GOP Congressman Tells Voters That Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was Really A ‘Compliment’
Source: Think Progress
GOP Congressman Tells Voters That Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was Really A Compliment
By Adam Peck on Sep 7, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Congressman Steve King (R-IA) participated in a radio debate with Democratic challenger Christie Vilsack last night, and was given a chance to explain a comment he made in May comparing immigrants to dogs.
But instead of apologizing, or even explaining how he simply misspoke, King told the audience that the comment was really meant as a compliment, and that anyone who interpreted it as an insult namely, everyone was simply motivated by partisanship and incapable of cooperation:
VILSACK: Frankly, hes been a bully, and hes an embarrassment to the people of Iowa when he talks about immigrants as animals. If my mother were here she would say to Congressman King show some decency.
KING:
This American vigor that we have that comes from legal immigrants who came to this country with a dream we get the cream of the crop of every donor civilization on the planet and people that can take a compliment and turn it into an insult are not going to be constructive working across the isle. But thats what that was, was a compliment. And everyone who was there that heard that knows that.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/07/812831/gop-congressman-tells-voters-that-comparing-immigrants-to-dogs-was-really-a-compliment/
mac56
(17,566 posts)They surprise me yet again.
Kingofalldems
(38,451 posts)They all do this. There must be a training course they are given.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)mac56
(17,566 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)mac56
(17,566 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)mecherosegarden
(745 posts)My pedigree is better than yours , and it came with a brain and a heart. Yours is only a carcass filled with hatred and bigotry.
Signed: A proud immigrant who became a more proud American Citizen.
mac56
(17,566 posts)If you take that compliment and turn it into an insult, you're not going to be constructive working across the aisle.
Bigredhunk
(1,349 posts)That this douche is from IA (and, hell, the US).
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)then sits back and watches the reactions.
He is a dangerous person to have in Congress. Hopefully, Vilsack can knock him out of the House and we won't have to put up with him humiliating comments.
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)Here is where to contact her and her people..Maybe we can get rid of this bully. Not likely, but maybe..
http://www.christievilsackforiowa.com/
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)...
King anecdotally likened immigrants to bird dogs, and explained to the silent audience that the country should admit friskier immigrants, not the one thats over there sleeping on the corner.
Amazingly, this is not the first time King has compared immigrants to animals.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)I've had the misfortune of hearing him bloviate regularly on WNAX radio out of nearby Yankton, SD. The jocks on that station are wannabe Limbaughs, but embarrassingly bad at it.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)muzzle and a leash and offer to take him for a walk if and when nature calls.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)PossumSqueezins
(184 posts)and I mean that as a complement.
sakabatou
(42,148 posts)CBHagman
(16,984 posts)...said he wanted him for his "partner in Washington, D.C." Yeah, of course the Republican nominee for president is going to endorse a Republican incumbent...but King is just so odious on multiple levels.
bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)A quote:
tabasco
(22,974 posts)But, in fact, dogs are better than people.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)cretin is also a child of immigrants and since he thinks that immigrants are dogs, does that make him a son of a bitch? Just asking?