Another Day, Another Awful Rape Quote from a Congressman

We were getting a little tired of reading about the many ways in which Mitt Romney screwed up his response to the tragic attack on the US embassy in Libya when we noticed yet another case of a prominent politician making the very worst of an already terrible situation by uttering an unnecessary and ignorant statement about rape.

Quick summary: After the release of an inflammatory anti-Islam video in Libya, the US embassy tried to put a damper on local outrage by issuing a statement disapproving of the film’s obvious attempts to rile anger by insulting what happens to be one of the world’s largest–and touchiest–religions.

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