“Akin didn’t make a GAFFE, he showed he’s fundamentally ignorant of basic biology!
How so? Your statement isn’t true simply because you make it instead of substantiating it.”
He used the word legitimate. That is not a gaffe. It has a very distinct meaning in the way he used it, and then he backed it up with his statement on “shutting it down”. The two statements go hand in hand and support each other.
It was not a gaffe. He said what he meant and he meant what he said.