See Politico's Dave Cantanese work himself into a knot defending Todd Akin

[Ruby the Liberal]

[Spazito]

1. Wow, the gymnastics this guy is performing are...

Olympic quality. Bizarre comments, truly bizarre.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. He said women secrete a sperm killing substance if its legitimate rape you dimwit!

Spin until you vomit for all I care, his words still stand as insane RW rhetoric against rape victims.

[Dawson Leery]

3. He too is defending rapists.

[DCKit]

4. "We all know what he was trying to say." Yeah, exactly what he said.

Nobody's accusing him of being too stupid to speak Amur'kan, just of being far right-wing batshit insane. As far as anyone knows, his English language skills are just fine. It's his thinking process that's thoroughly corrupted by a combination of fundamentalist, woman hating propaganda and white male privilege.

But go ahead, if you must, Teapublicans. Keep this alive right up until election day. Prove your point!

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Dumbass is trying to walk it back now.

“Did not intend to take a side. Lesson learned.”

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/185641/politicos-catanese-says-it-was-a-bad-idea-to-defend-akins-legitimate-rape-comment/

Sorry, Dave. You own this. Putz.

[Lucy Goosey]

8. Oh, wow.

"Did not intend to take a side" is a fresh steaming pile of bullshit.

This is an issue where it is appropriate to take a side, and he took the wrong one. This is not an issue on which anyone should even be proud of not taking a side - there is a correct side! And you missed it, Dave! Jackass.

[Spazito]

9. Translation...

Nobody is buying my bullshit excuses and are pointing out my bias. Oops.

[Lucy Goosey]

6. We all know what he was trying to say?

Women are usually asking for it, and if they get pregnant that's the proof, is about what he was trying to say, am I right?

[seabeyond]

7. strong push from men that over half rapes reported are false claim. this is one of the

efforts being promoted. be aware. men are getting braver putting this out to us.

[joeybee12]

10. I see smoke coming out of his tiny teabagging mind!

KNR

[abolugi]

11. Politico fired Joe Williams

for saying Romney prefers the company of white people( a TRUE statement) and yet this guy is still working??

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. It hasn't been 24 hours - yet.

There is still hope if they have any aspirations of keeping a neutral/journalism front up (for those not paying attention over the years).

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. Politico pulled Catanese

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/david-catanese-todd-akin_n_1813728.html?1345501266

John Harris, editor-in-chief of Politico, said in a staff memo on Monday that Catanese "crossed a line a reporter shouldn't cross on Twitter when he seemed to weigh in on the merits of Todd Akin's comments -- especially in a way many people, including many POLITICO colleagues, understandably found offensive."

"Dave's tweets on Akin created a distraction to his own work, and to the newsroom as a whole," Harris continued. "They also made himself part of the story, requiring us for now to remove him from Akin coverage."

On Monday morning, Catanese returned to Twitter and address the controversy he sparked while commenting on Akin's controversy. "Bad idea trying to have nuanced conversation on highly charged issue on here," Catanese wrote. "Did not intend to take a side. Lesson learned."

But for Politico's editors, that mea culpa apparently wasn't enough to keep him on the Missouri Senate race beat, an area of the political world Catanese knows well. Before joining Politico, Catanese worked at a Springfield, Missouri television station and ran the influential state political blog, The KY3 Political Notebook.