‘Have some integrity’: Tennessee Republican confronted over lies about litter boxes in schools

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In the video, intercut with reports of people like Joe Rogan apologizing for spreading the false rumor of kitty litter boxes in schools, the Holler reporter asks Bowling if she ever apologized for “perpetuating the furries myth.”

Bowling says she didn’t.

In fact, she still insists it is true. It is still not true. It has never been true. Kitty litter is for children huddling in classrooms, afraid they will be killed—not for furries.

The man confronting the state senator reminds her that what she said was “a lie.” Bowling says it was not, and her proof is that she says she “met with the principal, and I met with the superintendent” of a school. The Holler reporter asks her which school. Bowling says, “In Franklin County,”  which is in Bowling’s district. But then Bowling changes her story, and says that these two people told her that they had students “that were allowed to use leashes.” This is also not a real thing; it’s just another thing she is lying about.

Here’s a related piece of information: About two weeks after Bowling’s statements in the Tennessee state senate, Franklin County High School Principal Dr. Roger Alsup told the Herald Chronicle that Bowling’s assertions were “absolutely not true.”

The Holler points out to Bowling that, beyond the fact that she’s full of shit, she is now changing her full-of-shit story into another load of bullshit. Bowling has the hubris to respond, “You know, there are a lot of things going on in the world today, and this is hardly important.” Wow, right?

The interviewer justifiably hounds Bowling as she waits for an elevator door, saying she really should apologize when she’s wrong about something like this: “It was a lie. Just apologize. Have some integrity.”

Bowling doubles down, because she clearly does not have even “some” integrity.

Here’s Janice Bowling and friends’ crappy statements of lies.

But just to show that I’m fair and balanced, Bowling has done one thing right: She’s tried and failed to promote municipal broadband legislation—which is a good thing.