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Republican strategist Brad Blakeman has a Princess-Bride moment regarding the term "statutory rape"

When subject turned to the FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) decision on lowering the age restriction for the morning-after pill from 17 to 15 on Fox News this morning, Republican strategist Brad Blakeman became quite upset. He became so upset that he had a Princess-Bride moment as I like to call them, where he spoke at length about a particular word, but obviously didn't know what the term meant. In the before-mentioned movie, upon hearing the word "inconceivable" time and time again, character Inigo Montoya says, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Brad Blakeman had a similar moment on Fox News this morning when he said the following: "This makes no sense at all. You have to be 18 years old to buy a pack of cigarettes, and the president is also encouraging criminal behavior, because in most jurisdictions in American engaging in sexual intercourse at 14, 15 years old is statutory rape. The president is ...