Not Intended to be a Factual Statement

on May 01, 2011 by Walt Dilg

 “I am sorry they took offense at what I said.”  That is the common apology these days.  The person does not apologize for what they said, they apologize that the hearers took it the way they did and got offended.  This is dissemblance at its highest order.  Shame on them!  Apologize if you offended, and really mean it, and then learn from it so you do not do it again.

Recently, this kind of dissemblance reached a new low.  A Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl stated a lie about Planned Parenthood funding and abortion.  When his office was called to respond to the actual facts, they responded  - the statement was “not intended to be a factual statement.”   Can you get your mind around that?  How on earth does he think he can get away with that?  Making an argument supposedly based on facts to persuade, yet not using actual facts in that argument!  Is this what Jon Kyl learned in debate class in high school, or is this what he learned from his church.  Shame on him!  We can do better than that.  We need to do better than that.  This is how far we have fallen in the public arena from being able to speak the truth, clearly. 

Lord have mercy!