(For a refresher, head over to my post on Colorado State Senator Dave Schultheis from a few weeks ago. This is something of a delayed part two of that post.)

Okay, are you up to speed? Sen. Schultheis wants babies to be born with AIDS so that their mothers will feel bad about being whores, which they obviously are since they have HIV.

Since word of the senator’s comments spread, an email he sent to a blogger has surfaced. In the email the senator tries to shift blame for his statement that he hopes babies get AIDS so their whore mothers feel bad. It wasn’t his fault, you see. It was the reporter!

I had always considered Lynn Bartels as one of the best journalists the Rocky [Mountain News] had. As such she should have had the good sense to question me on my hurried comments to make sure she had a clear understanding. She failed to do that, and as a result has sullied my long-standing reputation as a strong pro-life advocate and caused many good citizens to doubt my views.

The left-wing blogs are in a heated frenzy, deliberately using my comments to spread the thought that I want children to get AIDS. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. NOTHING!

Except it isn’t a journalist’s job to edit a senator’s statements, and what Sen. Schultheis said was:

What I’m hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that.

Keep in mind that this was the clarification of his stupid and offensive statement on the senate floor that babies should be punished for their mothers’ presumed sin. This is what he said when she went to him to make sure she understood him right.

But it doesn’t stop there! Sen. Schultheis did a radio interview on the same day he spoke on the senate floor and talked to the mean reporter who reported what he said. And since it’s not 1952 (much to Sen. Schultheis’ dismay), we have a readily available recording of that interview from KHOW’s Caplis & Silverman Show.

Craig Silverman: …there are things that can be done to prevent the baby that she’s going to have from getting the HIV from the mother; there are medical steps that can be taken. So I can understand you trying to deter bad behavior, but what did the little baby that’s going to be born do to deserve you condemning them to get HIV?

Sen. Schultheis: First of all, it’s a very small percentage as you know, and let me… if you’ll give me a few minutes here let me try to explain a little bit on where I’m going on this, because we… The only reason this has gotten to be a big issue is because of the gay issue and the hom…and the HIV and that’s the only reason this thing’s floated to the top.

But let me just say, for my children for example, when they were small and they started to run out into the street, I spanked the heck out of them because I did not want that behavior to end up in an accident and for them to be killed. And the reason is because I’ve seen, and we’ve heard stories over and over of people where their children have run after balls and what have you and been killed, because of that kind of behavior. So parents take decisive action as a result of having seen the consequences of that kind of behavior. And so they teach their children, then, don’t run out in the street and so forth. [...]

Silverman: Just to use your metaphor–it’s interesting to hear you say you spanked the hell out of your children when they were going to run in the street, but it would be comparable to you going in the house and getting a child who didn’t run in the street, throwing them under the car, and saying, “You see what happens?!?” Don’t you follow that that’s the better metaphor for what you’re doing? You’re punishing the baby.

Schultheis: [chuckles] You know, you’re making it sound like you’re punishing every baby, but that’s not the case.

Isn’t he a lovely person?

Just in case people weren’t sure how he felt, Sen. Schultheis posted an entry to his blog in which he tries to re-re-re-explain what he meant. He goes into some detail about his concern for the government’s proper role, and how the test is invasive to privacy. What’s odd, though, is that Sen. Schultheis’ comments about how babies being born with AIDS would be an awesome punishment for slutty moms is nowhere to be found.

I assume that’s what he’s talking about when he mentions “additional remarks taken out of context”, but we know from his own words completely in context that Dave Schultheis really, really, really likes the idea of babies being born with AIDS so their mothers feel bad about being slutty sluts who slut. Because all women who have HIV/AIDS, in case you’d missed the news, are whores of one sort or another. Because Dave Schultheis, the senator for northern Colorado Springs, the Air Force Academy, parts of the Black Forest, and the town of Monument, is a horrible human being.

Side note: Remember in the last post where I got excited about Sen. Schultheis being on Twitter?

It turns out that he doesn’t let just anybody get updates from him. Here’s what I found when I went to his page today.

Don't punish me, Dave! I don't want the AIDS!