Colorado Pol Makes Odd Rape Remark | Drudge Retort

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Colorado Pol Makes Odd Rape Remark

A Colorado state representative is being widely ridiculed for a remark he made during debate Friday over a bill on whether to allow guns on college campuses. State Rep. Joe Salazar (D-Thornton) said, "It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have the whistles. Because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at. And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop a round at somebody." State Rep. Lori Saine (R-Dacono) responded, "I guess, Rep. Salazar, if a woman doesn't know she's being raped, she doesn't fear it."

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Salazar, serving his first term, apologized Monday and said, "We were having a public policy debate on whether or not guns makes people safer on campus. I don't believe they do. That was the point I was trying to make. If anyone thinks I'm not sensitive to the dangers women face, they're wrong. I am a husband and father of two beautiful girls, and I've spent the last decade defending women's rights as a civil rights attorney."

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Oh My (clutch pearls)!

is this going to be his Waterlooooo-lu-lu-lu-lu?

#1 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2013-02-20 12:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Reading Drudge Retort is like reading a three-day-old newspaper that somebody left in the [...] at work. Why does it take news so long to reach this site?

#2 | Posted by Starquest at 2013-02-20 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Why does it take news so long to reach this site?

#13 | Posted by Starquest at 2013-02-20 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag

Because the current elders here can't manage to fix anything, they are just happy they have a representative in office, nothing more is required so fluff and puff is it.

#3 | Posted by moneywar at 2013-02-20 03:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

Nevermind, I think I answered my own question. It just takes a really really long time for each article to appear in my RSS feed.

#4 | Posted by Starquest at 2013-02-20 03:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

How nice of this fool to give his approval (see #2) for the potential victim to scream if she wants to.

#3 | Posted by CalifChris

Yet............... single women, by a large margin. support the people that come up with that stupid stuff. Please explain that to me.

#5 | Posted by Sniper at 2013-02-20 03:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

DEY RAPIN ERR BODAY OUT HERR

www.youtube.com

#6 | Posted by AuntieSocial at 2013-02-20 03:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Democrat war on women continues. You can have a morning after pill but you can have any bullets.

#1 | POSTED BY PANEOCON

I want to put this on a poster as one of the dumbest things ever said.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2013-02-20 06:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

I know of college girls who've misread a situation and maced guys they thought were going to rape them.

At least once it turned out that he was gay.

#8 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-20 06:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

Typical Perhaps Joe should tell the rape victims that some rapist will get really turned on if they wet themselves. So I guess Joe is pro rape and has lots of rapist friends.

Once again democrats want people disarmed now they have a war on women to disarm them so democrat voters can rape them more easily.

Why do people vote democrat??????????????????

#9 | Posted by tmaster at 2013-02-20 07:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

I know of college girls who've misread a situation and maced guys they thought were going to rape them.

At least once it turned out that he was gay.

#19 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-20 06:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

I took this to be the speaker's (woefully mis-articulated) point: there are better ways to deal with the issue of rape than arming everyone and accepting the consequences of doing so (accidental shootings, gun thefts, gun use under the influence, gun use by people suffering from mental illness, etc.).

#10 | Posted by DirkStruan at 2013-02-20 08:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

@ DIRKSTRUAN

Fair enough description of what Joe said.

IMHO Joe's remark is nothing compared to what was said in Missouri during the 2012 senate race.

#11 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-20 10:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Did I read this right? Salazar said that guns aren't necessarily a good thing on campus because, for instance, a woman who felt like she might be in danger of being raped might shoot someone even though she might have been mistaken and wasn't in danger.

Right so far?

Then Saine says, "if a woman doesn't know she's being raped, she doesn't fear it."

Huh? Wtf?

#12 | Posted by mOntecOre at 2013-02-20 10:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

What would Ted Kennedy say?

#13 | Posted by Federalist at 2013-02-20 10:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Then Saine says, "if a woman doesn't know she's being raped, she doesn't fear it."

Huh? Wtf?

#23 | Posted by mOntecOre at 2013-02-20 10:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

Saine was being sarcastic in response to Salazar's comment. Pay attention.
Try reading the whole comment instead of cherry picking.

State Rep. Lori Saine (R-Dacono) responded, "I guess, Rep. Salazar, if a woman doesn't know she's being raped, she doesn't fear it."

rwd

#14 | Posted by rightwingdon at 2013-02-20 10:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Reading Drudge Retort is like reading a three-day-old newspaper that somebody left in the [...] at work"

Similar background color when you think of it.

#15 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-02-20 11:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

"What would Ted Kennedy say?"

Holy crap even after I've been dead for years some people still pretend like I'm alive?

#16 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-20 11:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

Re: #19 TOR, #21 DIRKSTUAN, #23 MONTECORE

This is exactly what Salazar was getting at. I had to go back and read again for the controversial comment. Didn't find it. All I see is that he somewhat poorly articulated his argument (better spelled out by DIRKSTUAN in post #21).

Saine went for a "gotcha" moment with a controversial mis-paraphrase to score political points.
Ideologues waiting to be outraged toward anything said by their identified opponents are eating it up.

Re: #22 TOR

This doesn't even come close to paralleling what's been said by more prominent members of the GOP concerning the issue of rape.

#17 | Posted by hamburglar at 2013-02-21 07:18 AM | Reply | Flag:

IMHO Joe's remark is nothing compared to what was said in Missouri during the 2012 senate race.

Which is precisely why the right is jumping on it.

They're desperate for any sort of counterbalance to the absolutely horrid rape comments multiple GOP politicians are on the record for saying.

Even if they have to misinterpret or spin it to do so.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2013-02-21 01:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

They're desperate for any sort of counterbalance to the absolutely horrid rape comments multiple GOP politicians are on the record for saying.

Even if they have to misinterpret or spin it to do so.

#29 | Posted by jpw

Doctors have determined this is due to PTED.

Post Traumatic Election Disorder.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013-02-21 01:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

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