
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said today that President Obama "favors the black person" by default in an argument.
Media Matters reports that King made the remarks this morning in an appearance on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show, during a discussion of the Obama administration's criticism of the new Arizona anti-illegal immigration law:
King: When you look at this administration, I'm offended by Eric Holder and the President also, their posture. It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race. And I don't know what the basis of that is but I'm not a coward when it comes to that and I'm happy to talk about these things and I think we should. But the President has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race - on the side that favors the black person.
FreeRider
June 14, 2010 4:32 PM
Steve King solidifies his cred as a paranoid racist. Film at 11.
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:32 PM in reply to FreeRider
I hate hate.
I hate racism, I hate intolerance, I hate bigotry - it's the lowest of the low, it motivates a lot of violence in the name of skin color, religion and culture, and it's something the right wing has been trading on for far too log.
King and those like him(the majority of tea partiers) is someone I can proudly say I HATE with a vengeance. He stands for everything America fought in WW2.
The only way King would ever support Obama is if he declared that all people of non-European ancestry are a different species who deserve the status that King and his hate & war-monger flunkies have reserved primarily for Arabs.
I have no doubt that these monsters would love for time to go back to the 1940s, so we can join Hitler against the Soviet Union, as so many of them wanted to do back then, and still pine for such a political movement as the Nazi party.
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Knothead Jake
June 15, 2010 7:18 AM in reply to cinesimon
If only the Uppity President would just embrace the inbred, stupid, racist, backwards, gun toting, science denying, bible thumping, morons like King, things would be so much better.
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mJJ
June 14, 2010 10:21 PM in reply to FreeRider
One wonders where he got that idea. From the local KKK or what? There is no evidence whatsoever to back up that claim. Have a look at his Cabinet. He is from Chicago after all and Chicago Blacks an Whites have a long history of dumping racism for better appreciation of each other. But nice try to stir up some racial garbage, Mr. King. Frankly, YOUR racism is glaring right out of that statemen.
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Donald from Hawaii
June 15, 2010 3:16 AM in reply to FreeRider
Well, think of it this way - if it came down to Steve King or some random black guy on the street, whose word would you trust?
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gparks
June 15, 2010 7:13 AM in reply to Donald from Hawaii
I'd chose the random Black guy on the street!
That guy even looks deranged!
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fortunatolucchesi
June 14, 2010 4:34 PM
It's as if this guy has the word "Idiot" tattooed on his forehead.
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Donald from Hawaii
June 15, 2010 3:17 AM in reply to fortunatolucchesi
I believe the word is "stewped" ...
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ejg3
June 14, 2010 4:36 PM
Stephen King writes fictional horror stories. Congressman Steve King is a real horror story.
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Jaycal
June 14, 2010 4:38 PM
Yea, I'm sick and tired of the president always favoring immigrants... from... Africa... OK, let me think about this some more.
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Metzengerstein
June 14, 2010 4:42 PM
But the President has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race ...
And Steve King just breaks down, period, on the side of the crazy.
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Yash
June 14, 2010 4:43 PM
Steve King has default mechanism that favors the white person
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stefsstuff
June 14, 2010 4:50 PM in reply to Yash
LOL! That was my first thought too. If we have a white President then they too must have a default mechanism that breaks in favor of white people. What a freaking loon!
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Walter Mitty
June 14, 2010 5:15 PM in reply to Yash
Exactly this. It's classic projection. King favors white people so he figures a black person must obviously favor black people.
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rip
June 14, 2010 5:55 PM in reply to Yash
Mr. King has a default mechanism that favors stupidity, apparently a trait many of his constituents find appealing.
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mezcalero
June 14, 2010 4:43 PM
Keep going Republicans!
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chameleon
June 14, 2010 4:44 PM
Just when you think he can't say or do anything crazier than the last time, he manages to get crazier. I mean seriously, other than their own ilk, who is going to vote for these people.
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Hobbes83
June 14, 2010 6:25 PM in reply to chameleon
The bad part is that if he's this bad, think about how idiotic the people who voted for him are.
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Donald from Hawaii
June 15, 2010 3:32 AM in reply to chameleon
Having been born into an extended family that's chock-full of white-wingers, I can only warn you and others here to never, ever underestimate the political willpower of ignorant white people who are further deluded by a lifetime of imaginary grievances.
After all, Jim Crow laws weren't officially codified and sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessey v. Ferguson until 31 years after the end of the American Civil War, and Ronald Reagan certainly didn't open his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, MS because he admired its scenic vistas.
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gparks
June 15, 2010 7:16 AM in reply to Donald from Hawaii
Well said!
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chameleon
June 15, 2010 12:46 PM in reply to Donald from Hawaii
I know I was raised in a family just like that (except for my mom) but the rest of them were as right wing and ignorant as anyone and come to find out they support the tea partiers in Florida. Oy yoi yoi
However, I still believe the people that will vote for them, are of their own ilk. From what I can tell, its about 28% of the country. You can't win elections with 28%. I still want to believe that most of the country are reasonable and when faced with the choice, they will make the right one. I'm hoping...
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KY Yellow Dog
June 14, 2010 4:45 PM
I'm trying to parse the logic here (yeah, I know, but bear with me):
Black people whose ancestors were brought here as slaves 400 years ago are illegal immigrants?
Black people think they're better off with lots of Hispanic illegal immigrants in Arizona?
Giving billions of tax dollars paid by low- and middle-income black people to a bunch of obscenely wealthy and probably racist white people "favors the black person?"
I only wish Barack Obama would do one single fucking thing that would provide a crumb of actual benefit to black - or poor, or middle-class, or working, or union, or Democratic - people in this country.
Just fucking once.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
June 14, 2010 4:57 PM in reply to KY Yellow Dog
The Making Work Pay credit, the middle class tax cut and health insurance paid for by taxes on the rich don't count?
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FreeRider
June 14, 2010 5:14 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Of course, those things don't count. Neither does extension and expansion of unemployment, food stamps, COBRA subsidies, student loan reform, credit card reform.
Unless the bill has "FOR BLACKS, POOR, UNIONS" stamped across the top, it's for rich, white non-union" folks.
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lotl
June 15, 2010 2:21 AM in reply to FreeRider
"Expanding COBRA subsidies" Sure, OK. That's good as far as it goes. However, most people who have just lost their jobs have a hard enough time paying bills as it is and certainly can't afford insurance that costs much more than what they paid pre tax through payroll deduction while employed. No, this is not Obama's fault. I just wish somebody in Congress, or even the Pres himself might have thought to say, hey, why don't we lower the cost of this a bit? Just sayin'.
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FreeRider
June 15, 2010 7:12 AM in reply to lotl
Because he's king, right? And he could just change the cost of COBRA by waving a magic wand, right? And reducing COBRA payments by 65% is nothing, right?
{rolling eyes}
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SchrodingersCat
June 14, 2010 5:01 PM in reply to KY Yellow Dog
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:53 PM in reply to KY Yellow Dog
That's right: it's all Obama's fault.
If you had bothered to read more than just a shallow analysis of what Obama has and hasn't achieved, you'd realize that it's not him, but both houses of congress who're blocking what he wants to do and that are the problem.
The president is not an emperor. Obama will never be a left wing Bush and force things through.
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EnnuiDivine
June 14, 2010 4:47 PM
"And I don't know what the basis of that is but I'm not a coward when it comes to that "
No, you're not a coward. You're an outright racist.
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donquijoterocket
June 14, 2010 5:54 PM in reply to EnnuiDivine
And doing his best to revive the old joke that Iowa is an acronym for Idiots Out Wandering Around.I kept hoping that folks like him and batshitcrazy Shelly Bachmann would keep pushing census noncompliance with the result that their districts would disappear.
I keep thinking that whenever one declares as a republican they immediately schedule that person for a simultaneous lobotomy and A-hole transplant and if both are successful they're accepted into the party, and if they're really, really successful they're referred to the teabaggers or encouraged to run for public office sometimes both.
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It's Pat
June 14, 2010 4:55 PM
So using that same rationale; does this mean that since King favors the anti-immigration law, he has a default mechanism in him that favors the white person?
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Ugot2bkidnme
June 14, 2010 4:55 PM
This bozo is a "back bench bomb thrower" who throws shit up on the wall to see if anything sticks. It worked for Newt!!!!
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EnnuiDivine
June 14, 2010 4:57 PM in reply to Ugot2bkidnme
Reason # 14,761 why the American people can't afford the House swinging back to the Repubs: this asshole might one day become Speaker of the House
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Ugot2bkidnme
June 14, 2010 9:11 PM in reply to EnnuiDivine
Amen!!!
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happily independent
June 14, 2010 4:59 PM
Steve King: I may not be a coward, but I sure am an Ass.
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Viva!America!
June 14, 2010 5:00 PM
Actually Mr. King, in an argument Obama favors the Democrat. It just so happens that some of them happen to be black, which is an extremely rare occurrence in your party.
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AJM
June 14, 2010 5:03 PM
So according to King, having Mexican immigrants helps Black Americans but hurts White Americans?
Maybe Rep. King had better start talking very fast.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
June 14, 2010 5:09 PM
People dismiss people like King as "crazy," the implication being that they're somehow unique and therefore a think unto themselves. but all he really is is candid. All he's doing here is broadcasting in the clear what others only say in code. Isn't this really just an explicit statement of what the whole party's been campaigning on since McPow brought Palin onboard in 2008?
And in any case, how can you dismiss him as atypical when there are so many competitors for the title of "Stupidest, Craziest Republican in Congress?"
Paul Broun, Michelle Bachmann, Jim Inhoffe and the rest of the Oklahoma delegation, Jim DeMint, Peter King, Joe Wilson and the rest of the South Carolina Republican caucus, Virginia Foxx and Sue Myrick from my own state.
Hell, it's the ones who are sane, serious and not twisted up into constant state of hysterical frenzy over the browning of America who are the exceptions. How many of them are left who aren't retiring this year or at risk of being purged for their impurity next time they're up? Lugar. That's one. Who else? I'm sure there are a few, but I dare say when people name them, they'll be distinct minority of the Republican Congressional causua.
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UTMark
June 14, 2010 5:16 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
And that's just Congress. When you get down to the state level and start including state rep's and senators, things get even worse....
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:19 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
I don't think as many people dismiss him as crazy as they very accurately describe him as extremely dangerous: he favors - even encourages - terrorism in the U.S and abroad, his racism is overt, he proudly encourages violence against people with whom he disagrees, people of different or no religion, and people with more skin pigment than his. And he has a solid, rabid base.
If you aren't a part of King's culture, then in his mind, ideally you are not safe - even if you are a child.
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commie atheist
June 14, 2010 5:19 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Democrats running in the fall need to pound on this, and make it an issue in every close race: "Do you really want these folks back in power?" Combined with reminders of the clusterfuck of the Bush administration, pointing out the outright racist and insane members of the Republican Party will make a lot of "independents" think twice about pulling the lever for a Republican. At least, I sure hope so, 'cause otherwise we all might as well just pack it in, and resign ourselves to another decade or two of right wing, Christianist paranoia masquerading as government.
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CityGuy
June 14, 2010 5:10 PM
I'm afraid that this man named King has a "dream" for America. I'm also afraid that it's the opposite of that other man named King's dream for America.
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commie atheist
June 14, 2010 5:13 PM
It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race.
Actual comment by Eric Holder:
Note that Holder does not say "white people are cowards," he says the nation as a whole has been cowardly in discussing race. I can see where King might have misunderstood Holder, though: Holder says "average Americans," which to a racist like King naturally means white people (see also: "Real Americans," "True Americans," etc.).
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:24 PM in reply to commie atheist
Indeed.
Like so many on the right, especially the most bigoted and the most vocal, all he does in this statement is project his own feelings - that is, hate for everyone outside his own culture, and even those within his culture who disagree with him. I have no doubt he considers them race traitors.
He's the poster boy for right wing terrorism and extremism in it's purest, most obvious form.
King is one of the leaders of America's fast rising neo-nazi movement.
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jeffgee
June 14, 2010 5:20 PM
Iowans:
If you don't want to be called "Idiots Out Wandering Around"
don't re-elect this guy.
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KingCool
June 14, 2010 5:45 PM in reply to jeffgee
I, for one, will still call them that. Just because it's funny.
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greenmean
June 14, 2010 5:26 PM
How pleassssse explain to me how a racist who's not afraid to continually show the nation that he's a racist keep his job in congress, why hasn't anyone called this klansman out?
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:41 PM in reply to greenmean
His support base is more racist than he is. In their eyes, King is a moderate. That's why they honestly believe Fox Noise is fair and balanced: because their world is so full of hate and bigotry coupled with a fear of 'god' and anything that's not of their own culture, treating people with whom they disagree, or who're culturally different to them with simple contempt is them actually being nice. That's why they believe the media is liberal: it's not inherently bigoted against people who aren't white southerners - therefore, they're all commies. Want peace on earth? Commie. Believe in pluralism? Commie. Believe thin Democracy in it's real form? Commie. Believe it's wrong to kill hundreds of children because of their parent's political beliefs? Commie. Believe that torture is wrong? Commie. Believe that humans need trees to breath? And on and on.
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Jasper49
June 14, 2010 5:28 PM
I'm always intrigued by those who stake a claim as to the preferred approach to race. Let's not quibble Congressman; do you consider Irish a race? What about the Black Irish? Are Europeans a racial group? Does that make Spaniards a racial group or not? How about those Italians? Do you like pasta Congressman?
What about those folks in Arizona? Are they a racial group, an ethnic sub-classification, a mispronounced wording or what? What does it mean to be a Caucasian, Congressman, and are you one?
And by the way, Congressman, who gave you all that inside information? Or, did you just make it all up, like most folks who don't do their homework?
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:47 PM in reply to Jasper49
He is and always has been an ardent supporter of the extremist, amoral side of the IRA - especially when they began smuggling arms and their explosives and weapons expertise(terrorists for hire)into Africa and South America to finance their own struggle.
Given that, it's no surprise that when right wing terrorists strike here in the U.S against what he perceives to be his enemies(anyone who doesn't share his views), he supports them and refuses to call it terrorism.
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't helping support a neo-nazi movement dedicated to hit 'race traitors', and ultimately the president. That's right up his ally...
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Observerinvancouver
June 14, 2010 11:54 PM in reply to cinesimon
I thought that was Peter King, the Gooper from Long Island.
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cinesimon
June 15, 2010 1:45 AM in reply to Observerinvancouver
You're probably right. These extremists are certainly beginning to meld into one entity - though along with terrorism in the name of his cause in America, I'm sure I've seen quotes of his proud support of the IRA. Could it be both?
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mc mark
June 14, 2010 5:32 PM
Really Mr King?
And tell me, what color of skin does your party default too?
hum?!?!?!?
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ritetime
June 14, 2010 5:46 PM
I am so friggin sick of the assholes like King who get away with so much shit you can smell it from worlds away.
If the Tea Party was comprised of black people, or any black politician said half the shit these idiots get away with, there would be mass arrest and lock-downS from here to eternity.
These devils are supported by the (hate industry) media and get away with this shit over and over again. STOP IT!
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:49 PM in reply to ritetime
Indeed - imagine if Arabs & Persians started doing it!
That would be all the excuse the right needed for advocating Hitler-style clampdowns on all people of Arab descent, and anyone who even whispers support for them.
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It's Pat
June 14, 2010 5:53 PM in reply to ritetime
Exactly.
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KingCool
June 14, 2010 5:50 PM
These WASPs are just representing the people that elected them. That's what is great about this country. Everybody gets a chance to be heard (in theory). I love hearing from these wads, it just clearly exhibits the fear they have seeing their demographic shrink and become less dominant. The surly guy at the end of the bar bitches loudest when he feels his way of life is threatened.
AND their corporate overlords are pulling their strings harder.
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cinesimon
June 14, 2010 5:57 PM in reply to KingCool
Indeed - and the more we win, the more extreme Kind and his ilk will become.
And violence will start becoming a major problem.
And what's the bet King will be one of the leading supporters of such terrorism?
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lede3957
June 14, 2010 5:55 PM
So.....King, you favor the white person and not by default either. Just out and out favor.
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jsdc007
June 14, 2010 6:49 PM in reply to lede3957
You don't understand. Favoring whites is the normal position, made only more normal if you also discriminate against other races.
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Hobbes83
June 14, 2010 6:24 PM
Yet another example of the racists projecting their racism on someone else. I've said it time and time again and it never gets old because it is one of the most disgusting things about racism in this country; the racists don't know they're racist. Back in the day, one could be proud of being racist because they knew what the title entailed. Now, racism is so rhetorical and implicit that people who say idiotic things like this don't realize the sheer stupidity of their statements.
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ru4862
June 14, 2010 6:54 PM
You know, when you're a white republican u practically get away with saying the most egregious comments.
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ru4862
June 14, 2010 7:04 PM
in the dictionary you'll see Steve King, and probably Michele Bachmann's picture next to the word 'jack ass.'
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acf_ma
June 14, 2010 7:51 PM
When my grandfather got very old, into his 90s, he lost his ability to censor his thoughts, and often behaved like a child, saying and doing things a prudent person wouldn't normally do. I have to wonder if Steve King doesn't also have that defect in judgment which prevents him from using common sense and not saying these kinds of things. OTOH, there must be a significant bloc of voters who gobble this stuff up, and King and his ilk are playing to that audience. In any case, it's vile and divisive politics at its worst.
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NotBornEveryMinute
June 14, 2010 9:30 PM
"a think unto themselves"
cogitant ergo sunt?
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xargaw
June 14, 2010 10:33 PM
Since Obama is actually half white, does that mean he discriminates against himself and thinks less of his white half?
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Observerinvancouver
June 14, 2010 11:46 PM
"their posture"? Maybe he wants them to straighten up and fly white?
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AmericanDad
June 15, 2010 1:32 AM
I am offended by Steve King playing a stereotype that makes white people look like immoral morons completely unfit for adult occupations, much less leadership....
Huh? What?
He's NOT acting? He's NOT mocking society with a skillful rendition of a cheap stereotype? He really is an immoral moron?
Oh.
Nevermind.
As they said back in the day, King is not a credit to his race.
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cinesimon
June 15, 2010 1:41 AM in reply to AmericanDad
Republicans should certainly be offended. Those with brains and a sense of 21st century ethics, anyway.
That, of course, ain't the current republican base. They're stuck arguing a bizarre combination of 1960s and civil war politics that was settled long ago(hence the very apt title given many of theme: 'Lost Causers'), while the rest of us have to deal with the here and now.
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jonez
June 15, 2010 7:13 AM
so by default, all previous presidents favored white people, OMG, now we find out.
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P White
June 15, 2010 7:27 AM
If you're someone who wakes everyday and attempts to make sense of the world around them, you run off the rails pretty quickly. Twenty times a day conservatives make declarations about progressives that there is no evidence of and make accusations about progressive acts that have not been committed by progressives, but by themselves! I think they might actually win out, because the progressive brain has great difficulty functioning outside the "reality based" world and conservatives thrive in the completely fictional world they create for themselves. If Democrats continue to refuse to 'demonize' their opponent (even when they are sporting horns and tails) the Steve Kings win.
When was the last time anyone saw this nutter in a challenging interview with a real journalist who might have, say...asked this hateful lunatic to outline precisely the actual statements or actions Obama has made that back up this claim?
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pmccoy
June 15, 2010 10:13 AM
The man who said that "the ACORN scandal is 1000 times greater than Watergate." He should be an inspiration to us all, as living proof that anybody--anybody at all--can hold public office.
Have to ask yet again, who votes for these imbeciles?
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nancydenis
June 15, 2010 10:52 AM
I'm sure Matt Campbell (D) would appreciate your support in his effort to defeat King. You can contribute at mattcampbellforcongress.com
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