(Rosen audio added, as bad as it reads – promoted by Colorado Pols)
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Conservative talk-radio hosts are fairly unified in their condemnation of GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s statement that the female body has a natural ability to identify and repel the sperm of rapists.
But they’ve been a bit more iffy on the question of how serious it was for Akin, who’s vowing not to drop out of the Missouri Senate race, to distinguish between “legitimate” rape from other kinds.
“If you’re a guy, and you throw the word ‘legitimate’ in front of rape, you’re in trouble,” KLZ radio host Jason Worley told listeners Monday. “You’re already in trouble. If that was all he did, he could actually come back, and he honestly could, and say, what I meant was ‘actual’ rape cases, like when there was a crime committed…He may have been able to come back from it.”
KOA’s Mike Rosen also sort of defended Akin:
“He had a very ill-phrased remark, put his foot in the mouth, talking about whether abortion should be allowed in cases, as he put it, of ‘legitimate’ rape. What he meant to say was in the case of very clear forcible rape. In any event, this is an area into which he should not have gone.”
These radio wordsmiths have developed new categories of rape. For Worley, it’s “actual” rape cases, presumably versus the fake kind.
For Rosen, it’s “very clear forcible” rape cases.
By adding the adverb “very clear,” Rosen is one-upping Rep. Mike Coffman, Rep. Cory Gardner, Rep. Doug Lamborn, and Rep. Scott Tipton, who all voted to redefine the definition of rape so that federal funding would only be available for “forcible” rape, not other kinds,
For Rosen, it looks like only the “very forcible” kind of rape counts?
I didn’t get a chance to listen to all our favorite radio hosts, but one can only imagine all the other categories of rape that they might come up with.
Please send me any and all new rape categories that you hear from conservative radio hosts. I’m working on a comprehensive list that I want to share with the talk-radio crowd, to see if I can get them on the same page, like they are so often when it comes to President Obama.
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I hope I live to see the Tea Partyers invade KOA and carry out Mike Rosen, and do the modern day equivalent of tar and feather…and ride him out of town.
I am dumbfounded. What adjective will suffice to describe such insensitivity? …I don’t know.
But I recommend a book. Written in the seventies. Germaine Greer allowed me, in the pages of her book, “Seduction is a Four Letter Word”, to understand that rape is one of the most de-humanizing things one person can do to another. It is fundamentally cruel.
Period.