The background to this little dust-up doesn’t go back to a local TV interview but further than that as this article back in March indicates:
“The background to this little dust-up doesn’t go back to a local TV interview but further than that”.
It goes back even farther than March 2012.
Charles Jaco, the man who interviewed Todd Akin, is a left-wing goon who has a history of manipulating interviews with political candidates.
Back in 2002, a reporter from KMOX Radio interviewed Cathy Enz, a Republican candidate running against Democrat Dick Gephardt in the MO 3rd Congressional District. Enz’ staff were all aghast when the recorded interview was broadcast on the radio. Jaco, who worked at KMOX at the time, took the ENZ interview, played excerpts exclusively for Gephardt and then allowed him to refute her statements, without allowing Enz any opportunity for rebuttal to her opponent’s comments. The interview was incompetent, partisan journalism at its worst; a set-up designed to unfairly disparage a candidate and affect an election.
Todd Akin was also set up by Jaco, in an attempt to find some ill stated comment and distort it in order to ridicule Akin. My guess is that the video of the interview was probably being scrutinized in the McCaskill headquarters within ten minutes of completion.
I happened to be watching the Akin interview that Sunday morning and wasn’t taken aback by his “notorious comment”. I understood Akin was meaning to say forced rape, as opposed to statutory rape. And as a woman myself, I understand the complex female reproductive system and am aware that stress and, most certainly, trauma CAN (can, not will) cause impending ovulation to be delayed or halted. No ovulation means no pregnancy. Does that mean pregnancy will not occur in case of rape? Of course not! If ovulation has already occurred at the time of unprotected intercourse, rather it is rape or consensual sex, pregnancy is likely to occur.
Todd Akin’s gaffe was not worthy of destruction of his political career. He did not do anything illegal or immoral. He was not disparaging women who were impregnated by rape. His words were sadly misconstrued by some people and deliberately distorted by political operatives in efforts to sway the November election.