Steve King dared a conservative outlet to release audio of him calling immigrants 'dirt.' It did.

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Source: Washington Post

Steve King dared a conservative outlet to release audio of him calling immigrants ‘dirt.’ It did.

By Kristine Phillips November 12 at 12:56 PM

Rep. Steve King, the newly reelected Iowa Republican with a history of incendiary comments about race and immigration, dared a conservative magazine to show evidence that he had called immigrants “dirt.”

“Just release the full tape,” King, who eked out a narrow victory last week despite affiliations with white nationalism, told the Weekly Standard’s online managing editor Saturday on Twitter. Days earlier, the magazine published a story saying that King had made an inflammatory joke about immigrants.

At King’s urging, the Weekly Standard released said recording, ending — for now — the days-long Twitter fight with the controversial congressman who had accused the magazine of lying and fabricating a story.

In the two-minute audio, King was bantering with a handful of supporters at the back of an Iowa restaurant during a campaign stop on Nov. 5, the Weekly Standard reported. He talked about pheasant hunting and his “patented pheasant noodle soup” sprinkled with whole jalapeño peppers he had grown himself. Around the 1:20 mark, King joked that he’d have to get some “dirt from Mexico” to grow his next batch of peppers because they didn’t have enough bite.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/12/steve-king-dared-conservative-outlet-release-audio-him-calling-immigrants-dirt-it-did/

[Sneederbunk]

1. Have no use for King, but reference appears to be to soil.

[marble falls]

2. I loathe King, but it reads dirt as in dirt to me, too. Then I read the rest of the article ...

another person, a woman mentions plenty of "dirt" coming up from Mexico and he replies about plenty of dirt coming up into the country. He went from dirt to immigrants on a dime.