Congressman Steve King — aka Todd Akin‘s number one fan — made big headlines yesterday when he claimed he, himself, had never heard of a girl getting pregnant via rape, giving credence to embattled Congressman Todd Akin’s claim that “legitimate” rape victims usually don’t get pregnant. But what do you know: Just three weeks ago, the Iowa Congressman — rated the most conservative in the entire House — while defending his remarks and vote to protect dog fighting (sick) actually talked about thirteen year old girls getting abducted from playgrounds, raped, and forced to get abortions before being returned to the scene of the crime, their parents apparently none the wiser.
Huh?
First of all, this pretty much makes Congressman King not only despicable, but a liar.
Secondly, this pretty much makes Congressman King not only despicable, but a liar.
Here’s the video and an excerpt of our report from yesterday:
Noting that King “might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion” that women can stop themselves from becoming pregnant in cases of “legitimate” rape (or, now, as Akin has “updated” his comments, “forcible” rape,) Talking Points Memo reports:
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
And here’s the video and transcript excerpt of King defending himself from a Think Progress report, just three weeks ago:
“For example, if there’s a sexual predator out there who has impregnated a young girl, say a 13-year-old girl — and it happens in America more times than you and I like to think — that sexual predator can pick that girl up off the playground at the middle school and haul across the state line and force her to get an abortion to eradicate the evidence of his crime and bring her back and drop her off at the swing set and that’s not against the law in the United States of America.”
First of all, so that “I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” was just gobbledegook doublespeak.
Secondly: ”That’s not against the law in the United States of America”?
What planet is Congressman King on?
Let’s see, just off the top of my non-lawyer head:
- Rape
- Transporting a minor across state lines
- Abduction
- Endangering a minor
I don’t know, I’m sure I missed a lot.
Steve King is a Todd Akin apologist.
Steve King is so ignorant of the laws in America, and so ignorant of what America is all about — he has no business being a U.S. Congressman.
UPDATE:
Via a reader:
@davidbadash Still hoping you will note King’s opponent in his race Christie@vilsack4iowa in your coverage of King.vilsackforiowa.com
— CLP (@cooper888) August 22, 2012
Hat tip: Jesse Taylor at Wonkette
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Hang on a second. Supposing that he was correct, that it wasn't against the law. Gee, someone might want to introduce legislation to make it against the law, promote it, push it, get it made into law. Someone like… a Congressman. So given that he has the power to propose such a law, promote such a law, and push it into getting enacted, and he hasn't, there's only a few possible conclusions: 1) Steve King is a lazy Congressman, 2) Steve King is an incompetent Congressman, or 3) Steve King actually thinks that it shouldn't be illegal for a predator to abduct children and transport them across state lines.
4) All of the above?
Oh my motherfucking god WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS WORKING FOR THIS COUNTRY?!
I am literally trying to prevent myself from gagging at the disgusting shit these people are spewing from their ass mouths. Rape, unfortunately, occurs all the time. As to what Tilghman Lesher said-
"Steve King is a lazy Congressman, 2) Steve King is an incompetent Congressman, or 3) Steve King actually thinks that it shouldn't be illegal for a predator to abduct children and transport them across state lines."
Yes, yes, agreed, my god.
I'm literally like stressing out over how retarded someone can possibly be.
I don't think I've ever been this upset over something someone's said. I know MORE than one person who was raped and all of them are mentally scarred to some extent. This….. this is what humanity has come to? In years from now…. will woman be nailed to the walls because its 'okay' and men are 'better' than woman? Will gays be attacked and killed, simply because they're 'different'? And will rapists begin running around kidnapping children and forcing them to give birth because some guy… some IDIOT, said it should be legal?
Fuck America.
This isn't the land of the free.
It's The land of the sick and the home of the ignorant.
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