{"id":954,"date":"2012-08-22T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=954"},"modified":"2012-08-22T00:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:05:44","slug":"i-was-talking-about-the-american-people-being-legitimately-raped-by-my-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/22\/i-was-talking-about-the-american-people-being-legitimately-raped-by-my-party\/","title":{"rendered":"“I Was Talking About The American People Being Legitimately Raped by My Party…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“From what I understand, which is not much, when my party rapes the American public, it has a way of shutting down.”<\/p><\/div>\n

(St. Louis, MO) Rep. Todd Akin made a follow-up appearance on KTVI-TV today to explain his controversial comment that women who are “legitimately raped” do not get pregnant.<\/p>\n

“I mis-spoke and I’m terribly sorry. What I meant to say was that When the AMERICAN PUBLIC is legitimately raped by my party, they have a way of shutting down so they won’t get hurt. That’s what I’ve heard from an economist friend of mine.”<\/p>\n

“See, I don’t support any kind of controls on Wall Street or banks because I know when the American public gets legitimately raped by them, it isn’t really affected.”<\/p>\n

“If the American public complains about it, how do we know it wasn’t asking for it?”<\/p>\n

“They shouldn’t have choice. There should be no exceptions. Even if the economy dies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(St. Louis, MO) Rep. Todd Akin made a follow-up appearance on KTVI-TV today to explain his controversial comment that women who are “legitimately raped” do not get pregnant. “I mis-spoke and I’m terribly sorry. What I meant to say was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,4,135],"tags":[586,585,35,51],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offensive","category-political-comedy","category-troutboysblog","tag-insane-idiots","tag-rep-todd-akin","tag-republicans","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}