Based on that quote, Akin did NOT refer to his opponent as "unladylike". Do you not understand the proper use of quotation marks? He said she was "more ladylike" in the 2006 debates and that she was "aggressive" in the debate with him, but NEVER (according to the full quote) did he call her "unladylike", which didn't stop you from putting quotes around the word and claiming that he said it. Very poor journalism.

Hay Maggie,let me guess who you are trying to help win.

>>>Akin told the paper. “She had a confidence and was much more ladylike (in 2006), but in the debate on Friday she came out swinging, and I think that’s because she feels threatened."<<<

"ladylike" ??? Really???

The 1950s called and wants their Republican congressional candidate back.

This morning, the Akin campaign released the following endorsement from singer, actor and writer Pat Boone: "I'm strongly supportive of Todd Akin for US Senator from Missouri. My ancestor Daniel Boone would be, too—he and Rebecca had 10 kids, definitely pro-life. Todd's opponent is resolutely of the "pro abortion" camp which championed, just last year, the "termination" of over 600,000 baby girls. Todd Akin will represent the true values of Missouri families."

How are you going to retract your grossly misleading headline in which you appear to directly quote the candidate? Your paper makes it seem he said something which is VERY different from he actually said. I'd like a response and a copy of the corrected article -- which I hope is just as prominent a headline as this misquote.

Instead of focusing on words, let's focus on deeds. FreedomWorks ranks Todd Akin's VOTING record at a 90%. Claire McCaskill's VOTING record at a 21%. Claire McCaskill has voted WITH President Obama and the liberal/progressive Democrats - 98% of the time. Let's stop being distracted by words and misleading headlines and let us start looking at voting records. In the final analysis, that is what counts.

Unless, of course, this is the American Idol version of politics.

This is a DESPERATE attempt of the liberal media to paint a candidate incorrectly by putting words in their mouth which they did not say, or construing what they did say as something else entirely. Printing a "misquote" by anyone should be grounds for an apology to say the least.

We've posted an editor's note in an attempt to clear up any confusion regarding the coverage of the comment in question. Thanks for sharing your views.

You are all acting very aggressively. Do you feel threatened? You need to be more ladylike.

$16,000,000,000,000.00+ AND NO BUDGET FROM THE SENATE IN OVER 1,200 DAYS! Bye Claire.

Poor Todd, if he can't handle Claire being aggressive in a debate, how's he going to handle being in the Senate? In the House...how many bills did Akin pass? Seems he spent most of his time trying to get a bill passed to shove up every woman's uterus. He doesn't believe in any sort of abortion even in cases of rape or incest, then Mr. Akin shouldn't have one. But he's not going to tell my family what we should and should not do at horrible times in our lives. This guy doesn't represent Missouri values, he represents a sliver of Missouri values. They want him, join his church but I want someone who is looking out for other things, not creepily focused on his moral beliefs as if they should be mine. I don't like his.

Another "word" bites the dust.
Be ridiculed for calling a "woman" a "lady".
No sir "woman" are not "swingers".

How many of you know that President Obama called our Navy men--
"CORPSE-MAN" (Pronounced Dead body "Corpse")

The President also said That he has indeed "visited all 57 states"

Is Lady-like more offensive than what our President uttered?

Calling a woman a LadyLike is now Verboten.

A "picayune" media with an agenda, I say.
Let's defeat "Senator McCaskill" , whatever (Whoever) she is.
She does not care about Missouri. She does not value the meaning of "marriage".
She has only a National Party agenda. She did not fight to keep "GOD" in the peoples Platform.
McCaskill will be a crucial vote for "Taxpayer supported Abortions" "Preference treatment to only Woman in America"
Any Catholic Man/Woman who would choose McCaskill over any contender is a "Hypocrite" to their Religion. Shocking to hear any Catholic woman condemn a man that tries to keep this country a "christian" oriented place to live.
Those same woman need to look at just what McCaskill stands for.
She stands for everything Good Christians would consider detrimental to "FAMILIES" as we once knew them.
She stands for acquiescence to low "morals" within our young kids in school.
She stands for free-sex with a only pill solutions & no responsibilty.
Catholics---This is not the Senator that should represent Missouri.
The media is suppressing reality. Don't fall for their agenda.

You know what seals the deal for me? The fact that McCaskill still supported Obamacare AFTER Proposition C, the Healthcare Freedom Act, passed with over 70% of the vote. Regardless of whether or not you support Obamacare, do you support a Senator, someone who is supposed to represent OUR view, disregarding such a strong message from the voters? I certainly don't.

Todd Akin was not my first choice in the primary, but I respect the fact that he stood against his party on some high-profile votes, including TARP, No Child Left Behind (what a mess!), and Medicare Part D. He doesn't simply "tow the party line" and I appreciate that!

Not too long ago, at one of her townhall meetings, McCaskill was foolish enough to say, "What? Don't you trust me???" to which the crowd gave a resounding "NO!!!!" After the way she has voted (98% party line if I'm not mistaken), I totally agree with that crowd.

For the record, I'm a huge tomboy and the term "ladylike" is not the least bit offensive to me. What a way to grasp at straws. My goodness.

Ben Bernanke has issued QE3 to eternity and beyond, thus devaluing the dollar. Rep. Akin has voted to audit the Federal Reserve. He was a co-sponsor of Ron Paul's Federal Reserve Bill. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.459:

Rep. Akin opposes Obamacare. 71% of Missouri voters opposed Obamacare.

Sen. McCaskill voted yes on the behemoth of a Farm Bill which contained massive food stamp expenditures - "Food stamps – formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – account for $768 billion of the bill’s ten-year total, or 79 percent of the Senate bill’s total funding. “In total, CBO estimates that enacting the [SNAP] provisions…would cost $768.2 billion,” The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a June estimate of the bill."
Frankly, I wish Sen. McCaskill would miss more votes.

Akin is pure GOP fruitcakery, taken to its nth degree. Good that he's still in the race. Women should remember every deranged thing he says, note how little he appears to like or respect women, and vote accordingly.

I listened to his interview on 97.1 with Dana Loesch. There was no gaffe. What he said about McCaskill 100% Spot on. Typical rhetoric from the Left. Throw anything and everything at your opponent and hope it sticks. McCaskill will lose in landslide for her awful voting record. McCaskill and Obama are on the path for complete destruction of our get country. I can not wait until NOV to rid our country and our state from this democratic cancer.

"What he said about McCaskill 100% Spot on"

Absolutely. She wasn't ladylike at all. Imagine such behavior in a debate. Ridiculous.

Akin's legislative record and ability to name post offices is beyond reproach.

Student Loans are cancer:
“America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.” — candidate forum in Columbia, Mo., in response to a question about student loan program, April 2012.

Liberalism is a hatred of God:
“I think NBC has a long record of being very liberal and at the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.” — on Family Research Council President Tony Perkins’ radio show, June 2012

Medical emergency? Sell your car:
“I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.” — at a primary debate, in response to a moderator’s question about what an uninsured 28-year-old who gets cancer should do, January 2012

FDR destroyed the economy:
“We have this category of stuff we call stimulus; 1.2 trillion dollars. We take money that we don’t have and spend it all over the place as though that is going to somehow help the economy. It just does not work. It just does not work are also the words of Henry Morgenthau in 1937 when FDR tried the same thing and destroyed the economy.”

There are many more examples of Akin's intellect out there. The man is an embarrassment.

There is little truth in journalism today