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- Title: Social Researchers, Right-Wing Demagogues, And the "Blank Space" in American Democracy (Editorial)
- Author : Social Work Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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On April 8, 2011, less than a fortnight ago as I write, minority whip Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) announced on the Senate floor that "if you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood. And that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" (Collins, 2011). Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards quickly countered that the real figure is actually 3% (Bassett, 2011). Later that day, Kyl's press secretary, Ryan Patmintra, reported to CNN that the 90% figure "was not intended to be a factual statement" (Nowicki, 2011). PolitiFact (2011b), a 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan Web site dedicated to evaluating the truthfulness of political assertions, concluded that Kyl's statement greatly exaggerated Planned Parenthoods involvement in providing abortions. Kyl eventually admitted to misrepresenting an estimate he had taken from a report published by the Chiaroscuro Foundation (2011), a nonprofit, pro-life group (Nowicki, 2011). Commenting on the Kyl debacle, syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts (2011) concluded that his review of 100 "pants on fire" political statements (that is, assertions that are untrue and that make ridiculous claims) evaluated on PolitiFact indicated that
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