This only took (checks notes) 15 YEARS to happen.
Yep, Rep. Steve "Canteloupe Calves" King (R-IA) has finally been so hateful that even Republicans notice it, in this case Rep. Steve Stivers who’s the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Mass murder does have a way of waking some people up. Or at least making them feel like they need to do some damage control.
Meanwhile, Rep. Stivers, how about that log in your own eye? Just this weekend, hours after 11 Jews were murdered while at worship in their Pittsburgh synagogue, Stivers defended grossly anti-Semitic and racist television ads from his NRCC. The ads, as David Nir describes "are laden with anti-Jewish tropes and portray philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew, as a malign puppet-master of the left."
It’s no surprise, though, that Stivers would stand behind this filth. Last week, just two days after Soros himself was the victim of an attempted mailbox bomb assassination, the NRCC began airing a second ad in Minnesota’s 1st District that, yet again, featured Soros as a bogeyman. This is where we are now: Neither terrorism nor mass shootings are enough to deter Republicans from their hate-filled rhetoric.
So, no, Stivers doesn’t get any credit for finally saying something about King. He’s only reacting to the national revulsion now focused on King, making him the patsy for the racist GOP. If King is this year’s sacrificial lamb and is tossed overboard this cycle, fine. The political world will be better for his absence. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of the party, starting with the white nationalist at the very top, is absolved for its racism and hatred.
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