# Rep. Steve King, the disgrrace of the Hawkeye State (Iowa) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676 "2019-08-14T21:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/41 "2019-08-18T18:10:32Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Steve King isn’t the disgrace of the Hawkeye State; he’s just their Representative.](https://apnews.com/2d5bd2ec9e824cd4b002e5fa73ae4825)There’s a lot more backing up the view that this prolly won’t have any real negative effect on King’s support at the polls, too. I dunno. In the Stupid Republican Idea of the Day thread, it was noted that his last town hall meeting was [sparsely attended](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/white-nationalist-republican-ridiculed-after-only-2-people-show-up-for-his-town-hall-meeting/?fbclid=IwAR1dVqVAMrA76hlzn6lasmcYOV6JE_2jRFGYLH-n48JqiGdumcVNpE5vcfo). ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/42 "2019-08-18T22:45:22Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I actually appreciate the accidental(?) typo in the thread title because it made me think of [Thurl Ravenscroft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft) — and “the disgrrrrrrACE of the Hawkeye State” has a certain ring to it. I heard Tony the Tiger. And now that I’ve actually looked at **OdF’s** link I see they’re of course the same guy. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/43 "2019-08-20T00:04:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Tar? I thought that was North Carolina. Yep, we have plenty of our own [racists](https://twitter.com/newsobserver/status/1144753015968161793?lang=en), [bigots](http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2016/04/20/in-rant-against-virginia-court-ruling-phil-berger-admits-what-hb-2-is-really-about/), and [misogynists](https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article220557210.html) in the Tar Heel State. I think you have to reach back [this far](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms) to find a North Carolina politician as vile as Steve King though. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/44 "2019-08-20T01:00:42Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I think you have to reach back [this far](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms) to find a North Carolina politician as vile as Steve King though. That’s not reaching back very far. My daughter met him when her middle school class visited the senate (even tho we’re from WI, not NC). She thought he was creepy. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/45 "2019-08-20T23:19:50Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’m forced to conclude that King wants to fuck/rape his sister and/or mother. > > CMC fnord! Well, how else do you expect the human population to keep growing? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/46 "2019-08-21T00:10:23Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > That’s not reaching back very far. My daughter met him when her middle school class visited the senate (even tho we’re from WI, not NC). She thought he was creepy. Some of his nastiest stuff happened before I gained an interest in politics…but yeah, he always seemed creepy to me too, especially with the amount of ‘hero worship’ that still seems to surround him. I’ve heard people repeat the [apparently apocryphal] tale of Helms’ definition of “UNC” with great pride and amusement. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/47 "2019-08-27T21:50:54Z")
[And he’s at it again!](https://news.yahoo.com/steve-king-says-muslims-should-be-forced-to-eat-pork-204432765.html) Yeah, right. Let’s treat our minorities the way China treats theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/48 "2019-08-28T15:19:43Z")
Didn’t Trump suggest shooting Muslims with bullets dipped in pork grease? These assholes don’t just want dead Muslims, they want _humiliated_ dead Muslims who can’t get into Muslim heaven. They seem nice. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676/49 "2019-08-28T18:42:03Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Didn’t Trump suggest shooting Muslims with bullets dipped in pork grease? These assholes don’t just want dead Muslims, they want _humiliated_ dead Muslims who can’t get into Muslim heaven. > > They seem nice. No, you’re misremembering quite a bit. He favorably recounted a story (a debunked urban legend) that John Pershing rounded up 50 Muslim rebels in the Philippines during WWI, dipped bullets in pig’s blood, then executed 49 of them to let the 50th one spread the tale. > **[Trump recounts Pershing urban legend, seemingly endorsing mass executions](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/trump-appears-to-endorse-executing-terrorists-citing-questionable-history)** > > At his final rally in South Carolina Donald Trump invoked the story of a WWI general, alleged to have executed 50 muslim terrorists, as a modern lesson It was pig’s blood, not grease, and he didn’t suggest actually doing it, but rather used the story as a parable to show how humiliation can act as a deterrent to terrorists. Regardless, it was still moronic. He was citing something that never really happened (which he does frequently, the truth doesn’t matter if it supports your message). He was endorsing something that would have been a wartime atrocity if it had actually happened. His story was a disgrace to the reputation of Pershing. Despicable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-steve-king-the-disgrrace-of-the-hawkeye-state-iowa/838676.md?page=2)