Here's what pisses me off Damo. Either you're so stupid you think I won't call you out on this manufactured outrage or you're so stupid you knew the truth and decided to ignore it.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_22631166?stopRedirect=true
No "gotcha" on Joe Salazar rape comments
The overwrought response to state Rep. Joe Salazar's awkward reference to rape is manufactured outrage.
ByThe Denver PostEditorial Board
The klutzy and now well-publicized comments state Rep. Joe Salazar made about rape were ill-advised and deserve criticism in their own right.
But to suggest, as some have, that his blunder approaches Todd Akin territory is a desperate reach fueled by Republicans tired of having
to absorb gaffes by members of their own party.
Akin, of course, is the Republican U.S. Sen
candidate from Missouri who created a backlash against the GOP when he said women who were victims of "legitimate rape" rarely got pregnant because their bodies shut down. It is a preposterous notion.
So, when Salzar, a Democrat, brought up rape during a debate on carrying concealed
weapons on college campuses, he was entering an already politically charged arena.
The freshman representative from Thornton says he was trying to express the opinion that an armed woman on campus could feel threatened and potentially misjudge someone's intentions and shoot in error.
But some took his awkwardly worded comments to mean that women can't tell when they're being raped, which clearly doesn't fit within the context of his statement.