More racist stupidity from Iowa Rep. Steve King:
KING: We went down into the Library of Congress and we found a microfiche there of two newspapers in Hawaii each of which had published the birth of Barack Obama. It would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii and get that into our public libraries and that microfiche they keep of all the newspapers published. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some other explanations on how they might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya. The list goes on. But drilling into that now, even if we could get a definitive answer and even if it turned out that Barack Obama was conclusively not born in America, I don’t think we could get that case sold between now and November.
They’re never going to shut up, are they? They’re never going to get over the fact that there’s a black man in the White House? Criminy.
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Mattminus
MACROAGGRESSION!
IowaOldLady
I asked a reporter friend if Christie Vilsack was likely to defeat King in November. Sadly, the reporter immediately said not a chance. She also said King is charming in person. That one made me choke.
RosiesDad
They don’t care about a Black man in the White House. They just care that he’s the one being served rather than the one doing the serving.
NancyDarling
The fact that King is walking around breathing is a wonderment to me. I don’t think he has even two brain cells in his reptilian brain to sustain lung function, let alone any cells in his pre-frontal cortex.
If he really believes this shit and is just not stirring it up, then he and others like him are really, really stupid.
John (not McCain)
I wonder what would happen if it was pointed out to them that, not only is there a black man in the White House, there’s a black man HAVING SEX in the White House. On the taxpayers sheets!
japa21
@NancyDarling: I used to think they knew all the bile they were spewing was false, but they did it to rile up the truly bigoted and uninformed among their constituents. But of late, I think they have vomited this stuff up so many times that it has wormed its way into their own minds and they now believe it.
not motorik
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
japa21
@John (not McCain): Hey, that might actually be a winning strategy. So many of them would stroke out the GOP would lose half of its base.
Davis X. Machina
@IowaOldLady: Representative government, when it works as intended, in a Congressional district, state, nation of assholes, produces a House, senate, government of assholes.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves….
Tone In DC
Just. Can’t. Take. This.
These people are enough to cause me road rage, and I am (thankfully) nowhere near my car.
Three years ago, about 27% of this country lost their damn minds. And, these brain donors apparently have no chance of recovering anytime soon.
Tone In DC
Just. Can’t. Take. This.
These people are enough to cause me road rage, and I am (thankfully) nowhere near my car.
Three years ago, about 27% of this country lost their damn minds. And, these brain donors apparently have no chance of recovering anytime soon.
Jay in Oregon
The worst part is, this birther nonsense shits the bed for every African-American who follows Obama.
The next major AA candidate will have to put up with racist fuckwads sniggering about “maybe we should check his birth certificate, too.” They will NEVER accept a black President. Never.
Villago Delenda Est
Nope. They never will.
It has driven them beyond batshit insane (most of them started out there) into new realms of insane that we’re struggling to find adjectives for.
NancyDarling
@IowaOldLady: The bar for charm in some people’s minds is very low.
Villago Delenda Est
Nope. They never will.
It has driven them beyond batshit insane (most of them started out there) into new realms of insane that we’re struggling to find adjectives for.
NancyDarling
@IowaOldLady: The bar for charm in some people’s minds is very low.
Villago Delenda Est
Nope. They never will.
It has driven them beyond batshit insane (most of them started out there) into new realms of insane that we’re struggling to find adjectives for.
Villago Delenda Est
Nope. They never will.
It has driven them beyond batshit insane (most of them started out there) into new realms of insane that we’re struggling to find adjectives for.
Villago Delenda Est
FYWP! Many, many MANY times. As many as my posts that you spam!
Jay in Oregon
The worst part is that this birther nonsense shits the bed for every African-American candidate that follows Obama. Fuckwads like King will snigger and say “hey, maybe we should ask for his birth certificate, too!”
They will never accept any AA president as legitimate. Ever.
LanceThruster
This always reminds me that I love humanity…it’s people I can’t stand.
kc
What a douchebag.
Xecky Gilchrist
They’re never going to get over the fact that there’s a black man in the White House?
Nope. Never. Not even after he leaves – they haven’t gotten over school integration, they’ll never get over this.
A discouragingly large slice of our political scene these days consists of people who cannot be satisfied. The entire Republican party is like that with Democrats in power (and mostly when Republicans are in power and they play the victim anyway.) On our side there are the pony-lacking firebaggers, but they’re not in charge, thank goodness.
jl
I guess you could give King an EKG, and it would look like brain activity. Now, how that reading was zapped in from the space aliens on Planet X who constructed him out of Shaving Cream Atoms, that is something worthy of future research. But not sure if we could nail that down before the election.
Yeesh. Loon.
And I did not know he was enabler of animal fighting.
Vicious.
Vicious loon.
trollhattan
@IowaOldLady:
Spent a reasonable amount of time in his district when my grandmother was still alive, and never encountered anybody remotely like rep. King. I get the feeling he was created in the lab by Monsanto or ADM.
Grandma, a good Roosevelt Democrat, would have chewed the likes of him out but good.
PWL
Stupid and persistent, that’s the wingnuts…just like a turtle which keeps trying to climb out of an aquarium.
Darkrose
Now, now. There’s a perfectly good explanation for why this isn’t racial because black president….
…oh, wait…
Rafer Janders
@Tone In DC:
Oh no. They’ve always been this way. It’s just more out in the open now.
kc
I did a comprehensive investigation and found no solid unimpeachable evidence of Rep. Steve King fucking goats. It would be awfully hard for him to fuck goats on a consistent basis while “serving” in Congress and fundraising. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t fucked a goat or six or twelve. But, realistically, even if he’s fucked 100 goats, I don’t think we’re going to be able to get the proof and sell the case that he is, literally, a serial goatfucker, before the election.
jl
@kc: Now that I know what King is up to, I would not worry about him having sex with goats as much as him cutting them up for kicks or money, or both.
LanceThruster
I used to think it was something else but you can’t get away from their *certainty* that the worst and dumbest white person is _always_ better in every way than your best and brightest “mud” person.
And since President Obama is of mixed race parentage, he is living proof, I guess, of how miscegenation totally trumps his superior white blood and turns him into the worthless mongrel that Rethuglican Chicken Littles have so bravely ans persistently been warning us about.
[sigh]
IowaOldLady
@trollhattan: I’d love to see Vilsack defeat him, partly just to have him gone. But also, Iowa has never had a woman senator, congressperson, or governor, and that’s a record that needs to be broken.
trollhattan
@kc:
A casual drive around the Storm Lake area would make a strong argument for replacing the goats with pigs.
Just sayin’.
LanceThruster
@trollhattan:
Could he have escaped from Disneyland’s old Monsanto “Adventure Through Inner Space” ride as his brain dimensions certainly seem to correlate with his processing capaskity.
pseudonymous in nc
Steve King (R[acist]-IA): still competing for the gold medal in “being a white supremacist while elected to Congress”.
jl
Checked Wonkette, since that is a natural choice of news and analysis of this schmuck. Look like King hit the trifecta:
‘ In explaining himself, King argues that animals have more rights than fetuses, and suggests that
liberals have so devalued life, that a man can rape a young girl, kidnap her, force her to undergo an abortion across state lines, and then “drop her off at the swingset….and that’s not against the law in the United States of America.” ‘
wonkette.com/479791/iowa-rep-steve-king-why-is-it-wrong-to-dog-fight-if-it-is-okay-to-rape-and-kidna…
So we have racism, animal cruelty and sadistic pedo rape fantasies. This guy needs help, IMHO.
trollhattan
@IowaOldLady:
Did not realize that. Seems improbable in this day, but I suppose “tradition matters.” Sigh.
Villago Delenda Est
@jl:
You know, this is somewhat like a snark-filled thread here at BJ, except everyone is hep to the joke.
King is being dead serious about this shit.
Some of his constituents obviously are, too.
The staff of The Onion is again challenged to find something even more absurd to mock this with, and it’s getting increasingly more difficult to stay ahead of the loons.
Ash Can
@IowaOldLady:
Now see, this is what I don’t get. All along, the guy has been a standard-issue right-wing bigot/misogynist in a safe seat, and now he goes birther? Why now? Who’s he trying to impress? Or has his ODS dementia simply progressed to this stage at this time?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@jl: Except King would argue that a man can rape a girl and the girl can get in trouble for wanting an abortion.
Ben Cisco
@not motorik: Seriously, MOTHERFUCK YOU, TROLL.
RaflW
@IowaOldLady:
If you want to slide a few bucks to help unseat Steve King, here’s the IA-02 ActBlue page for Christie Vilsack.
NancyDarling
@Ben Cisco: I was meaning to say that!
jl
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): Yes, Good point. We do not know what part of that absurd and nasty and totally counterfactual pedo rape fantasy King found troubling.
Your guess it was the tween age victim having an abortion would be the problem is as good as any.
Kevin
I have an idea for what would a fun Balloon Juice contest: a vote for the slimiest, most unhinged Rethug pseudo-human politician :) You have so MANY of them, has any patriotic soul tried to track down their hatchery and bleach it out of existence? I’ve been trying to come up with my favorite (winner – no apparent sanity), but their clown car keeps disgorging so many of them EVERY SINGLE DAY that it is like trying to pick a puppy from a cast-of-thousands litter. I’d like to hear from the BJ commentariat on who’s the worst of the worst; offhand I’d pick Limbaugh even though he’s not a politician :) I refuse to believe he could believe a word he says, but he does great in the all around competition. Bonus points for citing your nominee’s best certifiable moment.
Boots Day
I’m not surprised that he’s trying to stir up a little birther nonsense, but to say it would be hard to get a fraudulent newspaper into the public library? He seems to think that librarians are reading everything in the newspaper and saying, “Y’know, this Jayson Blair story just doesn’t add up. Let’s not put this one on the shelves.”
That’s just criminally stupid.
liberal
@RaflW:
My folks vote in IA. They said Vilsack is a very weak candidate.
Of course, in a sane world, roadkill would beat King, but that’s not the world we live in.
The Fat Kate Middleton
From election projection.com:
The new district includes Ames, location of Iowa State University, which should help Christie. My relatives in the newly redrawn district are GOTV’ing like crazy for her. She could use our help as well. Go here: http://www.christievilsackforiowa.com … and click on the red “Contribute” button. I can’t tell you how tired we all are of King being the embarrassment he is.
LanceThruster
@Kevin:
They say, “these freaks come a dime a dozen.”
I’m lookin’ for the guy who’s supplin’ the dimes.
Koch brothers?
[apologies to Freddy Blasse]
The Fat Kate Middleton
@liberal: We visit W. Iowa and relatives there 2 or 3 times a month (own farmland there). She’s actually a very strong, good candidate – it’s just that the very nuttiest of the wingnuts live in that part of the state. Eastern Iowa, where we now live, is a different landscape altogether.
elmo
@jl:
Since that was the only part of the hypothetical that isn’t actually illegal, I think you’re spot on. He could only have been talking about the abortion being “totally legal in the United States of America,” and that’s the only part that bothered him.
Comrade Mary
Telegram from Kenya? REALLY?
(At least it made me look up this.)
trollhattan
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
Being originally from NW Iowa I must point southward and relate a favorite quip: ceding southern Iowa to Missouri would increase the IQs of both states. Discuss.
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Mary:
It’s totally stupid, but that’s Steve King for you.
Stupidity exploring new nadirs in stupid.
jl
@elmo: Maybe the mere act of a 13 year old getting an the abortion is not illega. But I would think the rapist forcing his 13 year old victim to get an abortion would be illegal, regardless of whether she or her guardians might decide to get one or not.
So, Steve King: nuts and sicko.
The Other Chuck
King haz a sad that raped children can get abortions.
This is the kind of person Iowa puts into office.
I want the fucking USA dissolved. There are too damn many pigfucker states I simply won’t tolerate in my country.
jl
@trollhattan: Thanks for that pro tip. I will remember if I pass through that part of the country.
Glad Ames is in King’s district now. A lot of smarties at U of I at Ames, (especially statistics, yeah!) and am glad they will be have part of doom on King this November.
jl
@jl: I meant ECG above. But given his stand on animal fighting for fun and profit, EKG would work too, since the existence of a heart is questionable.
Phoenician in a time of Romans
That doesn’t mean there aren’t some other explanations on how they might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya.
Just…
Who exactly is “they” in this madness here? The mysterious illuminati who looked at a half-African Kenyan newborn of no special parentage 50 years ago and said “Yup – he’s our future puppet President”? Obama’s Time-Travelling Committee To Retroactively Qualify The President?
WHO IS “THEY”, YOU MORONS?!???!???!?!?!?!?!???!?
Spatula
Why the fuck do you give a flying shit fuck what Steve Fucking Dumbass King says?
No, he is never going to get over it? Who cares? He is a moron.
Mock as needed, but the faux surprise and outrage is so 2008.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Ben Cisco: If you pie no one else, you should pie ABL’s trolls. Assuming you can, of course. I think there’s only one who whines here about the cross-posting or otherwise takes a dump on her threads who ever posts anywhere else.
ETA: And, well, Timmeh.
Spatula
@RaflW:
Ah yes, why do I always forget? Faux outrage posts like this are always about the Benjamins.
AxelFoley
Fuck that cracker ass cracker. Of all the bitches in Congress, I hate–yes, HATE–that muhfucka and Bitch McConnell the most.
NancyDarling
@Spatula: What Ben Cisco said @41.
kc
@Spatula:
I dunno, because he’s in the United States Congress and can make laws that affect each and every one of us?
Elias
“But drilling into that now… I don’t think we could get that case sold…”
Drill, baby drill, yeah! Drill your own grave.
Spatula
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Wow. Blatant lie. I rarely post in ABL’s threads.
Your ability to convince yourself of bullshit being true does not, however, surprise me.
AxelFoley
@kc:
Thank you.
@Spatula – would you kindly go fuck yourself? And go fuck not motorik while you’re at it.
El Cid
Hawaii was mad about the US overthrow of its native government in 1893 and annexation in 1898, so it obviously began plotting with the British-colonized Kenya colony so that a Luo tribesman would in the 1960s be able to travel to the US under a student scholarship program which they knew would be established over half a century later by a Democratic president who would be assassinated a mere month before Kenya could declare independence.
If you can’t see that link, well, I can’t help you. I can’t help you if you can see the link, either. In general I’m just useless as far as you’re concerned.
jon
I love that a Hawaiian newspaper would get a telegram from Kenya that would be totally believed. No, two telegrams to two papers. Both from Kenya and to newspapers in Hawaii. And the papers just didn’t think anything of it?
James O’Keefe: pack your bags, sonny! There’s a hot story for you to check on. Exotic locales! Mysterious messages! Excitement! Travel! Adventure! (Bring that hooker outfit and a blonde wig.)
Mark B.
@jon:
FROM: NAIROBI KENYA AUGUST 4 1961
TO: HONOLULU STAR
BABY BOY BARACK BORN THIS MORNING IN HONOLULU HOSPIOTAL, FATHER BARACK OBAMA, MOTHER KATHLEEN DUNHAM OBAMA STOP
PLACE BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT STOP PAYMENT BY WIRE OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS WILL BE FORWARDED WHEN BOY BECOMES PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES STOP
ABL
@Mark B.: HA!
Emma
@Comrade Mary: When I read that I nearly passed out laughing. IIRC, the notices were placed by the hospitals, not the parents. It was a legal requirement.
Emma
@Phoenician in a time of Romans: The Bad Time Lords. The Bad Time Lords, I tell you!
Patricia Kayden
@Mark B.: Best comment so far!
Perhaps King is especially enraged that it was the state of Iowa which really kicked off Obama’s election prospects after he won the primary there. As many of you may recall, before he won Iowa, quite a few people doubted that he could win the nomination.
salon.com/2008/01/04/iowa_dems/
canadian shield
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
Thats kind of an unfortunate url: christi evil sack for iowa
At a glance thats how my mind saw it
Porlock Junior
@AxelFoley:
Actually, I’ve enjoyed some of Spatula’s comments in this thread. Not the first one, of course! But since that one I’ve seen nothing from her/him/it (listed alphabetically) but humorous remarks about pie.
Not that I’d want to encourage more, which would be too much of a good thing.