At some point Sharron Angle needs to realize that when she goes on the radio or TV, there are audio and video tapes that can be replayed.
The latest "I never said that" from Angle came on Saturday night when she was asked about calling for the privatization of VA hospitals:
... We were discussing, at the time that I made that remark, we were discussing Obamacare and Medicare ... And I was talking about my father, who is 88 years old, he’s on Medicare, he’s on Social Security, and he’s a veteran ... yet he pays $800 a month in prescription drugs that are not covered by the VA and they’re not covered by Medicare. And, there is a lot of you that understand what I’m saying. And that was the context of those comments. I said that they could do a better job, that’s all I said, is the VA could do a better job for our veterans. And I believe that. I believe that our veterans fit in that A priority box. We should be supporting our military and their dependents (applause) and our veterans. We should be supporting them. We owe them. We owe them and we should be supporting them.
Not quite -- from last May:
Angle: … And my father did the same thing. He calls it his rocking chair pay but he doesn’t live on his social security, he has investments that he has made over the years in rental properties and things like that—that are actually paying for his retirement. He needs more and more supervised care. He’s 87 years old and has Parkinson’s and we have to pay more and more for his healthcare. I know he pays over 800 dollars a month in prescription drugs that we can’t get through his VA nor through Medicare—they just wont cover those things. And I know lots of seniors—
Becker: Should they cover those things?
Angle: No, not if you’re working towards a privatized system. And he can pay for them. That’s my whole point.
Of course it wasn't the first time Angle denied saying something that was readily available through the magical power of replay -- or the second, or the third ...
During Angle's latest adventure in revisionist history, she said:
... let’s remember that a half-truth is no truth.
Neither is a lie.
