{"id":29822,"date":"2012-08-24T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29822"},"modified":"2012-08-24T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:44:03","slug":"conditional-vapors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29822","title":{"rendered":"Conditional Vapors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Todd Akin discovered this past week, rape is no laughing matter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;if you&#8217;re a Republican pol.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Democrats? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/senator-famous-joking-about-rape-campaigns-obama-biden_650609.html\">That&#8217;s another story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But before Franken was a senator he was a writer on the TV show Saturday Night Live. Then, he famously joked about raping CBS reporter Lesley Stahl.<\/p>\n<p>As New York magazine reported in 1995, from a writing session that the reporter sat in on:<\/p>\n<p>Franken: \u201cAnd, \u2018I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley\u2019s passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her.\u2019 Or, \u2018That\u2019s why you never see Lesley until February.\u2019 Or, \u2018When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hah! \u00a0Funny! \u00a0Rape ! Hahahahah!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the national conversation now turning to women&#8217;s issues as a result of the bizarre and offensive comments by Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin over the weekend, it seems a bit odd that Vice President Biden would take the stage with Franken, considering his own lack of sensitivity to the horrors of rape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No it doesn&#8217;t. \u00a0The media only holds sins against PC, intelligence, science, fact, logic and morality against conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Todd Akin discovered this past week, rape is no laughing matter&#8230; &#8230;if you&#8217;re a Republican pol. Now, Democrats? \u00a0That&#8217;s another story. But before Franken was a senator he was a writer on the TV show Saturday Night Live. Then, he famously joked about raping CBS reporter Lesley Stahl. As New York magazine reported in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29828,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29822\/revisions\/29828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}