Not a Lie Not Misrepresentation Simply Not Intended To Be a Factual Statement

As a purveyor of entertaining fictions,  I was fascinated to hear what his staffers said about Jon Kyl's statement that Planned Parenthood spent 90% of their time performing abortions. They said, and I quote, what Kyl said "was not intended as a factual statement".  However you feel about the issue, it might boggle the mind that inaccuracy is somehow OK.

But I got to thinking, here we are, we novelists, forced to jump through hoops on the copyright page of our novels, with all this rigmarole about "any resemblance to persons lliving or dead blah blah blah..."

We could be saving an awful lot of ink if we could just state "Nothing in this book is intended to be factual".

N'est-ce pas?

Originally posted 4/16/11.