Steve King Gives Donald Trump His Undying Gratitude
I give Chris Hayes a lot of credit for at least trying to get some honesty out of Steve King, but let's be honest. This is a guy who lives in a white hood when he's not in public. He has no use for anyone who isn't lily-white.
Hayes' first attempt was to ask King if it would be "toxic political correctness" if someone suggested that we ban Jews. King parried, saying it might be warranted if Jews were killing people in the name of their religion.
"But as far as I know," King continued, "There's only one religion that's doing that. The religion of Islam that's doing that."
Hayes tried again, raising today's news about Robert Dear claiming to be a "warrior for the babies," who clearly was influenced by the Christian religion. "That man is a Christian, he's an avowed Christian and he appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence."
Once again, King ducked, but this time he was just so off the reservation it was ridiculous.
"Well, I don't think that he's following Jesus' teachings," King averred.
Hayes shot back, "He says he's a Christian."
"But that's not Jesus' teachings," King replied. "Jesus didn't teach people to kill."
Hayes zeroed in for the point, reminding King that Muslims have been saying the very same thing about Islam, that it doesn't teach people to kill or engage in violence or destruction.
King answered with the vague notion that Mohammed hurt people and Jesus didn't, so there's no equivalence there.