MORE people need to be ranting about this, and not just Colbert and Stewart. More people need to be condemning the people who say such stupid things.
Colbert has really turned it into a crusade. Last night he had Mitch Daniels on, and asked him about Mourdock’s comments. When Daniels sidestepped the question by talking about how it’s a difficult issue, and there are numerous viewpoints, and it wasn’t going to be resolved in this election, Colbert responded that abortion is a difficult issue, but there’s pretty much only one side when it comes to rape. I don’t think Daniels had an answer to that.
I think it’s clear that Colbert is truly angry about the rape comments.
From here:
“A Pennsylvania bill that would have limited welfare benefits for low-income mothers—unless they could prove their newborns were a result of rape—has been withdrawn by the lawmakers who introduced it after a wave of criticism following its announcement.”
So they’re backing off on it, but it certainly was a stupid idea.
boggle
How are you supposed to prove…
:eek:
:mad:
I hereby solemnly swear that on the night of January 11, 2120, I forcibly raped (blank). The fact that I am vicious enough to do it and stupid enough to admit it should be enough to prove that I am unfit genetic material for a prospective citizen.
Signed
(Rapist name here)
Is there any chance Texas doesn’t have something to hide?
Hid the Alamo once, then forgot where. Hence the phrase.
The seeming obsession with rape makes me think of this. (Audio is probably NSFW.)
Charming.
This could be the break the O’Donnell campaign has been waiting for!
If there’s one thing you shouldn’t try to get past the Left, it’s a bad Photoshop.
“Romneney”. It’s his very own gotchaya.
Wow, that is SO bad! 
That’s definitely a 'shop. I can tell from the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time.
Hur hur, good one 
I’m wondering if Texas wants to avoid something like this (from “How to Rig an Election” in the latest Harper’s):
Such embarrassing outcomes never happen if you just don’t let professionals observe the election in the first place. Brilliant!
Well, now, are we really surprised that people who voted for Bush wouldn’t admit it?
That’s definitely NOT photoshopped. They’ve used the Panorama function built into the camera where you take one photo, manually pan and take another one, repeating as needed. The camera then automatically merges them to make one wide photo. It’s not very sophisticated and those types of cloning artifacts are common.
Someone approved that photo for use after just glancing at it and didn’t notice.
If something could be either insidious or incompetent, it’s usually the latter.
I have no idea what specific panorama app they might have used, so I can’t say this with absolute certainty, but…
I’ve used several panorama apps with my phone, and absolutely none of them have ever given me a result like that.
Oh, come on. That’s not true.
It can be both!
The phone apps are better than the ones built into cameras since they have so much more processing power available. It can still go wrong if you don’t align the edges properly and it tries to merge the photos in the wrong place, you get those duplicated sections fading into each other.
The most convincing evidence is that it is too awful to be done manually.