And what was that?
Just what you said in your original post to me:
If he would have used valid instead of legitimate, and prefaced it with invalid examples being the Tawana Brawley and Duke Lacrosse team false claims of rape he would have still been pilloried by the press, but it would have been easier to combat.
However I don't think most people who heard Akin's comments understood specifically what he meant.
The rest of Akin's comments were probably worse, though. There's NO defending these bizarre statements (in bold) by Akin:
"Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
-- Todd Akin (August 19, 2012)
Ok thanks.
Yep, he talk too much. And unfortunately his foot in his mouth didn’t muffle the words.