Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Paul Ryan: Steve King Comment Doesn’t Reflect What Makes America Special, I Hope He Misspoke
On Fox News earlier tonight, Speaker Paul Ryan reacted to recent comments by Steve King that earned widespread condemnation, including from fellow Republicans:
Ryan told Bret Baier said he certainly disagrees with that statement and he talked about the greatness of the American melting pot and how “the condition of your birth doesn’t determine the outcome of your life” in this country.
“I don’t think,” Ryan added, “that statement reflects what is special about this country. I’d like to think––and I haven’t spoken to Steve about this––I’d like to think that he misspoke and it wasn’t really meant the way that that sounds, and hopefully he’s clarified that.”
On CNN this morning, King said, “I meant exactly what I said.”
https://soundcloud.com/user-488995707/steve-king-1King: Hispanic, Black People Will Turn On Each Other Before Outnumbering Whites
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), of newfound "somebody else's babies" infamy, said on Monday that black and Hispanic populations "will be fighting each other" before outnumbering the population of white people in the United States.
"They're dividing people, they're pitting people against each other," King said on WHO radio's "The Jan Mickelson Show" in Des Moines.
King referred to Univision anchor Jorge Ramos' remark on Fox News that "the white population will become a minority." Ramos used the point to argue that the United States is a multiracial country.
"Jorge Ramos' stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race," King said. "Race and ethnicity, I should say, to be more correct."
He said that "accentuating the differences" will result in "people that are at each other's throats."
"And he's adding up Hispanics and blacks into what he predicts will be in greater number than whites in America," King said. "I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens."
King tweeted on Sunday that "civilization" cannot be restored "with somebody else's babies." On Monday morning he doubled down on his comments, saying that he "meant exactly what I said" in the post.
Asked by WHO's Jan Mickelson if there was anything about his tweets that he would change, King said: "Not at all."
"If I were going to change anything, first of all, there’s only 140 characters. So I really don’t know why people hyperventilate over a tweet," King told the "Breitbart News Daily" radio show on Tuesday.
He suggested that people who reacted to his tweet with outrage were “willfully ignorant.”
“If I had room to add on I would say, you can’t rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies unless you adopt them and bring them into your homes and raise them as your own," King said.
He said he is a "strong supporter" of Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim Dutch politician with whom King has previously associated himself and who he also cited in the original post.
"They are supplanting Western civilization with Middle Eastern civilization," King said. "And I say, and Geert Wilders says, Western civilization is a superior civilization. It is the first world."
There’s a reason for the GOP reticence about criticizing this sentiment from King: The GOP is now Donald Trump’s party. King’s statement is, at bottom, a particularly explicit expression of the white nationalist ideology that fueled the Trump campaign — and shaped the worldview of top Trump advisers Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller. Advocates for that ideology are now directing strategy and policy from the West Wing.
Such statements are nothing new for the eight-term congressman from Iowa, and under questioning this morning on CNN, King refused to back down from his tweet. King defended himself today by claiming to be a “champion for Western civilization.”
Bannon views the world through a similar frame. He is known to admire the anti-immigrant, Islamophobic European far right (which, of course, includes figures like Wilders), as a bulwark against what he frames as a civilizational war against the West. King has long been a hero to Bannon for his anti-immigrant, anti-refugee views.
Indeed, Bannon’s and King’s shared view that Western civilization is under threat by immigration and refugees dates back to before either man got on the Trump train. King’s positions have been given prominent, laudatory treatment at the Bannon-run Breitbart, with the site frequently featuring his writing or interviews with him as “exclusives” to plug his opposition to immigration and refugee resettlement, and his anti-GOP establishment stances.
And we’ve unearthed an old interview that Bannon conducted with King that is newly relevant in the wake of King’s tweet.
In the November 2015 interview on the Breitbart News Daily radio program, which Bannon hosted until joining Trump’s campaign, King and Bannon discussed a measure pending in Congress at the time that would have defunded the Syrian refugee resettlement program. Bannon sided with King against House Speaker Paul Ryan, who, at the time, had questioned the plan to defund refugee programs because “that’s not who we are.”
King’s reaction in the interview was virtually identical to his new incendiary comments. “We should not be a suicidal nation,” he told Bannon. He had just returned from the Middle East and Europe to investigate the refugee crisis, he said, and he characterized the influx of refugees into Europe as “the end of their [Europeans’] culture and civilization.” He criticized Europeans for welcoming refugees, claiming of the Europeans that “by contraception and abortion” they do not “have enough babies to reproduce themselves.”
These Europeans, King maintained, then “define survival of their country as replacing themselves with people who do not share their values.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the Breitbart chief praised King as “a great mentor to all of us and a great friend of the site, and a true warrior.”
Back to that 2015 Bannon-King interview. In it, King said: “It’s not enough to only address the Syrian situation. There are many other countries that produce terrorists. We need to put all those terrorist breeding grounds into our list of moratoriums.”
Bannon jumped in approvingly: “And defund it all.”
In the context of his discussion with King, it seems he was thinking of defunding refugee resettlement not just for Syrians but for refugees from other countries as well. Viewed in retrospect, perhaps this forecasted the idea around which Trump would shape his travel ban — one that casts refugees from certain countries as a cultural and demographic threat to the west.
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/841689470797778944stringer bell;c-9684617 said:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-king-hispanic-black-people-turn-on-each-other-before-outnumbering-whites
https://soundcloud.com/user-488995707/steve-king-1King: Hispanic, Black People Will Turn On Each Other Before Outnumbering Whites
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), of newfound "somebody else's babies" infamy, said on Monday that black and Hispanic populations "will be fighting each other" before outnumbering the population of white people in the United States.
"They're dividing people, they're pitting people against each other," King said on WHO radio's "The Jan Mickelson Show" in Des Moines.
King referred to Univision anchor Jorge Ramos' remark on Fox News that "the white population will become a minority." Ramos used the point to argue that the United States is a multiracial country.
"Jorge Ramos' stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race," King said. "Race and ethnicity, I should say, to be more correct."
He said that "accentuating the differences" will result in "people that are at each other's throats."
"And he's adding up Hispanics and blacks into what he predicts will be in greater number than whites in America," King said. "I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens."
King tweeted on Sunday that "civilization" cannot be restored "with somebody else's babies." On Monday morning he doubled down on his comments, saying that he "meant exactly what I said" in the post.
Asked by WHO's Jan Mickelson if there was anything about his tweets that he would change, King said: "Not at all."
"If I were going to change anything, first of all, there’s only 140 characters. So I really don’t know why people hyperventilate over a tweet," King told the "Breitbart News Daily" radio show on Tuesday.
He suggested that people who reacted to his tweet with outrage were “willfully ignorant.”
“If I had room to add on I would say, you can’t rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies unless you adopt them and bring them into your homes and raise them as your own," King said.
He said he is a "strong supporter" of Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim Dutch politician with whom King has previously associated himself and who he also cited in the original post.
"They are supplanting Western civilization with Middle Eastern civilization," King said. "And I say, and Geert Wilders says, Western civilization is a superior civilization. It is the first world."
Copper;c-9684723 said:"You can't build a nation with someone else's babies"
Says the country that literally stole people to build a nation
Copper;c-9684723 said:"You can't build a nation with someone else's babies"
Says the country that literally stole people to build a nation
Cuomo then argued that America is not about "white or you're not right," at which point King said, "Well, actually, if you go down the road a few generations or maybe centuries with the inter-marriage, I'd like to see an America that's so homogenous that we look a lot the same from that perspective. I think there's far too much focus on race, especially in the last eight years. I want to see that put behind us."