Either reporters are pushing an agenda supportive of abortion rights or they’re idiots.

But why rule out the possibility that they are both?

Mollie Hemingway nails the thing that bothered me the most when, within 24 hours of the Akin kerfuffle, it seemed that the words "forcible rape" had become entirely incomprehinsible to the media and leftists, notwithstanding the fact that the term "forcible rape" is used by the FBI in compiling crime statistics.

By Wednesday night, one reporter found that there were already 337 stories about this pro-choice talking point that requires reporters to pretend that they don’t actually understand the difference between statutory and forced rape. As I finish writing this, we see that the New York Times is now also pretending not to understand rape — as this comprehensive take-down of that story’s inaccurate and misleading reporting makes clear.

Either reporters are pushing an agenda supportive of abortion rights or they’re idiots. It’s one thing for pro-choice activists or the Democratic Party to advocate in support of those goals. But reporters playing games in service to that agenda is ridiculous. We’re all better than that, no matter what side of the issue we’re personally on.

Apparently, the New York Times spread the the false meme that Ryan was redefining rape when, in fact, he was using the FBI definition.

I'm not a journalist, but I managed to locate the FBI definition with a simple web search inside of five minutes.

Who "fact checks" the "fact checkers"?