Stephen and Stefon

I watched Saturday Night Live Saturday night and enjoyed the opening skit with Newt Gingrich, Moon President. It's seeming more and more likely that we will soon have our 51st state up there. (Note the poll in right hand column. Be sure to cast your vote.)

There's also been news lately of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood. I also found this concerning Ari Fleischer and Komen.

All of this made me think of previous posts about John Kyl and Planned Parenthood.

MythBusters Meet John Kyl
Not Intended to be a Factual Statement
It is Enough That It Be Truthy

Anyway, to bring all this together with the title of this post, I happened upon this about Stephen Colbert at Gawker. You can watch Stephen talking about John Kyl and his "not intended to be a factual statement" statement. It's about four minutes long and at times, Stephen has a difficult time keeping a straight face. It reminded me of Stefon on Saturday Night Live. He also often has a difficult time keeping a straight face. You can watch this clip at hulu of Stefon giving his suggestions for fun Valentine ideas. That also runs about four minutes.

It's fun to watch both Stephen and Stefon trying to keep straight faces but laughing as they speak into the camera. Once a person starts laughing, it is not easy to get back to being serious.

Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement

Remember when Jon Kyl had to backtrack on his comments about Planned Parenthood? Apparently what he said was not intended to be a factual statement.

And so Stephen Colbert and his Colbert Nation have had a field day with that phrase. Stephen said that there were nearly 77,000,000 tweets per minute using "Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement."

Disclaimer:That previous statement is Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement. (Stephen never said that.)

I think the real number was closer to 46 tweets per minute.

However, Stephen did say, "Jon Kyl is gay." (Banner at bottom of screen: "Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement.")

But, think of the impact this will have. The Ten Commandments can be rewritten. "Thou shall not make a statement which is Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement."

or

Mom to Jimmy: "Jimmy, did you throw a rock through this window?"

Jimmy to Mom: "No." (Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement and therefore Jimmy doesn't have to go sit in the corner.)

But now that we know all this and have all the terms properly identified, we can expect that the next time Jon Kyl says something as false and misleading as his Planned Parenthood statement, we will see and hear Joe Wilson, jumping to his feet, pointing at Jon Kyl and yelling, "You are saying something that is Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement!"

And this time, Joe Wilson will actually be telling the truth.

MythBusters Meet Jon Kyl

Stephen had some news about Jon Kyl on tonight's show. Senator Kyl, Republican from Arizona, stated with a straight face that abortion was well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does. But then his office said, well it's not like that was meant to be factual. Apparently, it's just something that he said. Sort of like a myth.

It's kind of like the friends over at Fox and Friends saying something like Planned Parenthood is unnecessary for women's health for things like blood pressure checks, Pap Smears and breast checks because they can get all that at Walgreens. Oh, no. Another myth! You can't get Pap Smears at Walgreens. Walgreens does have some information about Pap Smears at their website, but they are certainly not health providers.

Stephen interviewed the MythBusters (Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage) tonight. He offered them ideas for several excellent myths that should be either busted or not busted. Time will tell if they consider his ideas.

And then on a lighter note, here is what Mike Pence (Republican from Indiana) said when talking about the Government Shutdown being averted. Note, he did not speak in complete sentences all of the time, so bear with me as I try to transcribe what he said.

"We're trying we're trying to score a victory for the Republican people for the American for the Republican people. We're trying to score a victory for the American people not to the Republican Party." It's hard to know if what he was saying was a myth or not, mostly because it's hard to know what he was saying.

Anyway, it was a time for myths tonight when what we actually need is a time for Truthiness in the Nation.

Note: I changed the incorrect spelling of Myth Busters on April 12. See posting from April 12 about Mythbusters. But I left the capital or uppercase "B" just to give it special attention for the TV show.