Only bizarre if you fall for the contrived group-think that someone says something that dares touch on a topic about women and all women use their collective brain to denounce them. This is a very cultural marxist view.

There is no question women lie about rape, so what’s the issue?

I think the issue is more that Rep. Akin doesn’t really seem to understand basic human biology, and the idea of having a senator who doesn’t understand basic human biology makes a lot of people uneasy. But you have clearly made up your mind, and seem pretty comfortable with making generalizations about women yourself!

RAPE IS A CRIME and the percentage of proven reported false rapes is nothing in comparison with the stupidity you show on this issue “That there is no question women lie about rape”. sarah was nice to you on this issue and i ain’t Sarah.

You are the ignorant scum that gives rise to the term BAD AMERICAN, women get raped PERIOD and RAPE IS RAPE and it is a crime.

Wait so those who oppose Akin’s idiocy are simply engaging in “marxist, group think”, or whatever, aka believers in basic biology and science — of course Akin’s 300 or so supporters, are FREEDOM-LOVIN, INDEPENDENT, BRAVE PATRIOTS!

Stockholm syndrome is an empirically supportable, psychological phenomenon. We’ve seen observable examples: Kidnap victims who bond w/ their abductors, domestic violence victims who stand by their abusers, Black slaves who stood by the confederate south…Ideologically speaking, stockholm brainwashing has become so effective in our hyper-partisan world, that some women can even stand behind a man who has blatantly cruel constructs about rape and pregnancy.

Wow, you’re a retard.
Yes some women lie about being raped but there are many more who don’t come foward because people won’t beleive them so they suffer in silence.
Furthermore it isn’t that women lie about rape but that this man doesn’t have a understanding of fundamental human reproductive biology.

Have you heard that Akin also believes that women who AREN’T pregnant are getting abortions?

I guess he believes women are too stupid to know how to read a home pregnancy test or there are a large number of doctors who lie to women about being pregnant so they can perform these phantom abortions.

Women supporting Todd Akin is like gay chickens supporting the Chi-fil-a president.

some MEN lie about rape too you know.

Dumb clucks?

When I first heard Akin’s ‘legitimate rape’ comment, I thought he was referring to false claims of rape, like the Duke case.
However, in that same sentence, Akin also stated his belief that a woman has a magical vajay-jay that automatically dispenses it’s own spermicide when she is raped, to ‘shut the whole thing down,’ as he put it.
So, the whole narrative of Akin ‘misspeaking’ is utter crapola, designed I believe to distract from what was at that time, ‘the most jaw-droppingly asinine thing a politician has said since the last thing a Republican said,’ because he has an election to win.
Of course, currently the title of ‘the most jaw-droppingly asinine thing a politician has said since the last thing a Republican said’ has once again resulted in a tie, with Braun’s “All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all of that is lies straight from the pit of hell” and Hubbard’s explanation of slavery as actually a “…blessing in disguise” for black people in America.
That’s a hell of a party you got there, Republicans.

Sarah, please do us all a favor and refrain from discussing Missouri politics. You can’t go go around condemning Akin, who is a real conservative and not condemn the idiot named Emmanuel Cleaver that said not too long ago, that “blacks deserved to be stripped of their blackness” for not voting for Obama. They aren’t voting against their interests. You see, because unlike brain-dead liberal women, conservatives don’t limit a women to the sum of her lady parts. As if that’s the issue that’s most pressing to women — when their unemployment rate is horrendous.

I will never, for the life of me, understand how someone so stupid can yet still manage to make his fingers work well enough to troll.
In that same sentence, Akin also stated his belief that a woman has a magical vajay-jay that automatically dispenses it’s own spermicide when she is raped, to ‘shut the whole thing down,’ as he put it, the thing being the legitmate rapist’s spermatozoa.
Please reply and defend that comment as the OED is currently updating and needs a new example of antomnyms for the entry on integrity.

Well, unfortunately “a liberal person saying something offensive and terrible” doesn’t automatically cancel out a conservative person saying something offensive and terrible. The good news is, we’re allowed to be mad about both!

Inbreds deserve what they get.
The parts of America that run the deepest Red?
Also the ones that suck in the most tax dollars relative to what they pay out.
Also the areas with lowest educational outcomes.
Also the areas with the greatest poverty.
Also the most religious.

Hmmm gotta be a connection between willful ignorance and voting Repugnican…..

My own point is that you should refrain from any righteous indignation if you aren’t going to criticize Cleaver as well. He made a stupid comment, so what? He’s apologized. Let’s move along with our lives.

Well, I think that argument only works if you believe that what Akin did was “misspeak” and not “exhibit a stunning level of ignorance about how women’s bodies work.” I don’t think he “misspoke” or “made a stupid comment,” I think he said exactly what he believes, which happens to be horrifying and wrong. And Cleaver’s comments, while they may also be offensive, really don’t have anything to do with Todd Akin.

If you have to ask “so, what’s the issue,” and especially precede that question with the claim that “there is no question women lie about rape,” as if a large percentage of them lie about it, then, you, Mr. Price, are the issue.

For goodness sakes, he’s not a doctor. You can bang the table all you want. I don’t begrudge any politician for making an error about a medical issue, they aren’t deities. I don’t expect the idiotic democrats that serve with him in Missouri to know any better, unless they are in the medical profession.

Anyway, get used to saying Sen. Akin because he is going to win his state spectacularly because of the sum of his voting record. I’m glad that he has the courage to own up to a mistake and not say he “inhaled” or any other excuse. McCaskill is a disgrace. Good day.

Your point is wrong on many levels, especially in this instance.
First, yes, Cleaver’s comments were stupid.
But, Cleaver is not running for office this time around. Maybe if he were running I’d buy part of your argument.
Second, Cleaver actually supported Hillary Clinton in 2008. So I know what he said doesn’t recently doesn’t exactly fit with his view of things.
Third, one knows that a person cannot be “stripped of their blackness,” but one also knows that rapes do happen and that they are heinous acts.
4th, Akin not only made his comment about “legitimate rape”; he also said that there is a mechanism women have for preventing conception if she is raped. This is a medieval belief other Republicans have held and have publicly stated for a long while….look at former Rep Henry Aldridge from North Carolina. In 1995, he said the following: “The facts show that people who are raped, who are truly raped, the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work, and they don’t get pregnant.” Sound very similar to what Akin said….Akin didn’t “misspeak”; he meant every single thing he said; he believed every single thing he said.
5th Akin sits on the House Committee for Science, Space, and Technology. When idiots like him and Paul Broun sit on a science committee, that is very scary for this country. Now is the chance to show how dangerous Akin really is for not only Missouri, but this country.
Lastly, you look at all of the incredibly stupid things Akin has said, and you can see that he is a far right religious, backward, nutjob. He has these crazy, deeply held views. I live in Missouri, and I do not want this idiot to represent our state, nor do I want him to affect the outcome of Senate votes.

You know, that isn’t even logical. To be indignant against Akin, you have to mention the indignancies caused by everyone else in Missouri? (because you know Cleaver isn’t the only other person in Missouri who has pissed people off.)

This article is about Akin and women, not about Cleaver and blacks. Cleaver has his own articles to worry about.

Ha!

i’m guessing that video i received in my email notification from disqus regarding my post is from you.
wow. just wow. after watching the debate, i got the feeling that romney was actually pathological with his penchance for lying. now, i am positive he is, and also thinking he probably is a sociopath.
of course, romney supporters who would view this video would just leap, leap like a coked-up leopard on steriods hunting the world’s fattest impala, onto the back of tu quoque logical fallacies about obama’s record of honesty, and ignore the reality playing out in front of them.
why can’t they hate obama and understand that romney is much, much worse?
thanks.

Did I? I’m not every sure I would know how to do that, but I completely agree with your sentiment about lesser evils, or, in my mind, evil and mediocrity.

And I will never, for the life of me, understand how someone so stupid can yet still manage to make his fingers work well enough to troll was hilarious.

this video was embeded in the disqus email notification regarding your reply to my reply. never got a video embed before so that’s why i assumed it was something linked to your account.
best part was when he was caught in a bold-faced lie and just kept lying, altering what he said just enough to try to weasel by, but it was on tape. instead of feeling remorse or shame, gets mad. all this follows the typical behavior of a pathological liar.
obama should just play this vid next debate. not say a word. just points to a slowly lowering screen and this video starts to play.
The Ultimate Mitt Romney Flip-Flop Collection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_pgfWK3sxw

To all the women who ‘stand with Akin”, I have to say that just proves that stupdity about the female body and its operation is not limited to the male sex!!!!
When a woman says NO, it means NO. There is no “legitimacy” about rape! Period.
And no, women do NOT have some magic in their bodies that protects them against pregnancy (or against STDs) when they are raped. And anyone who thinks so is a moron.
But that is to be expected from the same people who do not believe in ANY real science!
Those women who are standing with Akin need to ask themselves what they would think it THEIR daughters were raped. Would they know if it was legitimate? If they decided it was “legitimate” would they welcome pregnancy? Or suppose their college age daughter had a drink that contained some drug, and then was raped. Would they want to rely on a magic vagina to protect THEIR child against pregnancy or disease?

Your A self loathing liberal we already know who the spenders and losers are in America you should climb down off your self rightous cross and reflect on your hatred for your brothers ,sisters and your country .you are not any better than anyone we are all the same

Very Conservative of you.
Liberal: …generous, abundant, lavish, broadminded, tolerant, enlightened, charitable
Conservative: …stingy, miserly, reactionary, regressive, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, narrow-minded

As defined by the English Language.
http://www.politicalstrikes.com/thesaurus.html

Lets see, You said inbred and Repugnican.
Please strike broadminded and tolerant from your liberal section and add bigoted, prejudiced, biased, and narrow minded for your intolerance and generalization.
Oh, just to be the Devils Advocate, Akin obviously said something that is stupid, that cannot be denied by any means.

I am not “Liberalism” or all “Liberals”
Look up “anecdotal”
I am one progressive man who is FED up with the ire, bile, ignorance, and willful stupidity of sofa king many modern conservatives.

Ergo: Your proof that the English language is wrong…lmfao… is doubly absurd.

Oh, man, if their vaginas only knew…