Steve King posts image of Obama in a turban, calls Obama speech a 'Jihadi recruiting tool'

[inanna]

Mon Feb 09, 2015 at 01:27 PM PST

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There really is no way to put my own contempt for Iowa Rep. Steve King into words. He's spent his entire career in one long dogwhistle for the racist elements of the base. He's either among the dumbest people imaginable or a sociopathic liar. He probably constantly smells of ham and bitterness. So when Steve King, actual elected person, goes on Twitter to share a picture of the president of the United States wearing a turban, and when Steve King, actual person responsible for things like laws and wars, posits that Obama's "Crusader" speech is now a much bigger Jihadi recruiting tool than Gitmo, there's really nowhere to even go with that.

We could pretend to be surprised by Rep. Steve King, but of course we're not. We could continue to marvel at the oversized power Rep. Steve King, by virtue of being the loudest xenophobe in the House, holds over the entire rest of his caucus—but given that all of Republican strategy consists of the struggle to pander to racists and xenophobes while maintaining plausible deniability amongst normal people, it only stands to reason that the members willing to cross back and forth over that line the most (Steve King on immigrants 'n foreigners; new House Majority Whip Steve Scalise on being "David Duke without the baggage&quot get put in charge of how to do it.

So instead we'll just raise our eyebrows to observe:

— There are apparently people in this country still under the impression that Obama is a Muslim, or at least Muslim-ish, or at least a foreigner. Some of them draw political cartoons. Some are in charge of our laws. Many of them still conflate being Muslim with wearing a turban, a common mistake that continues to be responsible for dumb hate crimes by stupid people, but stupid people are of course our nation's slowest learners. We should pity them.

cont'd...

Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/09/1363392/-Steve-King-posts-image-of-Obama-in-a-turban-calls-Obama-speech-a-Jihadi-recruiting-tool

[Peacetrain]

1. Steve King is a reprehensible human being

I live in this guys district. He has been at this kind of nonsense since the day the President was elected. Why people refuse to read the Presidents complete speech, is beyond me..but jump on a word or a short sentence and try and make something out of it to fit a perverted thought process that they hold on to for dear life.

It is beyond simple stupidity or lack of knowledge about a subject. It is willful and purposeful ignorance.. glorified ignorance.. .

[inanna]

2. >> I live in this guys district.<<

Oh I am so sorry! Seriously...



What a jerk he is.

[Peacetrain]

3. Thank you

There are days here in western Iowa, that you begin to wonder what people are thinking when they go into the polls and pull the lever for this man.. Almost makes you lose faith in humanity .. And our local Democratic party could use a giant hug as we try to reason with people. The crazy thing is, you call people up and they cannot stand this guy.. who is electing him?? ..

[Frustratedlady]

4. I live in his state, which is about as close as I want to get to King.

He thinks he's cute and clever. You could probably say the same about skunks.

[Peacetrain]

5. No kididng..

As soon as hubby retires, we are moving the heck out of this area.. maybe to Johnson county.. anywhere but here.. and that is such a sad sad thing to have to say.. So many great people live in this area..but we have this bozo running around just spouting off craziness .. its embarrassing to say the least.. sigh

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Goes right over their heads.

By using the C word, Obama was messaging the moderate Muslim community. That he understands that deep unresolved anger and takes part ownership. Its a way to diffuse the propaganda of the extremists who insist that the "other side" has no conscience.

And in the same stroke he is confronting ISIS and exposing them as hypocrites. It at least might give pause to any new recruits that may be thinking of joining up.

This unfunny cartoon is so backwards its laughable. They don't even understand that it is in how you use the word. Bush used it in the way that the cartoonist is portraying...yet where was the outrage then? He actually advocated a new Crusade. Now THAT is incitement.

[Jefferson23]

7. He is a hateful man..he spreads hate for a living. n/t