Now a National Review article dated June 25, 2010
Nice try but you take it out of context.
Kyl Puts Border Remarks in New Context - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In the meeting with Tea Party members, the senator said he and the president were alone at the White House and – giving his audience a belated fly-on-the-wall moment – Mr.Kyl confided, “Here’s what the president said: ‘The problem is,’ he said, ‘if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reforms.” Mr. Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the borders unless and until it is combined with comprehensive immigration reform.”
While the video has those remarks and more, on Friday the conservative National Review Online reported that Mr. Kyl said in an interview that he had been quoted out of context.
According to the magazine’s Web site:
Kyl tells us that the comments were “taken a bit out of context,” and that the “they” he was referring to was the left, “the president’s base,” and not the administration. “I did not try to start a fight. This meeting happened a month ago and we were talking in the context of his political problems. He was talking about how they think that if we secure the border, you guys [Republicans] won’t have the incentive to work on comprehensive immigration reform.”
After a week of debate in the blogosphere about who is telling the truth – Mr. Kyl or the White House – that ought to clear things up.