Politico reporter David Catanese apologized to colleagues Tuesday night for posting several controversial tweets in the hours after Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin said victims of “legitimate rape” have biological defenses to prevent pregnancy.“My only aim was to evoke a discussion — from the neutral vantage point of a reporter — about whether there were different ways of interpreting what Akin meant with his words,” Catanese wrote, according to a memo obtained by HuffPost’s Michael Calderone. “The effort failed badly, because of my own imprecise wording.”
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