'I have nothing to apologize for': Racist Rep. Steve King blames the media for exposing his racism
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Rep. Steve King remains an unapologetic white supremacist, emphasizing the “unapologetic” part of that in a Thursday interview. King was stripped of his committee assignments in January after asking, in a New York Times interview, “White nationalist,'I have nothing to apologize for': Racist Rep. Steve King blames the media for exposing his racism
Rep. Steve King remains an unapologetic white supremacist, emphasizing the “unapologetic” part of that in a Thursday interview. King was stripped of his committee assignments in January after asking, in a New York Times interview, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?” He still plans to run for re-election in 2020, though, and in an interview with Iowa Public Television he was defiant, blaming the media for a months-long conspiracy to take him down. “I have nothing to apologize for,” King said. “We know what the news media has done continually, and the president has labeled the New York Times a dishonest entity.” King laid out a string of articles on his racism that, he claimed, were false, with then-National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Steve Stivers having “capitalized” on one of them. King offered no explanation why the head of the committee dedicated to electing Republicans to the House would have been looking for ways to attack a Republican member of the House, but implied that this had something to do with the massive Republican House losses in November. “By the time we got to January 10, however, I had been warned that they were going to try another move, they tried another move, and that came out of the New York Times,” King said, without quite explaining who “they” are. King denied saying what he was quoted saying in the Times, but did detail a Christian Science Monitor interview in which he decried that “terms had been weaponized by the left,” including “racist, and Nazi, and fascist, and white nationalist—I didn’t say the other word, the white supremacy one.” King says that in the New York Times interview he was just talking about Western civilization, not white nationalism or white supremacy, but the newspaper’s politics editor Patrick Healy told the Washington Post that, in addition to their reporter's detailed notes, "I’d point out that for more than 24 hours after the article was published, Mr. King did not dispute he had made the comment.” This is also not the only time recently that King has run the play of denying he said what he said—and previously, the conservative Weekly Standard had the recording of him calling immigrants “dirt.” Which is just one of many reasons it was so believable that King would defend white supremacy. Steve King’s long history of racist comments speaks for itself. And when King tries to explain why he’s not racist, his fancy footwork and conspiracist language continue to undermine his surface claims. Because he’s a giant bleeding racist, and you can’t talk your way out of that by blaming the media or parsing the meaning of “white nationalist.” Read more