Posted on 08/20/2012 11:31:17 AM PDT by nhwingut
Now that Mitt Romney has come out with two different statements strongly condemning Republican senate candidate Todd Akin's comments about rape and abortion, the media finds that they will need to gin up another reason to aid and abet Barack Obama in tying these comments to a Romney-Ryan ticket.
To the rescue rides the ever-insufferable Carol Costello.
This morning, CNN's Costello was almost as giddy to talk about the damage the media wants Akin's comments to do to the GOP brand as MSNBC's Chuck Todd (who could not stop smiling as he concern-trolled). After covering Akin's comments, Costello brought on a couple of guests to debate the topic -- one leftist and one conservative. But it wasn't until the end of the segment that Costello played the card meant to tie Akin's outrageous comment to GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
What Costello and her left-wing guest do here is attempt to create a new narrative thread for the media to chew on. It's obvious the media will now move into a second phase that ties Akin's stupid use of the term "legitimate rape" to a bill GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan signed on to that uses the term "forcible rape."
Costello is intentionally attempting to create an equivalency between "legitimate rape" and "forcible rape" where absolutely none exists.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Perhaps Akin can withdraw and get Whoopi “it’s not rape rape” Goldberg’s job. I mean, being against killing a baby is soft on rape? How about punishing rapists instead of babies? Where do these hypocrites stand on defunding ACORN?
Carol Costello is desperate.
I don’t think you have any medical basis to support those comments about pregnancy...in any event it seemingly trivializes the whole concept of rape to put it in those terms, and it certainly is not something to have as part of a branding of the party or a campaign platform.
If he does not drop out and drop out soon, this could potentially turn into a monumental disaster for the entire party nationwide...it has certainly already taken some of the wind out of the sails on our side that this is now part of the national narrative.
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