Earlier today, when I clicked on the Charles Krauthammer link atop Jennifer Rubin’s Washington Post blog, instead of getting that sage conservative pundit’s original insight into the events of the day, I got Dana Milbank’s stale repetition of conventional wisdom. (Maybe the Post editors set it up that way because otherwise no conservatives would read Milbank.)
Contending that when “Todd Akin sneezes, Paul Ryan catches a cold“, Milbank offers
The Republicans’ soon-to-be nominee for vice president is supposed to be delivering a message about jobs and the economy, but he’s finding he cannot escape his longtime House colleague, now a national pariah for his exotic views on rape.
Well, perhaps for Beltway denizens like yourself, Dana — and for Democratic partisans, but most Americans will evaluate Mr. Ryan not by words he has deemed “outrageous”, but by the way he carries himself next week at the Republican convention and in the coming months on the campaign trail.
The only reason anyone is connecting Ryan to Akin is because left-leaning pundits and Democratic partisans are dwelling on the issue. I mean, come on, Dana, who’s asking these questions? Who’s making this a story?
It ain’t undecided voters in Ohio, Florida and Virginia; it’s self-satisfied pundits in Washington, D.C.
Oh, and by the notion, about the notion circulating among such pundits about Ryan trying to “restrict the definition of rape,” well, that’s based on false New York Times report. The Times reporters failed “to to provide very basic context about the bill Ryan cosponsored”:
Writing that Ryan cosponsored a bill that “aimed to restrict the definition of rape” leaves readers with the impression that Ryan cosponsored a bill primarily aimed at changing the definition of rape. Did the bill try to reduce the punishment for rapists? Did it exclude “date-rape” from the definition of rape? The Times leaves readers wondering.
In fact, the bill had nothing to do with altering the criminal code. It dealt only with the issue of prohibiting the use of federal tax dollars to pay for abortions. From 1981 to 1993, the Hyde amendment only allowed federal funding of abortions for Medicaid recipients when the mother’s life was endangered.
Read the whole thing.
Yeah, well, Dana Milbank doesn’t really care about rape, or abortion, or honesty, or anything except helping The One stay in power.
Ditching fuctards like Akin is one of the reasons we’re better than the Democrats.
Akin believes in rape faeries, he’s out. Bill Clinton committed rape and he’s their keynote speaker… because we’re better than they are.
We ditched Mark Foley for sending creeper txts. The Democrats re-elected boy-rapist Gerry Studds 9 times.
We’re better.
We sent Duke Cunningham to the cold stony. Charlie Rangel remains in power.
We’re better.
Ted Kennedy iced a woman and was re-elected six times.
We’re better than that. Let’s keep it that way.