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November 30, 2010

Steve King Stands Against Reparations (Discrimination Settlement)

by Jack Stuef  

A veritable think-tank.Steve King and Michele Bachmann bravely stood up to Big Discriminated Black Farmer on the House floor last night, arguing against the Pigford II and Cobell settlements, which provide for the government to pay claims to black farmers against whom it once discriminated. According to Steve King, in an artful flourish, these payments are merely reparations for slavery, because black people + farming = slavery. DO THE MATH. Also, President Obama does not care for REAL farmers, who are white. He only cares about black farmers, who are somehow fake and “urban,” despite being farmers. King: “Figure this out, Madame Speaker: We have a very, very urban Senator, Barack Obama, who has decided he’s going to run for president, and what does he do?” He sighs because he has to deal with bigots like Steve King.

“We’ve got to stand up at some point and say, ‘We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress,’” he said. “That war’s been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there’s no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. No one’s filing that claim.

HEY BLACKIES: SOME WHITE PEOPLE DIED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY, SO YOU ARE ALL SQUARED AWAY WITH OUR WHITE GOVERNMENT AND YOU CAN NEVER FEEL SLIGHTED BY ANYTHING IT HAS EVER DONE OR ASK IT TO ASSIST YOU. [TPM]

{ 185 comments }

petehammer November 30, 2010 at 4:48 pm

Iowa – gay marriage is legal but they elect this guy? What is up with that state?

GOPCrusher November 30, 2010 at 4:52 pm

Steve King's home town is the size of a normal city block and probably has a smaller population. It is truly The Land That Time Forgot.
Hopefully, his district will be merged with the rest of the Western half of the state, during redistricting.

zhubajie December 1, 2010 at 8:50 am

That's most towns in Iowa. What *is* his hometown?

Hacklebarney December 1, 2010 at 10:07 am

Storm Lake, Iowa; quite a nice place actually.

zhubajie December 2, 2010 at 4:29 am

Yeah, I grew up a few miles away. I'm one of the many who've emigrated, though.

BerkeleyBear November 30, 2010 at 4:59 pm

Well, the crazy base that actually voted in the midterms just kicked out the judges who legalized gay marriage, a cause King championed. It is the kind of place where people are all for equal rights, as long as no one seeks to enforce them (which then becomes people seeking "sprecial rights" somehow in their minds). Basically corn syrup nation in a nutshell.

sarjo November 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm

Well, as long as the girls all wear the corn syrup candy bikini, I have no objections.

LocalGirlMakesGoo November 30, 2010 at 5:33 pm

Have you even been to Iowa?

Hacklebarney November 30, 2010 at 5:56 pm

Obviously you haven't, we have the prettiest girls in the country!

Hacklebarney November 30, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Gay marriage is illegal because the Iowa Supreme Court found a man/woman marriage amendment passed by the state legislature to be unconstitutional. The good thing is that Steve King and all his fucking asshole-hillbilly-homophobic pals got organized this fall and voted those three judges out of office. I love my state, Iowa is a great place. But Steve King is the closest thing to a devil I've ever seen.

petehammer November 30, 2010 at 6:02 pm

You don't happen to live in Sacramento, CA, do you?

Hacklebarney December 1, 2010 at 10:08 am

Interesting question Pete, I don't live in Sacramento currently (I am in Iowa) but I did about twenty five years ago. Why do you ask?

GOPCrusher November 30, 2010 at 4:48 pm

I congratulate Steve King for truly speaking the real reason behind the Obama Bashing.

Badonkadonkette November 30, 2010 at 4:49 pm

Wow. That could be misinterpreted. I hope he remembered to say "I'm not a racist, but…"

JadedDissonance November 30, 2010 at 5:28 pm

I thought that Jack was taking a wonkette turn of phrase when he typed "We have a very, very urban Senator…"

But no, he actually said that.

Hacklebarney November 30, 2010 at 5:36 pm

No misinterpretation to be had, this guy really is that blatently racist. It seems to be a good campaign tactic in Western Iowa though, he was reelected with nearly 75% of the vote.

Fare la Volpe November 30, 2010 at 5:56 pm

"Some of my best friends are urban."

BarryOPotter December 1, 2010 at 8:29 am

I doubt that any of Steve Luther Lucifer King's friends are urban…, 'ceptin' when they're huntin'

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 7:59 pm

Oh, my! That Inner-City youth is at risk! (Tom Tomorrow had his decoder ring working in 1999)

Redhead November 30, 2010 at 9:58 pm

I was interviewing a woman for work yesterday who told me (out of the blue) "I just don't understand why whites go with blacks these days. I'm not prejudiced or anything. Why don't they just stick with their own?"

Apparently some people have been studying the Faux News teachings (if you say it enough, it's true)

DashboardBuddha November 30, 2010 at 10:07 pm

So…when does she start? (kidding, of course)

Badonkadonkette November 30, 2010 at 10:12 pm

I'm not a racist, but when I see a white woman walking with a black man, I think, "Man, I wish I had a bigger dick."

chilequiles December 1, 2010 at 12:19 am

In what world is it normal to discuss interracial relations during an interview?!?! She does have a point tho. Why won't all those Olds just stick to their own in squarestateistan and die out?

BarryOPotter December 1, 2010 at 8:33 am

…I'm not prejudiced or anything.

I hope you took the opportunity to disabuse her of this false notion. Something along the lines of "Actually, Flo, yes, yes you are prejudiced. You're 'pre-judging' people based solely on the color of their skin. See what I did there, dumb-fuck? Any questions? No, of course not."

zhubajie December 2, 2010 at 4:31 am

I wish I had a dollar for every racist who told me "I'm not a racist." I usually reply with something like "you do a good imitation!"

KathrynSane November 30, 2010 at 4:51 pm

I spent a semester studying abroad in South Africa a few years back. The first white South African I ever met told me that the country was still very unequal, but it was because the black people were lazy and that they had fifteen years to catch up and they hadn't, so obviously they're just lazy and stupid and the government should let them starve.

I guess my point is that rich white dudes all kinda suck, no matter where they're from.

LocalGirlMakesGoo November 30, 2010 at 5:03 pm

I'm white and grew up in South Africa – I hope you didn't get the impression we're all like that.

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 5:07 pm

Can't speak for KS, but my impression is that she was speaking about the universal assholery of the privileged, regardless of where they're from. It's one of the few truly transcendent human qualities.

LocalGirlMakesGoo November 30, 2010 at 5:12 pm

Don't get me wrong, we did leave so that the darkies wouldn't rape our precious white children, but it's not like we're racist or anything.

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Much better–now I know I'm at Wonkette.

pauletteanne December 3, 2010 at 11:33 am

Localgirl, you are from S.A., where 90 whites are murdered a month and you're calling yourself a racist?
You are the minority.
Looks like you are just asking for it.

sarjo November 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm

You people!

Crank_Tango November 30, 2010 at 5:13 pm

If, by some chance, you are Charlize Theron, I love you.

KathrynSane November 30, 2010 at 5:14 pm

Oh no, I didn't mean that! I met lots of awesome white South Africans who I love very much. I meant what DoktorZoom said; privileged assholes are privileged assholes no matter where they're from.

V572625694 November 30, 2010 at 5:27 pm

Every day there isn't a blood bath in South Africa is a triumph. Many problems, to be sure, but it's still awesome how it's playing out. Would that we could have had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Bushite war crinimals (not that 8 years of Chimpy was as bad as apartheid).

SayItWithWookies November 30, 2010 at 6:45 pm

Fuck that — I want war crimes tribunals. I wanna see Dubya weeping on the stand saying "I was only following orders."

V572625694 November 30, 2010 at 7:46 pm

The genius of the South African solution was that if you admitted what you did, you could get leniency, although nothing was guaranteed. If there's no allowance for forthright confession, then the miscreant has no reason to admit anything, and chooses to go down a hero if he's going down anyway. Amazing what pussies bullies become, and how quickly they give up their buddies, when brought to justice.

I can hear that sweet music now, in my mind:

"Feith said it was okay!" "Woo signed off on it!" "Rummy said we shouldn't plan for the occupation!" "Cheney made me do it!"

Terry December 1, 2010 at 8:38 am

"The genius of the South African solution was that if you admitted what you did, you could get leniency, although nothing was guaranteed. "

Mandella's approach of not going for pay backs was huge, too. Leaders in many parts of the world, including several parts of Europe at various times, took a different path.

trampndirtdown November 30, 2010 at 10:16 pm

I have this recuring dream that GW is on trial at The Hague, things are going swimmingly, he's blubbering I'm happy, and then the defense introduces comment logs from wonkette. The dream becomes a nightmare, his lawyers argue that he is a moron, can't be held responsible, look at all these people who think he's retarded. I wake up and think to myself ok today no more snark its all going to be serious. Then I have a few drinks and log back on to Wonkette. It's a vicious cycle.

Dashboard_Jesus December 1, 2010 at 12:14 am

know whut ya mean, it's like 'deja vu' all over again (and I don't even know what the fuck THAT means!)

zhubajie December 1, 2010 at 8:53 am

Probably he'd die of a drug over-dose in his cell, like Milosevic.

Fare la Volpe November 30, 2010 at 6:07 pm

"C'mon, systematically oppressed minority. Why haven't you made yourself equal yet?"

snoopyfan2010 November 30, 2010 at 8:25 pm

Isn't that why they're rich?

ph7 November 30, 2010 at 4:51 pm

I like how he reminds us the the Yankees lost more soldiers in the war. 'Cause that means the South won, actually. But, in so doing, he tacitly connects the war with slavery, something a true Southerner never concedes.

the_onceler December 1, 2010 at 11:49 am

the reason he connects war with slavery is because he's a northerner and a racist rather than a southerner and a racist.

SayItWithWookies November 30, 2010 at 4:51 pm

40 acres and a motherfucker.

PocketsTheClown November 30, 2010 at 8:53 pm

Retarded lawmakers hate retarded law, also.

Dashboard_Jesus December 1, 2010 at 12:17 am

I believe that's 'muthafucka' (least that's how the urban folk in my 'hood say it?)

WunkRocker December 1, 2010 at 9:08 am

Damn, that's what Rosa said, 55 yrs ago. Bitch was urban all up in tha bus. http://searchengineland.com/the-google-rosa-parks...

Dashboard_Jesus December 1, 2010 at 11:55 am

damn, I was jus' readin' about my girl Rosa not two minutes before I saw your reply…hard to believe she told that Alabama bus driver to fuck off over 55 years ago, and yet we STILL got these racist assholes to live with…sweet holy jeebus I'd like to see these fuckers die, at least before I do, again…also

elviouslyqueer November 30, 2010 at 4:52 pm

Steve, I believe the word you're looking for is "Nigger."

problemwithcaring November 30, 2010 at 8:41 pm

Turn on HBO! All you hear is "urban, urban, urban!"

Negropolis December 1, 2010 at 12:18 am

I think you have to say it about fourteen times for it to count. The fifteenth one is free, apparently, according to (Black) Robert's Rules of Order.

horsedreamer_1 December 1, 2010 at 9:08 am

Black Robert's Rules of Order?

Is that anything related to the Dread Pirate Roberts? I mean, Dread implies Ominous, & Ominous is often associated with Dark &/or Black….

Dashboard_Jesus December 1, 2010 at 12:29 am

I can't understand why you don't have at LEAST 100p by now, elvis…I heart U! (oh, and I'm drunk…but definitely NOT gay, I think…yet! :)

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 4:53 pm

I like this logic, and suggest that Representative King use it in the rest of his life: Dear GMAC: The US Government already gave you a bailout, so I do not feel obliged to make any more payments on the 2010 Escalade I just bought my nephew Jim-Bob.

GuyClinch November 30, 2010 at 4:53 pm

I hope somebody puts Steve King in Joe Barton's rifle scope.

WigFlipper November 30, 2010 at 4:59 pm

That won't do much good; draft dodgers aren't great shots

V572625694 November 30, 2010 at 5:29 pm

I"m bettin' Joe owns several hundred guns and considers a day at the firing range a day well spent. Comes with the territory down there.

jus_wonderin November 30, 2010 at 5:51 pm

I don't know why I read that twice and came away with "fringe range".

SexySmurf November 30, 2010 at 4:53 pm

Steve King thinks black farmers only grow watermelons.

Billmatic November 30, 2010 at 4:56 pm

Yes, that's so not true. They also have chicken coops.

DahBoner November 30, 2010 at 4:57 pm

In the winter, they all fly south to Jamaica.

WigFlipper November 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm

I'd say collared greens, but I don't think he's all that familiar with leafy green vegetables.

sussemilch November 30, 2010 at 4:53 pm

Think of the alternative as black people putting white politicians "on farm."

el_donaldo November 30, 2010 at 4:57 pm

I wonder if "very, very urban" is going to be a new FM radio demographic.

Troubledog November 30, 2010 at 4:58 pm

Hey, now. We can't have the black farmer discrimination settlement welfare payments interfering with the white farmer crop subsidy price guarantee tax credit welfare payments.

snoopyfan2010 November 30, 2010 at 8:27 pm

A thumbs up for you, sir.

prommie November 30, 2010 at 4:58 pm

I need to drinky-drinky weepy-weepy even more now.

sarjo November 30, 2010 at 5:00 pm

You're going to need more cars.

Bluestatelibel November 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm

If this is a cry for help, you've going to have to drink a lot harder!

lumpenprole November 30, 2010 at 7:06 pm

That doesn't work well enough anymore. I'm on to bashy-bashy head, gougey-gougey eyes. (Also, pokey-pokey eardrum for Alaskunt.)

DahBoner November 30, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Steve King is a city boy who never worked a day on a farm in his life.

zhubajie December 1, 2010 at 8:55 am

Oh? I suspected that, somehow.

LionelHutzEsq November 30, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Just tell Rep. King that the black farmers are in fact rich, and that the settlement is in fact just a tax cut, and he will OK with it.

Tobacky November 30, 2010 at 9:25 pm

And of course, tell him that they are white.

Negropolis December 1, 2010 at 12:22 am

Yes, that is the most important part of all.

Wonkette, you are the best.

tabouley December 1, 2010 at 12:44 am

Very few blogs can get to the point with such surgical precision, thank you and Wonkette.

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 5:02 pm

Also, there's no need to extend unemployment benefits, because World War II pretty much eliminated unemployment.

BerkeleyBear November 30, 2010 at 5:03 pm

I assume Steve-O will claim he was referring to President Obama's Chicago base as evidence he is "urban" and therefore not normally concerned with agricultural issues. But since a) Obama at the time was the only African-American Senator, and b) this is a very big deal with African-Americans, and c) Illinois is, in fact, a state with a large agricultural base, as well as a large African-American population, Steve can d) go fuck himself with a combine reaper point.

BarryOPotter December 1, 2010 at 8:51 am

I prefer that he use at least two combine reaper points for that spit-roasted loving he so very much deserves.

Bluestatelibel November 30, 2010 at 5:05 pm

That bill has nothing to do with slavery, asshole should actually read something before he acts like an asshole.

WigFlipper November 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm

Steve King: "Dog whistles? I don't need no stinking dog whistles!"

EdFlintstone November 30, 2010 at 5:07 pm

Dont you know USDA loans are only supposed to go to hardworking white farmers?

Crank_Tango November 30, 2010 at 5:07 pm

Then what are corn subsidies reparations for, heingh?

Chet Kincaid November 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm

"On Monday night, he suggested that President Obama, as a senator, may have been prejudiced to help the black farmers. 'Figure this out, Madame Speaker: We have a very, very urban Senator, Barack Obama, who has decided he's going to run for president, and what does he do?' King said. 'He introduces legislation to create a whole new Pigford claim.' He then said the claims — which stem from discrimination against black farmers in the 1980s and 1990s — are 'slavery reparations.'"

What a bounteous feast of racism and ignorance, Wonketeers! Dine at Steven Libel King's lavish table while I try to compose myself, because "my color is about to come up," as the old folks used to say.

ShaveTheWhales December 1, 2010 at 12:44 am

Nicely put. Personally, I consider Steve King to have crossed the event horizon associated with the singularity in the intellectual framework of the universe caused by the extraordinarily dense mass of ignorance of right-wingers (the "white hole").

It's a self defense mechanism. I can't vote against the schmuck, he'll ignore any argument, and I'm not quite ready to write off the rest of my life. So I have to try to ignore him.

He does serve one useful purpose, of course. Whenever I am briefly entranced by the prospect of American Xceptionalism ('cause, you know, every so often one or more of our compatriots does something sort of … exceptional), I simply recall Steve King — and the half million or so Americans who re-elect him.

CherryGarCAhhh November 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm

Next up, Steve King goes to the floor to demand thank you letters from all Native Americans to all White Americans for bringing them civilization and religion and stuff. You know, lots of white cavalry soldiers died in the "Indian Wars".

WhatTheHeck November 30, 2010 at 5:31 pm

As for the Native Americans, the government quickly settled with them by giving them blankets with smallpox to keep them warm and happy for the winter months. They got their settlement early.

snoopyfan2010 November 30, 2010 at 8:30 pm

Dosen't part of the Pigford case involve Native American farmers too?

zhubajie December 1, 2010 at 8:57 am

King's region is called Siouxland for a reason. The Sioux are in fact rather numerous, if mostly in South Dakota. He might well be afraid of having to give something to them. Somehow, I doubt many vote for him.

Texan_Bulldog November 30, 2010 at 5:13 pm

This is all to get back at Shirley Sherrod, right?

V572625694 November 30, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Sure. They all look alike, anyway.

slappypaddy November 30, 2010 at 5:14 pm

he's inexplicable.

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 9:35 pm

Not to mention unspeakable.

chilequiles December 1, 2010 at 12:32 am

inconceivable!

Negropolis December 1, 2010 at 2:25 am

It's irrefudite, even!

twoeightnine November 30, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Silly Mook, grape soda doesn't come from grapes. It comes from purples.

mookwrthwilson November 30, 2010 at 6:41 pm

Purple's a fruit…right…I forgot…

Negropolis December 1, 2010 at 12:20 am

WIN

This man speaks truth. Listen closely, children.

reedred November 30, 2010 at 5:20 pm

It is such a wonderful state of affairs that our society has progressed to the point that US Congressmen and Congresswomen can get national attention for spouting racist drivel. Not since 1933-1934 Germany has it been acceptible to voice such vile vomit. Almost makes me want to be religious so that I can be sure there is a Hell that will accept these two terrifying examples of "Christianity."

JadedDissonance November 30, 2010 at 5:25 pm

And here I thought the House was voting to pay reparations to impoverished descendants of sharecroppers.

Angry_Marmot December 1, 2010 at 3:08 am

At last, my fortune is made.

bumfug November 30, 2010 at 5:26 pm

They don't need reparations, they've got motherfucking iced tea.

PeaceWithHonor November 30, 2010 at 5:32 pm

I was going to combine King and Bachmann with a third douchebag to do an axis of evil riff. But how do you pick only three? More like a double helix of evil.

Salacious Crumb December 1, 2010 at 1:44 am

Mobius Douchebag.

zhubajie December 2, 2010 at 4:34 am

There's probably someone in Nebraska or one of the Dakotas who might serve.

CapnFatback November 30, 2010 at 5:36 pm

If this euphemism holds up, Keith Urban can expect plummeting album sales barring a name change.

Chet Kincaid November 30, 2010 at 6:12 pm

Tell that dirty, urban Keith Urban to keep his filthy urban hands off the pale and delicate womanhood of Nicole Kidman!! Oh, the awful, urban nights that poor lady is forced to endure…

doxastic November 30, 2010 at 5:38 pm

Urban = the arts district
very very urban = MLK blvd

Sparky_McGruff December 1, 2010 at 8:36 am

very very urban = MLK blvd.
Extreme Urban = Malcolm X. Avenue.

DoktorZoom December 1, 2010 at 9:44 am

Not Urban At All = Urban Outfitters

GOPCrusher November 30, 2010 at 5:41 pm

I think we've come full circle. 10 years ago, Steve King probably would have never considered uttering such a racist diatribe. Now? It's almost a Badge Of Honor to say something so Gawd-Awful stoopid, and I can guarantee that on RedState, Biggovernment, Stormfront, etc. he's got people that are not only supporting him, but telling anyone that will listen that only a racist would consider what he said, racist.

lochnessmonster November 30, 2010 at 5:47 pm

And no apology yet??? I didn't mean it THAT way, my words are taken out of context, they're twisting what I said…

anniegetyourfun November 30, 2010 at 5:50 pm

Steve King could take microphone from the floor, shove it deep into his anus, and trumpet a mighty blast of flatulence; I would consider that contribution to be much more intellectual and useful than this latest offering.

Plowmon November 30, 2010 at 5:51 pm

As a participant in Farm Service Agency, SCS, etc. programs I can assure you these black farmers were fucked. But they were fucked right alongside white farmers who maybe didn't hob-nob with the right folks, tow the line, go to church and so forth. But, hey, mistakes were made and if these guys can finally suckle on the government tit then more power to 'em. God bless the free and proud American farmer and God bless cost shares, price supports, disaster payments and low interest loans!

indecencycmdr November 30, 2010 at 5:52 pm

"Haven't we done enough for you people?"

problemwithcaring November 30, 2010 at 6:32 pm

"Instead of colored people saying what we did to them, why don't they say what we did for them."

transfatz December 1, 2010 at 6:53 am

"We will cross the mighty ocean in the Charleston Bay."

SayItWithWookies November 30, 2010 at 9:37 pm

First it was the Wampanoags and the Seminoles and the Cherokee, then it was the Mexicans and the Haitians and the Nicaraguans and Salvadorans and Chileans and the Iraqis and Afghanis — the world is just teeming with cheap greedy bastards. But we let them walk all over us anyway, giving them rights and subsidies and a small share of oil royalties and we even hire one or two instead of bringing in all our own people. But you know what really irks us? It's that they never even have the decency to thank us. And really, is that so much to ask?

guangho November 30, 2010 at 6:21 pm

An academic whore, I have traipsed through much of this great nation, flashing my powerpoints at prestigious Universities including U of Iowa which invited me to possibly shuck corn with them. There is a phrase, "Midwest nice", aka Minnesota Nice, Iowa Nice etc. What it boils down to is that the majority like to be blond, white cherubic ice farmers but if you are NOT a blond, white cherubic ice farmer that's okie doke too AS LONG AS you don't make a fuss about it.

zhubajie December 2, 2010 at 4:35 am

Lots of Hispanics in Iowa these days, esp. Storm Lake. They're about as popular as Germans were a century ago, that is, not at all.

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mrblifil November 30, 2010 at 6:39 pm

He must be slipping. He didn't promise to have Shirley Sherrod hunted down and dragged from a pickup truck, also. Too.

Mort_Sinclair November 30, 2010 at 6:54 pm

I really fucking hate Steve King, that ignorant, hate-mongering, homophobic piece of shit. That's all I've got.

PuckStopsHere November 30, 2010 at 7:09 pm

Well, all 'ya got is pretty good!

BarackMyWorld November 30, 2010 at 7:00 pm

I cannot wrap my brain around King's reasoning.

I have no jokes, just a splitting head-ache.

zhubajie December 2, 2010 at 4:37 am

Because there is none. He wants to save the privileges for his fellow Reptilian oligarchs.

iburl November 30, 2010 at 7:07 pm

If Obama is "a very, very urban Senator" I guess Yaphet Koto is a very, very, very, very urban actor.

horsedreamer_1 December 1, 2010 at 9:22 am

Giardello!

Chet Kincaid December 1, 2010 at 10:42 am

"I hate Urban. I hate Whoopi Goldberg's urban lips. And most of all, I hate that urban-ass Wesley Snipes!"

deanbooth November 30, 2010 at 7:09 pm

Wonkette, you have worn me down today. Maybe it's just post-holiday doldrums, but I'm finding it hard to laugh at the dark storm clouds gathering on the horizon.

So, buttsects! (…and even that reminds me of the ubiquitous GOP hate machine)

DaSandman November 30, 2010 at 7:28 pm

Da negros ain't gettin non O da cash, that shit be reversed for Mr. Halliburton

Sho nuff sirrah…

Troglodeity November 30, 2010 at 7:31 pm

Hey Steve King: get your coded racism straight: Obama had a white mom, so he only rates one "very."

T_Party_Pickens November 30, 2010 at 7:56 pm

Dumb western Iowans can't even pronounce words right. He meant to say Obama is very, very urbane, with his snazzy suits and well spokenness. Correct, Rep. King! Obama is a cultured, worldly sort, unlike dumbshit bigoted western Iowans!

pauletteanne December 3, 2010 at 11:36 am

Dumb western Iowans can't even pronounce words right.

Whats up with THAT Pickens?

ALL Iowans are 'dumb?' Eh?
I guess I would have to agree since a big majority of them voted Obama, so you have a lot in common with the dummies.

donner_froh November 30, 2010 at 8:04 pm

Michele Bachmann appeared with Steve King in a futile attempt to make her look more reasonable and intelligent than the typical knuckledragger. It failed but did show that there might be something in the universe (or just in the House of Representatives) worse than Michele Bachmann.

Radiotherapy November 30, 2010 at 8:08 pm

Urban, rural, or in between, where ever the black folk are, Steve King will hate them.

Troubledog November 30, 2010 at 8:12 pm

Al Sharpton is a very very urban religious leader.

Schmannnity November 30, 2010 at 8:25 pm

Stephen King's next novel to be published under a new name

Blendergoathead November 30, 2010 at 8:29 pm

Hm. Steve King (+) Michele Bachmann (-) clothes (+) hot oil wrestling ring (=)…

Ow. I just made myself sick.

PublicLuxury November 30, 2010 at 8:33 pm

Maybe Steve should experience a corn cob rammed into his cornhole, then the uppity nigga in the White House (AKA President Barack Obama) could have a coloreds team come with their mule and pull it out so they could get back to their 40 acres. Then Obamar could send them their reparations check. 'Cause having to pull this guys head out of his ass is abusive to the farmers. Or Obama could just tell him to STFU.

PublicLuxury November 30, 2010 at 8:54 pm

Obama, "Hey King, eat me."

King, "Excuse me?"

Obama, "Eat me. I'm made of chocolate."

Idiots like King only deserve our most idiotic replies. Before we take them to the vet to have them put down by a Vet.

wegot2dobetter November 30, 2010 at 9:03 pm

So under King's logic, all white president's policies are biased in favor of white people? and they wonder why everyone is high and crashing cars…

mumbly_joe December 1, 2010 at 8:17 am

I'm pretty sure that's not the "logic" King is operating under. After all, it's a well documented fact* that only Ethnics are ever biased, and always in favor of other Ethnics. White people have no bias whatsoever, because white is the absence of race. So when they say or do things that seem indifferent to minorities, or even overtly bigoted, it's not that they "don't care about black people" or "is a racist cumstain of an excuse of a Congressman from Iowa" or whatever, it's just that, being white, they are 100% objective and right about everything.

This is why the identities of non-whites (and incidentally, also gays) is so pertainent to every. single. decision they ever make, and why it's The Worst Sort of (Reverse!) Racism to suggest that white people and white-dominated institutions -such as the USDA in the '80s, justforistance- might be biased against non-whites, whatever your lying eyes tell you to the contrary.

*Well, it's well documented, by racists. But still!

Chet Kincaid December 1, 2010 at 10:48 am

Well said, Mumbles! Obviously you have benefited from the colorblind objectivity of a Great Books education.

modestproposal1 November 30, 2010 at 10:01 pm

Dang those uppity very, very urban farmers. The Civil War totally paid off that debt for the whole slavery thing, and there was even enough surplus left over to f*ck them inside-out for another 100+ years afterwards! Hey, very, very urban farmers – We're cool now, alright? You got your terrist socialist president, so shut the hell up, stop asking for handouts, thank us (white people) for all we've done for YOU, and get back to tilling those crack and watermelon fields, or whatever it is you do.

There's not enough beer on this continent to get me through the next two years.

DustBowlBlues November 30, 2010 at 10:33 pm

There was a time, with their highest in the nation literacy rate and creative writing classes and everyone-being-the-same-color thing, so not crime or discord to speak of, Iowa, with their baseball books and early primary could look down on Oklahoma, and not in just a geographical way.

With this dick and the judges who decided that gay marriage was a matter of civil rights losing in the kind of election that sitting judges never lose, that day has passed.

Welcome to infamy, Iowa. You're as bad as we are, down here in the culturally diverse and fucked up Dust Bowl.

DoktorZoom November 30, 2010 at 10:47 pm

You know, I'm just tired of assholes like King trying to harsh my mellow. I am therefore going to just listen to THIS again and again and again.

Today we are all PUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDI
PUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDI

upthruster November 30, 2010 at 11:49 pm

Read about Bachmann's comments here:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/1110...

I especially like her comeback to the comment about her family farm receiving $250,000 in subsidies…claiming it on her income….then saying she received "not one penny" and her anscestors came here to farm to "essentially get away from socialism in Europe". She's bringin the crazy back now that she's in the majority in the house folks.

Negropolis December 1, 2010 at 12:11 am

Wait, so horror-fiction writer Stephen King and Michele Bachmann have teamed up? Really, it was only a matter of time. The remake of Misery ain't gonna write itself.

Angry_Marmot December 1, 2010 at 3:23 am

And you just better start showing Michele a little appreciation around here, Mr. MAN!

MoeDeLawn December 1, 2010 at 8:13 am

With one-L Michele in the title role? Sweet!

DoktorZoom December 1, 2010 at 9:55 am

How about a gender-swapped recasting, like they sometimes do with America's other great wordsmith, Shakespeare? Michele Bachmann crashes in a snowstorm, and is rescued by her oafish "biggest fan" (let's get John Goodman), who is not at all pleased when he finds her manuscript, in which Bachmann reveals that her political career up to this point has been an intricate piece of performance art.

Let the hobbling begin!

AddHomonym December 1, 2010 at 12:18 am

Stevie King doesn't want to pay reparations? How niggardly!

Negropolis December 1, 2010 at 12:30 am

Poor Indians, always playing second fiddle. Notice how King had absolutely nothing to say about the settlement to the Native Americans who are part of this. But, it'd not at all fit in with his "very, very urban/Civil War" narrative he's trying to paint. I know he already knows this and is just being a dick, but I'd like to remind King Corn that African Americans fought in every war, even the ones in which they weren't free and/or weren't equal…which pretty much covers most of them.

So, yeah, you can kiss the blackest part of my ass, King. Actually, hold off on that; as a Republican, you'd probably enjoy it.

BTW, "Figure this out, Madam Speaker" sounds an awful lot like "Are you listening, Sheeple?"

doxastic December 1, 2010 at 9:06 am

Yeah, I guess "very very reservation" doesn't quite work…

GreasyRabbit75 December 1, 2010 at 12:36 am

18,000 farmers = 94,000 claims of racial discrimination. These cats are multiplying like Tribbles!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lh1KtpKnAE

mumbly_joe December 1, 2010 at 11:41 am

Good point! After all, it's not like the suit itself was because a lot of black farmers lost their farms due to discrimination, resulting in far fewer black farmers today.

Who would have thought, that systematic racism within one particular industry might actually have lasting effects on the racial demographics of that industry, 20 years later? Does not compute.

ShaveTheWhales December 1, 2010 at 12:46 am

Lee Atwater is another one that makes me wish I was religious so I could believe he would rot in Hell for eternity.

Dashboard_Jesus December 1, 2010 at 12:52 am

oh, I can assure you he IS rotting in hell…karmic retribution is a muthafucka, as the 'urbans' say!

horsedreamer_1 December 1, 2010 at 9:16 am

Lee Atwater died from cancer?

He was the cancer.

CessnaDriver December 4, 2010 at 4:16 pm

Atwater was also anti-gay while being gayer than gay gay. It's possible that he really didn't die of "cancer".

LetUsBray December 1, 2010 at 1:07 am

Am I reading too much into Steve Thing's saying, "We have a very, very urban Senator, Barack Obama, who has decided he’s going to run for president,…"? Or can he really not admit that the very, very urban senator fucking WON the election, and now IS the fucking President of the United fucking States?

Numbat_Dundee December 1, 2010 at 7:02 am

I just wanna say (which is the Alaskan way of signalling the onset of a non sequitur) that, as much as I normally love the snark and gossip of Wonkette, I’m finding US politics too depressing at the moment. My homey Assange (a homey in that I’m also a Melbournian) and the British students are keeping me from slashing my wrists at the moment.

transfatz December 1, 2010 at 7:41 am

Racism means never having to say you're sorry.

Clancy_Pants December 1, 2010 at 7:56 am

crack·er (krkr) n. Term for a stupid, poor white person of the rural United States. See Steve King (Iowa Cracker) or Michelle Bachmann (Minnesota Cracker).

neiltheblaze December 1, 2010 at 8:09 am

And Ripple

finallyhappy December 1, 2010 at 8:17 am

I was slightly confused but it is King who is confused(and also dumber than dirt). He made these remarks now about the President- that he is a very very urban senator who is going to run for President. I guessit is really hard for a racist -ahole like King to deal with the fact that the President of the US is a black man – not a senator anymore. I think I have to take Stevie on a ride to Shaw or Petworth on that green line- but not very,very urban anymore-just urban- unless you are from Iowa in which case it is OMG- so many black and brown people!!!! and maybe he'd like to give his speech there.

x111e7thst December 1, 2010 at 8:40 am

I have it on good authority that Steve King likes to wear undies with attached corn-syrup candy. Both as a way of supporting the farmers and because it makes him feel like a real man.

zhubajie December 2, 2010 at 4:39 am

More likely he supports Monsanto, Cargill, Iowa Beef Packers (or whatever they are called these days).

Mindblank December 1, 2010 at 8:48 am

Again, why is this man not writing horror novels? Also, needs more Cobell.

BombyMcGee December 1, 2010 at 9:57 am

Does "very, very urban" mean "annoyingly black"?

Weenus299 December 1, 2010 at 11:39 am

I really fuckin' hate people with microphones in their faces. I really fuckin' hate them.

OneYieldRegular December 1, 2010 at 1:19 pm

If this represents Steve King's knowledge of slavery, one can breathe a huge sigh of relief that Obama isn't Jewish as well.

CessnaDriver December 1, 2010 at 6:19 pm

7-5 that King can be often be found in the middle of the night kneeling at a glory hole in one of the black areas of DC.

HistoriCat December 2, 2010 at 4:33 pm

You lose points for not helping them get lost on the way back to the airport.

pauletteanne December 3, 2010 at 11:35 am

HEY BLACKIES: SOME WHITE PEOPLE DIED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY, SO YOU ARE ALL SQUARED AWAY WITH OUR WHITE GOVERNMENT AND YOU CAN NEVER FEEL SLIGHTED BY ANYTHING IT HAS EVER DONE OR ASK IT TO ASSIST YOU.

——-Sounds like you are trying to relive the Civil War. "Some" people died? 400,000 is some. I guess it was not enough.

LocalGirlMakesGoo November 30, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Didn't mean to startle you.

Dashboard_Jesus December 1, 2010 at 12:10 am

fuck do I love you Wonketeers, I'm just a dumb white hick from Indiana and ain't got nuthin' to say as smart/ funny as y'all but I get all tear'd up readin' stuff like this (not to mention snortin' mah wine thru mah nose, repeatedly!) …gawd bliss 'Merka, fer the FREEDUMBS!

sarjo November 30, 2010 at 5:58 pm

That's what Kerouac says in On The Road, that the sweetest honeys are in IA!

deelzebub November 30, 2010 at 7:13 pm

You can only find the dumb ones, though. About 70% of college grads flee the state.

sarjo November 30, 2010 at 9:45 pm

"Only the dumb ones…"
Is this supposed to be a deterrent?

DoktorZoom December 1, 2010 at 9:43 am

So you're saying that Mandela wouldn't have supported the "pay backs" for slavery in this awful Pigford settlement either? I rest my case. [/SteveKing]

LocalGirlMakesGoo December 3, 2010 at 11:46 am

Ummmm…

The words you are using… I don't think they mean what you think they mean.

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