GOP Sen Kyl: Embassy Statement Condemning Anti-Islam Movie Like Telling Rape Victim She Asked For It

[Tx4obama]

GOP Sen. Kyl: Embassy Statement Condemning Anti-Islam Movie Like Telling Rape Victim She ‘Asked For It’

Republican Senator Jon Kyl told reporters Wednesday afternoon that the Tuesday evening U.S. Embassy statement condemning anti-Muslim movie Innocence of Muslims, reportedly issued before the attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four American citizens including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, was similar to a judge blaming a raped woman for her rape.

Roll Call reporter Meredith Shiner caught the remarks and transcribed them as follows:

“It’s like the judge telling the woman who got raped, ‘You asked for it because of the way you dressed.’ OK? That’s the same thing. ‘Well America, you should be the ones to apologize, you should have known this would happen, you should have done — what I don’t know — but it’s your fault that it happened.’ You know, for a member of our State Department to put out a statement like that, it had to be cleared by somebody. They don’t just do that in the spur of the moment.”

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p.s. Kyl is retiring and NOT running for re-election this year.
But we should do all that we can to help the Democratic senatorial candidate get elected!

2012 Arizona U.S. Senate candidates:
Richard Carmona (D)
Jeff Flake (R)
Ian Gilyeat (I)

[MichiganVote]

1. Torn between a "huh??" or an "Oh,uh huh, right" moment.

[MissMarple]

2. Kool Klassy Kyl

There you go again!

[Frustratedlady]

3. Is sex all they think of? He had to push the envelope on this one.

I'm glad he will soon be gone.

[seabeyond]

4. and tomorrow he will talk about "legitimate" rape and "slut-shame" fluke. nt

[Firebrand Gary]

5. Congressman Flake has the same voting record as Ryan. The ongoing war on women continues!

and it appears with this comment out of Kyl, that Arizona is a leader in the pack!

[Blue Meany]

6. False Analogy Alert.

This statement doesn't say anything to or about the victims of the violence, which, in fact had not yet occurred. It was directed at those who were understandably upset about a deliberate insult to their religion and was aimed at preventing violence. And it certainly did not imply that the victims were "asking for it." It didn't even say that the film-makers were asking for it.

Nice try, but this doesn't fly.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. And beside that...

Republicans ALWAYS blame rape victims for whatever happened to them.

It's like Kyl said, "Obame, you son-of-a-bitch, who do you think you are? A Republican?"

[SoapBox]

7. All the Repukes and Baggers can think of is...

Lady parts and anything to do with them

and

Nazi Germany.

[TroyD]

8. Good thing Sen. Kyl is retiring in a few months

Is this how he wants to be remembered?