[Mr. Lucky]

I see.

A Republican senate candidate makes a politically insensitive, wholly inane, demonstrably false claim regarding the physiology of a woman during rape and it's the media's fault for jumping on it?

[Antoninus]

A Republican senate candidate makes a politically insensitive, wholly inane, demonstrably false claim regarding the physiology of a woman during rape and it's the media's fault for jumping on it?

No, it's the media's fault for turning one questionable comment into "GOP says women must accept rape" meme and the Romney-idiots fault for giving credence to that meme with their weak, meandering and defensive responses, most of which focused on bashing the GOP senate candidate in question.

The proper response would have been a thorough-going defense of the entire pro-life position writ-large for the whole country to see. Such a presentation, done by an articulate and affable candidate (Romney was neither), would have made the media back off immediately.

But the GOP didn't do that either because 1.) they are stupid or 2.) the leadership is not really pro-life anymore. They just pretend to be for votes.

[exDemMom]

A Republican senate candidate makes a politically insensitive, wholly inane, demonstrably false claim regarding the physiology of a woman during rape and it's the media's fault for jumping on it?

No, a candidate misspoke in the stress of the moment and said "legitimate" when the proper word was clearly "bona fide."

He was factually correct, in everything that he said. His mistake was in assuming that the average person is as well-informed on the issue as he.

The uninformed media misrepresented what he said and jumped all over him. And the Republican establishment joined in the jumping.

If you ever wonder why conservatism is losing ground, it's because of this. Republicans and conservatives are too quick to throw people on the bus when the media criticizes them. It doesn't matter if the person didn't do anything to deserve criticism. The media uses the tactic to take down conservatives because it works. Until Republicans and conservatives learn to stand up to the media--to point out that the media lies--to use language as emotionally charged as that of the left, but in defense of the truth--and to defend our own--we will keep losing.