be a factual statement? Seriously?So how are we supposed to know, when one of our members of Congress makes a statement on the floor of the House of the Senate, whether or not it's factual?Silly me, I think anything they submit into the official record shoud be factual.I guess that's too much to ask.I can see being off by a few percentage points, but there's quite a bit of distance between 3% and over 90%.