Anybody else see Steve King become the butt of the joke on

[progressoid]

The Daily Show? Gosh I feel great that he's my rep. What a dumbass.

[Melodybe]

1. Is he the one from NY?

If so that is the asshole that was talking about "counting the votes" in front of the White House.

I wish that the Daily Show would air that segment from Diaries of a Political Tourist.

Then again I wish they would cover the voter fraud, oh well, I still love them.

[aquart]

2. Pete King is Republican Rep from Long Island.

[rurallib]

3. Yeah

Turned to my wife and told her King was from western Iowa. 'Kind of embarrassing', she said. "Shows what's happened to education in Iowa" says I. Remember when people used to hold Iowa up as the example of hard work, intelligence and fairness?

[IA_Seth]

4. What was the joke? n/t

[progressoid]

6. King was trying talking about the the intelligence bill

You can see it here. Click on the "The 9/11 reform bill finally passed, and only three years after Congress took on Freedom Fries."

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/

Went roughly like this...

Stewart: Another congressman (King) noted that what was really needed was business cliches.

King: "The history of success in intelligence in America and throughout all of history has been non-linear thinking, creative out of the box people who broke the mold and got into the minds of the people they were up against. They were outside the box thinkers that flew those planes into us on Sept 11th..."

Stewart: Yes, the 9/11 hijackers were outside the box thinkers. Because they were adherents of not only the Koran, but of 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists'

[kariatari]

5. Indeed.

I hate that man with every ounce of my being.

[Hobarticus]

7. Only good thing to come out of western Iowa is I-80...

With apologies to my western IA DUers, natch.

:)

[HuskiesHowls]

8. Love those long rolling hills there....

used to play bumper tag with the semis at about 120mph when I was younger!!

[Counciltucky]

9. Steve King's not the butt of a joke.

Steve King IS a joke.