Thursday, June 22, 2006

Thomas Insulted By GOPer

from Sploid

"An Iowa republican has apologized for insulting a senior White House correspondent during his stand-up routine on the campaign trail. He seems to think the woman is uglier than a virgin in hell.

Congressman Steve King, was throwing scraps of red meat rhetoric to a group of GOP convention delegates on Wednesday, when he began talking about the recently staged death of imaginary terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

"(Zarqawi) was always looking for another way to go to a deeper depth, and now I'll contend that's where he is today," King said. "And what occurred to me that morning is something that I imagine a lot of you have thought about and he's probably figured it out by now. There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell he's at and if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas."

The partisan crowd roared its approval, showering the pol with laughter and applause. But King's opponent, Joyce Schulte, wasn't laughing.

"I found (his comments) to be derogatory and insulting and less than what I would expect from a congressperson," Schulte says.

And it's not just Schulte who was furious. The Arab American Institute also demanded an apology from the congressman.

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