In one ear, out the other.

[kpete]

What makes this interview of Rep. Steve King (R-IA) by MSNBC's Chris Hayes so fascinating is King's complete compartmentalization of his beliefs and his obvious bigotry. Steve King believes Muslims are violent and bad; Steve King believes Christians like himself are peaceful and good. There's no bit of reality you can throw at him that will shake these beliefs. You could put him in the center of a Planned Parenthood during a shooting or task him with evacuating the crowd after the Atlanta Olympics bombing and you wouldn't get any different response.

He is the perfect example of this new flavor of conservative that deems material fact to be entirely irrelevant to the ideology. Whether a particular videotape is true or false is unimportant; it is only valued on whether it furthers the desired message. If the collective evidence gathered from the entire rational world proves that the sitting president is indeed an American citizen, it is evidence only of the depth of the conspiratorial attempt to cover up the still-held belief that he is not. Rep. Steve King has the mind of a not very bright dog. He knows what he knows, and to hell with the rest of it.

Steve King has declared that Muslims are bad and a threat. Christians are not. And so, according to Rep. Steve King, that is that.

HAYES: Congressman, let me just stop you right there. Congressman, there was a man named Robert Dear who in court today said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado. That man is a Christian, he’s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.

KING: I don't think that he's following Jesus' teachings --

HAYES: But who are you to say? He says he's a Christian.

KING: That's what he says, all right. But that's not Jesus' teachings. Jesus didn’t teach people to kill.

HAYES: But you’re doing the exact same thing that every Muslim I’ve seen on air says do in the wake of what happened in San Bernardino. They say they weren’t following actual Islam. Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction, right?

I mean, why is this any different? You understandably as a Christian are someone of the faith, right? You look at what happened at Planned Parenthood, you said that's not the faith that I believe in. Millions and billions --

KING: What Planned Parenthood is doing is not the faith that I believe in, but Jesus never ordered anyone to be killed and he never raised his hand to injure anyone specifically. But Mohammed did, and there is a big difference in this. And so they’re carrying on the traditions that are centuries old --

OMG, more:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep.-steve-king-on-islamophobia-583276099760

[Frustratedlady]

1. In one ear and out the other?

That happens rather easily, as there is nothing in between.

[tazkcmo]

2. I see it here everyday. n/t