#NotIntendedToBeA FactualStatement

[Electric Monk]

(I had to add a space in the headline for it to post here)



http://twitter.com/search?q=%23NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/12/stephen-colberts-not-factual-hashtagging/

It was a remark seemingly made for late-night TV comics: Sen. Jon Kyl's claim that abortion is "well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does."

When the actual figure turned out to be 3%, his office released a statement clarifying that Kyl's figure was "not intended to be a factual statement."

Enter Stephen Colbert. The Comedy Central host lampooned the line on last night's show... but it turns out he was just getting started.

Colbert, tweeting as @StephenAtHome, began posting some not-so-factual statements about Kyl, beginning with "Jon Kyl is one of Gaddafi's sexy female ninja guards #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement." Since then, he's launched more than 30 such broadsides, all bearing that exculpatory hashtag, including:

Jon Kyl is an accomplished nude hula dancer. He is not welcome in Hawaii.
For the past 10 years, Jon Kyl has been two children in a very convincing Jon Kyl suit.
Jon Kyl cheated on Sandra Bullock.
Once a year, Jon Kyl retreats to the Arizona desert and deposits 2 million egg sacs under the sand.
Citing religious reasons, Jon Kyl refuses to utter the number 8.
Jon Kyl once ate a badger he hit with his car.
Carly Simon wrote that song about Jon Kyl.
Legally, Jon Kyl cannot be within 100 yards of Helen Mirren.
Jon Kyl has a shrine to Scooter from the Muppet Show.
Jon Kyl developed his own line of hair care products just so he could test them on bunnies.
Jon Kyl was sent from the future to kill Sarah Conner.

more

[tabatha]

1. Enoyed reading those.

If Twitter can function as a fast fact checker -- all the more power. Politicians need to know that Fox can't cover up all their lies.

[nashville_brook]

2. here's another

Everything you would only do in the privacy of your own home, Jon Kyl prefers to do on a subway car.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Jon Kyl elected to change vitter diapers

[woo me with science]

4. That's what's in the little tiny print

under infomercials and campaign promises.

[pacalo]

5. Hahaaa! Thinking up my own now, giving myself an earworm.

It was Jon Kyle's feet in the stall next to Larry Craig's.

Jon Kyle stole the book of love.

[cui bono]

6. My friend just told me about this.

:rofl:

[Electric Monk]

7. Jon Kyl throws babies at the elderly

#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement

[Electric Monk]

8. Sen. Jon Kyl maintains email accounts with Prodigy, AOL and Earthlink, covering all bases.

[seabeyond]

9. this has been a hoot the last couple nights on colbert. nt

[Electric Monk]

10. Jon Kyl's identical twin had a sex change and renamed herself Henrietta Lacks