Lowden denies chickens-for-checkups comment

Flash: Must-watch chickens-for-checkups video. Forget last night's results. This is way more important.

Exactly 42 days after Sue Lowden first committed the original chickens-for-checkups gaffe, she's still struggling to put it behind her -- and now she's explicitly denying originally making chicken-related assertions she plainly did make.

Lowden got into a testy exchange over chickens-for-checkups with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston at yesterday's GOP Senate primary debate, and Harry Reid's campaign has now posted the video:

Lowden rebukes her host, insisting that he go out and see for themselves that people are bartering for health care. But the best part comes towards the end.



Ralston directly confronts Lowden with her own words, and she denies ever saying them.

Ralston points out that Lowden talked about how people used to barter chickens for checkups in the old days, and he quotes her saying: "I'm not backing down from that system."

"No, I never said `from that system,'" Lowden shot back. "I never said, `from that system.'"

In reality, Lowden originally said: "Before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor... I'm not backing down from that system."

I have no idea how this affects Reid's reelection chances -- he's got a long way to go until November -- but it makes for much-needed entertainment after a very long night....