ultimately deceitful
“Ironically, Planned Parenthood said as late as September that Blagojevich doesn’t play political games.”
I have to ask what would prompt PP to make such a statement. The answer I come up with is that they had to deny the truth. If it were true, no one would have been asking them and they would not have felt compelled to say so.
It sounds very much like the kid who just ate all the cookies and then runs to announce to his mother that he is not the one who ate the cookies. Something made him suddenly decide to announce it.