In an age in which the mainstream media seems all but asleep at the switch, politicians make a daily habit of lying their butts off whenever it suits them and rarely get called out for it. So it comes as a shock when someone prominent does get pegged for their whopper – although it’s often clever comedians Stewart, Colbert, or Maher who get there first, goading journalists and pundits into covering such stories as well. (Which is why so many people get their news from Stewart & Co. in the first place.)A wonderful recent example comes in the form of Republican Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, who apparently got so whipped up in the current frenzy of false claims on the deficit that he made this especially outrageous statement about our boogeyman du jour, Planned Parenthood...
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