Posted on 01/11/2019 2:28:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON, DC -- Iowa Congressman Steve King is once again seeking to distance himself from his own words as fellow Republicans in Congress accuse of him of making more racist comments.
The latest controversy from the 4th District Republican from interview King conducted last week that appeared in an article published on Thursday in the New York Times. In the article King is quoted defending the terms 'white nationalism' and 'white supremacy':
“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Mr. King said. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”
The comments set off a firestorm of attacks on the congressman online, including from one of the top-ranking Republicans in the US House, Rep. Liz Cheney.
We reached out to Congressman King's office today to clarify the statement. His office released a statement clarifying his stance on the ideology connected to those terms. The Congressman's office has not denied that the quote is accurate, though.
“Today, the New York Times is suggesting that I am an advocate for white nationalism and white supremacy. I want to make one thing abundantly clear; I reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define. Further, I condemn anyone that supports this evil and bigoted ideology which saw in its ultimate expression the systematic murder of 6 million innocent Jewish lives.
It’s true that like the Founding Fathers I am an advocate for Western Civilization’s values, and that I profoundly believe that America is the greatest tangible expression of these ideals the World has ever seen. Under any fair political definition, I am simply a Nationalist. America’s values are expressed in our founding documents, they are attainable by everyone and we take pride that people of all races, religions, and creeds from around the globe aspire to achieve them. I am dedicated to keeping America this way.
This conviction does not make me a white nationalist or a white supremacist. Once again, I reject those labels and the ideology that they define. As I told the New York Times, ‘it’s not about race; it’s never been about race.’ One of my most strongly held beliefs is that we are all created in God’s image and that human life is sacred in all its forms.”
On Wednesday, Republican State Senator Randy Feenstra of Wall Lake announced he will challenge King in a primary in 2020. The Des Moines Register reports a second Republican, Bret Richards of Irwin, will also challenge King in the primary. Governor Kim Reynolds and the Republican Party of Iowa both say they won't endorse a candidate in the primary race.
King won a 9th term in Congress in November in his closest election yet. He captured just 50% of the vote despite registered Republicans far outweighing registered Democrats in his district. He faced a deluge of negative press in the closing days of the campaign for his support of right wing political candidates in Canada and Eastern Europe who've supported white supremacist ideals.
I think I slapped myself upside da head today, or should have. At the deli counter in our local food market, I ordered some WHITE AMERICAN cheese. When I realized my sin, I ducked my head and hoped nobody but the deli employee had heard me./ Sarc.
oops, wrong King :-\
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Tip toe carefully in the PC landmine world.
Anyone can say something stupid, insensitive or something that looking back... you just really wish you had kept your mouth shut. It happens. And then there are folks who make a habit out of it. Steve is rapidly becoming a political liability. I will leave it to everyone to draw their own conclusions as to whether or not he really is a bigot. I have my opinion. Suffice to say, I wouldn’t vote for the guy.
Attack the media. Call them lying neo-Nazi propagandists. Nothing throws a leftist off course more than calling them Nazis.
Instead of apologizing or "clarifying," what you should have done was double-down and called the New York Slimes out for misrepresenting your statements.
It isn't "White Supremacy" to defend American culture, American values, our Founders, our Constitution, and our American way of life, all encompassed by Western Civilization.
Now the GOP is going to throw you overboard, you just lost your 2020 re-election, and the leftist, Marxist, anti-American agenda that promotes open borders and so-called diversity will continue to march on.
You would think they would have learned from Trump.
“On Wednesday, Republican State Senator Randy Feenstra of Wall Lake announced he will challenge King in a primary in 2020. The Des Moines Register reports a second Republican, Bret Richards of Irwin, will also challenge King in the primary.”
King will lose his own party’s nomination in 2020.
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
Steve’s the best we’ve got in the house, by far.
it’s obvious the gopes/bushites in the uniparty are trying to pull another Akin/Moor/ODonnell/Miller/McDaniel, etc. on him. i’ll be supporting him to the hilt again come 2020.
I do not feel the need to explain myself to anyone.
“The comments set off a firestorm of attacks on the congressman online, including from one of the top-ranking Republicans in the US House, Rep. Liz Cheney.
‘These comments are abhorrent and racist and should have no place in our national discourse. Steve King asks how terms ‘white nationalist’ and ‘white supremacist’ became offensive’ | TheHill https://t.co/yL23avpNFB
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) January 10, 2019”
Liz, please share with us your outrage over the abhorrent and racist nature of a “Black Congressional Caucus.” Please shout from the rooftops how offensive such an organization is.
Thanks, Liz.
RE: King will lose his own party’s nomination in 2020
And because Republicans are so wobbly, instead of standing on principle, they will not take the house in 2020.
Funny how racist and anti-Semitic Democrat Reps are never attacked nor face calls to resign from their own party.
We moved to Iowa a couple of years ago. I miss the red states where we lived for many years. Iowans are infected with Minnnesota niceness. Or as Chesterton said, “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
Depends what part of Iowa, that’s for sure.
Why is everyone so quick to accept the lefty narratives?
There won’t be anybody left by the time they are done. You cannot let your enemy define the terms in a debate, or you’ll lose every time. Establishment Republicans are either hopelessly naive or in some cases complicit.
And how are the lefty loonies defining our terms these days? Basic irrefutable facts are now “white supremacist”, arithmetic, punctuality, mowing your lawn, we can go on all day. I’m not making this up. We are in a war, if you hadn’t noticed. People must fight back against literal madness, these loons cannot be appeased, they won’t shut up and they won’t change the subject.
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