Todd Akin has given it some thought and he’s no longer sorry about that weird thing he said about rape
Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin — sorry about the nickname, Todd; some skidmarks just won’t wash out of the underpants — has a new book out today. Well, that’s what you do when you’re no longer electable because you said crazy things about the female body. The book is called Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and the Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom. Dog-whistle gun metaphor, check. Washington outsider stance, check. Dig at liberal media, check. “Faith,” check. “Freedom,” check. This title’s got it all!
Todd is steamed about the “media assassination” he suffered on account of expressing his belief that abortions in the case of rape should not be permissible, and that pregnancy from rape is “really rare” and that “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
After the media (liberals; they’re all liberals) went on attack against Akin, you might recall, he apologized. It didn’t make much of a difference; he ended up losing the Missouri U.S. Senate race to Sen. Claire McCaskill. Now Akin is taking back the apology.
“By asking the public at large for forgiveness,” Akin writes, according to Politico, which obtained an advance copy, “I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said.”
Akin adds: “My comment about a woman’s body shutting the pregnancy down was directed to the impact of stress on fertilization. This is something fertility doctors debate and discuss. Doubt me? Google ‘stress and fertilization,’ and you will find a library of research on the subject.”
Yesterday, in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Akin compared himself with Communist witch-hunt leader Joseph McCarthy, who was also vilified by the media?
“I use McCarthy as an example of someone who was assassinated by the media, so he had no credibility,” Akin said, just as he believes he was politically assassinated by “intentional and dishonest” distortions of what he said about rape and pregnancy in 2012.
Akin also resents all the GOP establishment figures who deserted him in his time of need. You don’t leave a fellow soldier dying out on the battlefield — you fire back! Ahem, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove and especially fellow Missourian Roy Blunt.
“Roy Blunt is good at politics and usually tries not to leave fingerprints on his handwork,” Akin writes. “This time he would leave a bloody war club with his fingerprints all over it.”
For more warlike metaphors and garden-variety tea-party talking points, pick up Firing Back at your local Amazon website today!
