'I go where the fight is,' Tyler replied, before going on to describe Akin's comment as a misstatement in the grand tradition of politicians like, say, VP Joe Biden, and chastising both Akin's fellow Republicans and the media for presenting a 'gross distortion' of what Akin had meant to say.
Harris-Perry rejected the idea that Akin's statement had been a mere 'slip,' pointing out that ' even if we leave aside his talk of a 'legitimate' category of rape ' Akin had been clear when explaining how he believes women's bodies function when faced with conception after a rape. The host then offered a clip of Rep. Joe Walsh saying that there is no need to provide exceptions to abortion based on risks to the mother's life or health, because modern medical technology does away with such risks. If she were working within the Obama campaign, Harris-Perry said, she'd be making sure to try and tie 'down ticket' comments about rape, abortion, and women's health to Romney in the minds of voters.
Panelist Melanie Roussell of the DNC then did just that, pointing out that Romney running mate Paul Ryan co-sponsored legislation with Akin that would seek to redefine rape. NYU's Cristina Beltran went on to re-introduce rhetoric regarding a Republican 'war on women' and Romney's 'binders full of women.'
Tyler brought the conversation back to Akin and his rival, Claire McCaskill, by characterizing her position on abortion as 'radical,' saying that she 'would like to have abortion up to the senior year of high school,' later saying that, no, she revised this to merely be up to the ninth month of pregnancy.
Watch, via MSNBC:
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Work for the highest bider.
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No wonder he joined on!
'Abortion up until the final year of high school'.
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All the women in the room should have jumped him and given him a beat-down for that one. What a complete scumpig arsehole.
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You can tell that the Left is in trouble when the best they can muster is potshots in a meaningless race in Missouri. They did the same thing in 2010 with their witchcraft in Delaware fixation. When forced to choose between substantive advocacy in the big race for President, or smug gotcha in an irrelevant contest, they will always opt for gotcha. And will lose the big race for that very reason.
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The control of the Senate rests on a handful of races, one of which is Missouri, where Republicans has expected to rest control of it before Todd Akin came along.
So, far from being 'meaningless', Akin's gift will haunt Republicans for years to come, as did selecting Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, and Ken Buck.
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Rick Tyler used to be the spokesperson for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. He'll go wherever there's a paycheck.
Interesting and revealing tweet from him this morning that he can't get booked on Fox News because Akin is such a pariah for Republicans but MSNBC welcomes him with open arms.
http://www.mediaite.com/tag/rick-tyler/
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Yes MSNBC want's you to recognize the nature of venomous snakes so that you can avoid them
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