The Terrorist Two-Step

I bet Iowans are "dancing in the streets" after these comments from their charmingly racist, fearmongering, and lying Representative, Steve King.

I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their, their race, their ethnicity, their name - whatever their religion their father, father might have been.

Hey, what a great thing to say! You know what would be even greater? Not then turning around and doing what you just said you didn't want to do. Just, you know, throwing that out there. But hey, I'm not the representative of over half a million 5th district Iowans, am I. So what do I know?

I’ll just say this, that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States — and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?

Optics? Oh, but that's only a hint of the goodies to come.

And I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the, the radical Islamists, the, the al-Qaida, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11….

It does matter, his middle name does matter. It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world, it has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was and because of his posture that says: Pull out of the Middle East and pull out of this conflict.

But I'm sure his name and uh, "optics" as you say, have no meaning to you and your WASP, Republican pals? Just the bad guys?

So there are implications that have to do with who he is and the position that he’s taken. If he were strong on national defense and said ‘I’m going to go over there and we’re going to fight and we’re going to win, we’ll come home with a victory,’ that’s different. But that’s not what he said. They will be dancing in the streets if he’s elected president. That has a chilling aspect on how difficult it will be to ever win this Global War on Terror.”

So, let me get this straight. The only thing that can defeat these "optically-challenged" (read: not white), Muslim, wacky-named terrorists, is what? A good Christian white man? Gotcha. And, by your definition, to be "strong on national defense," you have to employ rhetorical strategies of oversimplification and jingoistic, macho bullshit? Gotcha there, too, tough guy.

But Rep. King? One question. How will the radical Islamists be able to commit acts of terror if they are so busy dancing? That doesn't sound like a "chilling aspect," that sounds like world peace. And to mix in something topical from the world of entertainment into this blog, why can't we send the ailing Patrick Swayze as an ambassador of dirty dancing, in order to encourage further peaceful displays in the streets? Perhaps Obama could appoint him as some sort of dirty, sexy, peacekeeping hunk of man? And what is Baby doing lately? That Jennifer Grey could probably use some work herself.

Or, if Swayze and Grey are out of the question, there's always Usher. And from what I've heard, he has "optics" pretty similar to Senator Obama.




Ooohh...but wait. Then again, maybe this will just be a sign of a terrible new form of terror, around which your Republican friends can refresh their fearmongering tactics...

Suicide dancers! Dun Dun Duuunnnn!