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@fetboy
You, and Ms. Price, and Mr. Olbermann are all just assuming it was a rape joke or threat, when the simpler and more likely explanation was what I offered--he was responding to the charge that he and his staff had no balls by saying, "Yeah, we still have our balls, do you want us to drop trou and show you?"
Was it a lame joke? Yes. Was it maladroit and poorly expressed and vague enough to allow for misinterpretation? Clearly. But that doesn't mean that it was a veiled rape threat.
This is a perfect case of people seeing what they want to see, and automatically assuming the worst in others.