Small time Republican congressman Steve King should know that placing a disclaimer before a bigoted rampage doesn’t make the rampage any less bigoted.
“I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name – whatever their religion their father might have been. . . “
This can only mean one thing: King is going to talk about not just Barack Obama, but Barack Hussein Obama.
“I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”
[nms:barack obama,1,0]
I have a feeling that if anyone other than John McCain wins this election, there will be dancing in the streets in the United States, too. Predictably, King moves on to the name.
“Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter,” King said. “It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name.”
Did this guy not get the memo from Karl Rove? You know, the one about how making an issue out of B-Rock’s name would make the GOP look like bigots?
Did Representative Steve King not get invited to the cool table? Perhaps we should send him the Geek Survey.
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Rep. King’s Missing Memo: 1 Geeks: 0
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