It’s the question no one from the press is asking.  Who is lying?

Over the weekend a video of Sen. John Kyl at a North Tempe town hall meeting shot through the internet like a bullet.  The video showed Sen. Kyl revealing to his constituents that President Obama was holding border security ransom for better bargaining position on comprehensive immigration reform.


The White House responded on Monday morning with a flat denial.  Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said: “The President didn’t say that.  Sen. Kyl knows the President didn’t say that.”  That last phrase is inflammatory as it flatly claims that Sen. Kyl is deliberately lying about this issue.

Rather than let the matter die as a “he said, he said” story, bloggers scoured the internet for any other corroborating facts to bolster one position or the other.  Yesterday, Naked Emperor News uncovered audio from an interview Sen. Obama gave to local public radio in Chicago.  In it, he strikes the same juxtaposition of “trading-off” border security for comprehensive immigration reform, exactly as Sen. Kyl suggested: (more…)