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NY-03: King (R) calls AARP and NAACP "radical organizations"

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Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 08:58:32 AM PST

Watch the audience laugh at incumbent Republican Peter King after he calls the AARP and NAACP "radical organizations" during a debate with Democratic challenger Dave Mejias.

Like all NY Republicans, Peter King is in serious danger of being swept out in a terrible year for the NY GOP.

On the web: Dave Mejias for Congress

There's been a lot of this sort of thing this cycle -- Republicans making asses out of themselves at debates and getting laughed at. I don't think it's happening more this year than in years past, just that YouTube makes it easy to distribute such mistakes to a far and wide audience.

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