Richard Mourdock - an Indiana Republican who lost to Joe Donnelly in his Senate bid last month - has recently sent the following fundraising e-mail via his finance director, Ashlee Walls:
"After a bitter, hard-fought campaign, many Republicans all over the country were forced to accept defeat rather than celebrate victory. In our case, we found our campaign caught in the liberal media crosshairs. Never has Indiana seen a more obvious example of media bias by reporters more interested in defeating conservatives than reporting the news..."
In the e-mail, Walls also added, "We fought back and invested heavily in a last-minute push to combat the slew of false accusations Democrats and the liberal media churned up to distract voters."
Right... What were these false accusations? During a debate, when asked about a woman being impregnated through rape, Mourdock responded with the following words:
"I struggled with it myself a long time but I came to realize that life is a gift from God, that I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen."
No, nothing could go wrong with that statement... When a man running for Senate includes the words "rape" and "something that God intended to happen" within the same sentence, good luck trying to either effectively run away from that comment or spin it in his favor. Only Mr. Mourdock knows his true intent with the statement, but how it came across to many people nationwide, including Indiana voters, was that pregnancies via rape are things that God intended to happen.
Mr. Mourdock can blame the media all he wants. Most media outlets don't care about which candidate they're going to potentially hurt with a story. They care about the ratings they'll earn from that story. When Mr. Mourdock uttered those ridiculously stupid words in a debate, like a dog's ears perk when it hears the word "treat," so too did the national media's ears (and perhaps other parts of their bodies). Mourdock can go on living in denial about his Senate loss being the fault of the "liberal media," but the "liberal media" aren't the ones who uttered the words, "I struggled with it myself a long time but I came to realize that life is a gift from God, that I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen." Sorry buddy, but that was your own doing right there.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/272179-mourdock-email-blames-liberal-media-for-his-senate-loss
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/263727-mourdock-says-pregnancy-from-rape-can-be-something-god-intended-to-happen
"After a bitter, hard-fought campaign, many Republicans all over the country were forced to accept defeat rather than celebrate victory. In our case, we found our campaign caught in the liberal media crosshairs. Never has Indiana seen a more obvious example of media bias by reporters more interested in defeating conservatives than reporting the news..."
In the e-mail, Walls also added, "We fought back and invested heavily in a last-minute push to combat the slew of false accusations Democrats and the liberal media churned up to distract voters."
Right... What were these false accusations? During a debate, when asked about a woman being impregnated through rape, Mourdock responded with the following words:
"I struggled with it myself a long time but I came to realize that life is a gift from God, that I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen."
No, nothing could go wrong with that statement... When a man running for Senate includes the words "rape" and "something that God intended to happen" within the same sentence, good luck trying to either effectively run away from that comment or spin it in his favor. Only Mr. Mourdock knows his true intent with the statement, but how it came across to many people nationwide, including Indiana voters, was that pregnancies via rape are things that God intended to happen.
Mr. Mourdock can blame the media all he wants. Most media outlets don't care about which candidate they're going to potentially hurt with a story. They care about the ratings they'll earn from that story. When Mr. Mourdock uttered those ridiculously stupid words in a debate, like a dog's ears perk when it hears the word "treat," so too did the national media's ears (and perhaps other parts of their bodies). Mourdock can go on living in denial about his Senate loss being the fault of the "liberal media," but the "liberal media" aren't the ones who uttered the words, "I struggled with it myself a long time but I came to realize that life is a gift from God, that I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen." Sorry buddy, but that was your own doing right there.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/272179-mourdock-email-blames-liberal-media-for-his-senate-loss
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/263727-mourdock-says-pregnancy-from-rape-can-be-something-god-intended-to-happen
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