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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-11 11:23 AM
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Republican Rep: I Didn't Say The Girl Deserved To Be Raped! (Because The New York Times Said It Firs
Rep. Kathleen Passidomo's is the Republican Woman who blamed an 11 year old girl's rape by 18 males as her own fault for dressing like a 21 year old prostitute. Well, she tried to explain her words by saying she was merely discussing the New York Times Article that said it first. Here is a bit of the article.


"Thank you for your concern," Passidomo allegedly wrote, "I was not referring to my own opinion to the cause of the rape, but to the cause implied by a March 8th article of The New York Times." Fair enough, if Passidomo is copping to being an unthinking automaton who regurgitates whatever hare-brained idea the media foist upon her. Except that the Times story in no way suggests that the 11-year-old was raped because of her clothes. Not once. That notion was Passidomo's invention, no matter what she says."

Article link (Broward Palm Beach New Times): http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2011/03/republican_rep_i_didnt_say_the.php
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-11 11:26 AM
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1. She was raped because 18 men decided to act like animals.
Period.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-11 11:28 AM
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2. Ah that famous Republican personal responsibility
Come on, Kathleen. Just own up to what you said. You know what you said, and you know what you meant. And it was repugnant and repulsive practically all decent people. You just didn't know any better when you made your vicious and hateful comments. Admit it, and you'll feel better. The cure for ignorance is education, and I daresay you've just gone through a Ph.D course in applied ignoramus. Say that you know better now, and that you'll try to keep your ignorance to yourself in the future, at least until you've had a chance to think before you open your yapper.

This is why I hate these people. Even when they're completely wrong and caught dead to rights at it, they're still looking to weasel out of what they said or did.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-11 11:30 AM
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3. she read the article
she could have spoken out against it, but didn't.

FAIL, kathleen!
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-11 11:32 AM
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4. In the recent case of a 70 year old woman
who was raped in the same area, does Ms. Passidomo also think Granny was raped because she was "too sexy"?

This woman is a disgrace to her office and her gender.
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