Todd Akin’s Pathetic Attempt To Defend ‘Legitimate Rape’ Goes Down In Flames

[DonViejo]

BY IGOR VOLSKY JULY 17, 2014 AT 10:21 AM UPDATED: JULY 17, 2014 AT 10:30 AM

Former Republican Congressman Todd Akin appeared on MSNBC on Thursday to hawk his new book and defend the now-infamous comments that doomed his 2012 Senate campaign. During an interview in August of 2012, Akin told a local TV station that pregnancy that results from rape is “really rare,” adding, “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

In the bizarre 7-minute exchange with host Chuck Todd, Akin invented an entirely new rationale for those comments, suggested that President Bill Clinton is guilty of rape, and clung to the discredited science that underpinned his assertions. Watch it:

“Legitimate rape is a law enforcement term and its abbreviation for legitimate case of rape,” he began, insisting that he used the term “because of the fact that it’s an abbreviation” for “legitimate case of rape.”

“The thing that strikes me as odd is this is something that was intentionally misunderstood and twisted for political purposes,” he explained, “because it doesn’t make any sense to say a conservative is saying that rape is legitimate.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/07/17/3461252/todd-akins-pathetic-attempt-to-defend-legitimate-rape-goes-down-in-flames/

[monmouth3]

1. Did Chuckie shut him down? n/t

[TlalocW]

2. If we take his explanation at face value

And that he misspoke, and it is a law enforcement term, that doesn't change the fact that he thinks a woman's body can somehow, "shut it down."

TlalocW