In a lengthy speech on the House floor today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) declared that President Obama is "the star of ACORN, the lead, chief organizer."
Railing against ACORN, King mentioned Obama's comment on Sunday that he hasn't paid much attention to the scandal.
"Really, Mr. President?" King said, revealing the poster of Obama you see at left.
"He's not interested in ACORN? He's ambivalent about it?" King asked. "Curious."
King went on about Obama's involvement with the housing group, saying it was part of the "genesis" of Obama's political life. "He walks with them all the way through."
He then called on every committee in the House to investigate ACORN. The Justice Department's "lame little announcement" that it will investigate the group isn't enough, he said.
Lest you forget, yesterday King claimed that gay marriage is but a first step on the path to socialism.
(That poster looks familiar, but we're having trouble putting our finger on it. Anyone know where it's from?)
Late update: TPMDC's Eric Kleefeld finds the poster. It was a National Review cover in March, with the headline "Our Socialist Future."

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Prudy
September 24, 2009 3:45 PM
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Chris
September 25, 2009 9:32 AM in reply to Prudy
Could anyone possibly imagine if a Democratic Member of Congress had treated our Great war time Leader George Bush this way????
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Dorn76
September 24, 2009 3:56 PM
Fucking cretin.
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ohyeathatsright
September 24, 2009 3:57 PM
Wow, I don't know where the poster came from... But it's pretty sexy. When that socialist amendment passes, can I go gay for Obama?
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Metzengerstein
September 24, 2009 4:08 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
Man, you beat me to it (comment-wise), but on the other hand, I don't have to wait for any legislation. I mean, I knew the Prez was fine, but that poster makes him look really HOT.
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Prudy
September 24, 2009 3:59 PM
Yes! And as irony and luck would have it, you can get married in King's home state of IOWA!!!
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Willow
September 24, 2009 3:59 PM
I've seen that poster before, but can't remember where. Is it supposed to be scary? Cause all I'm seeing is Obama looking all hot and buff standing in front of a cool-looking wind farm.
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Shii
September 24, 2009 4:05 PM
I followed the election pretty closely on TPM but I never saw that poster before
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tweakyd
September 24, 2009 4:06 PM
Goddam those socialists are cut from stone and splendidly handsome
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nancydenis
September 24, 2009 4:07 PM
And I thought Minnesota's Bachman (sp?) was the craziest person in the house.... Is there something in the water at the House Conservative Caucus?
On a more serious note... We laugh at these crazy members of congress but let's think about who elected them and what they are doing to society? How are they raising their children? Can the cycle be broken?
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Metzengerstein
September 24, 2009 4:10 PM
Any source for the poster? I've gotta have one. Maybe I will contact King's office. I don't live in his district, but I still have to be embarrassed by him being from Iowa. It's the least he could do.
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docrocktex
September 24, 2009 4:11 PM
sometimes free speech is intolerable
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Matt Jones
September 24, 2009 4:17 PM
These guys aren't leaving themselves a lot of room - where are they going to go (in terms of crazee) after Obama's been in office for another year? Will the Faux News headlines read, "Obama wants to eat your white baby"?
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CT Voter
September 24, 2009 4:21 PM in reply to Matt Jones
I was pretty steamed over the failure to get something done wrt HRC before the August recess, but it worked out that the Republicans went through a whole stack of crazy during that recess, and what do they have left to bleat about?
Same thing with Obama. First the birthers, then the deathers, now the ACORN ACORN ACORNers...they're blowing through that supply of crazy at a pretty good clip.
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GOPhuckYourself
September 24, 2009 5:49 PM in reply to CT Voter
Same thing with Obama. First the birthers, then the deathers, now the ACORN ACORN ACORNers...they're blowing through that supply of crazy at a pretty good clip.
First the birthers, then the deathers, now the nutters.
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Cheryl44
September 24, 2009 4:21 PM in reply to Matt Jones
I think they've already used the eating white babies meme.
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CT Voter
September 24, 2009 4:19 PM
Railing against ACORN, King mentioned Obama's comment on Sunday that he hasn't paid much attention to the scandal.
"Really, Mr. President?" King said, revealing the poster of Obama you see at left.
So he's essentially accusing President Obama of lying?
Each time I think Republicans have reached the limits of their debasing of their party, they prove me wrong.
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writergal
September 24, 2009 4:21 PM
I totally want a tshirt and poster! Hot Obama w/ wind farm and American flag! Maybe I'll call/fax rep King to see if there are extras.
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converse
September 24, 2009 4:21 PM
During his brief stint as a community organizer, Obama was part of a professional organizing group that, for the most part, considered ACORN to be an unprofessional, bottom-feeding, slave-wage-paying, opportunistic organization.
Obama never worked for ACORN, and I'm certain he never considered himself to be the "star" or chief organizer of that mess. That poster is just a typical ACORN effort to trade on someone else's popularity.
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converse
September 24, 2009 4:26 PM in reply to converse
Just saw the update. National Review says it all.
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Subliminability
September 24, 2009 4:22 PM
What a nauseating creep. How profoundly un-Iowan, too.
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pseudonymous in nc
September 24, 2009 4:24 PM
Steve King = crazy racist bastard. Now that Tancredo's out of Congress, he has to do two racists' work. It's a good job he looks just like him.
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superking
September 24, 2009 4:37 PM
video?
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Clavis
September 24, 2009 4:40 PM
Rep. King has never once denied that he is the founder of NAMBLA. He in fact has done everything but admit that he secretly runs that organization. I think it's fair to say that Rep. King owes his political career to NAMBLA. And I think it's about time that Rep. King's association with NAMBLA be exposed and identified, for the sake of all our children.
Since King has, as of this date, not formally denied any such involvement, I think we can safely assume that he is the NAMBLA President and Chief Recruiter / Boy Scout.
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Dean L. Surkin
September 24, 2009 4:43 PM
Do I understand this correctly? The National Review decided to put an acorn on Obama's shirt (a subliminal dig against ACORN, of course), and King thinks this means that ACORN or Obama's staff created this poster? So King argues that this means Obama must be involved in ACORN?
This is beyond bad logic, beyond any kind of thought process I've ever seen. I can only conclude that either King is completely ignorant as to the origin of the poster or he is deliberately lying. If the former, he displays a lack of concern about facts, an intellectual laziness that should make his constitutes question what value he has as their representative. If the latter, he is simply a reprehensible person, behaving as if the end justifies the means.
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Prudy
September 24, 2009 4:49 PM
Maybe he just hates acorn (s) because his is so small?
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draftedin68
September 24, 2009 4:50 PM
If it's on the web, it's gotta be true!
I was watching Herr King on CSPAN this morning and I was struck by how remarkably similar his rants are to batshit babblin' Beck.
Besides pulling facts die-rectally from his ass, he used a web site as proof (proof I tell you!) of his guilt-by-association assertions.
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GreenLaker
September 24, 2009 5:00 PM
racism, anyone?
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ejg3
September 24, 2009 5:00 PM
King is winning the guano loco contest with Bachmann big time the past two days. King has little to lose in his own District which is overwhelmingly Republican. His big push use to be immigrant bashing but it looks like he is expanding. his official web page is much more hostile to the President and Democrats in general than either of the two other Iowa Republicans now in Congress (Senator Grassley and Congressman Latham). Obama's original work in Chicago was paid for largely by a coalition of Catholic parishes on the South Side seeking to expand their efforts to include a larger community.
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pseudonymous in nc
September 24, 2009 5:29 PM in reply to ejg3
Tom Harkin used to represent that district. What happened? Redistricting?
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Metzengerstein
September 24, 2009 5:48 PM in reply to pseudonymous in nc
Tom Harkin is in the Senate, since 1984. But yes, that large, western-Iowa district was the product of the last redistricting. It is mostly small towns except Sioux City and Council Bluffs, probably the most conservative in Iowa, which is saying quite a lot.
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JEP07
September 24, 2009 8:13 PM in reply to Metzengerstein
King stands to lose his seat if his district lost population.
Iowa AND Minnesota both may face a loss of one congressional seat, not due to the will of the voters but due to the NUMBER of voters, soon to be revealed in census figures about to be tallied.
When all the numbers are counted, it may take their precious seats away. With Democrats holding the gavel in both state legislatures, any redistricting the census might spark could rutn more than one purple area blue.
Is it any wonder they want to vilify the census? It really IS their boogeyman.
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Metzengerstein
September 25, 2009 11:57 AM in reply to JEP07
I'm afraid it's not that simple though. Yes, it's true that Iowa will lose a seat, short of maybe 3 million people moving here by April 1 of next year, which would double the population. But it doesn't just depend on a particular district gaining or losing population; all the districts in the state are subject to being redrawn based on the new apportionment and population figures. It also won't happen until after the 2010 midterms. So it means that some two of the current five guys will be forced to run against each other, unless someone chooses to retire.
And having Democrats in control of the legislature and governorship, assuming it remains that way after 2010, isn't as much of a big deal as it might seem. Iowa congressional redistricting law prescribes the uses a GIS algorithm overseen by a nonpartisan staff to draw the district lines in a more "compact" and "logical" manner -- no seahorses, split counties, etc. My guess is that we will be stuck with King well beyond 2012.
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HawkeyeD
September 24, 2009 5:22 PM
I remember Andy Kaufman and thought he was really good at this kind of shtick. I'd think King would know about nuts.
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ru4862
September 24, 2009 5:53 PM
King is a dumb ass. He has never liked Obama. In 2007 he accused then candidate Obama of being a secret Muslim, i mean, the guy is clearly a bigot.
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realist
September 24, 2009 5:58 PM
Obama: Rep. King Is 'The Star of CORN'
Lots there in Iowa.
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lcdrrek
September 24, 2009 6:05 PM
The people of the 5th Congressional District in Iowa must be so proud of this asshat.
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Metzengerstein
September 25, 2009 5:45 PM in reply to lcdrrek
Sad to say, a lot of them are.
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wake up
September 24, 2009 6:48 PM
As another, far more amusing flim flam man once said, "You gotta know the territory." Unless he has a political deathwish, Rep. King must have reason to think that 51% or more of his district will buy what he's selling.
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mk3872
September 24, 2009 7:11 PM
What the H3LL was that? Are these people for real?
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OceanDog
September 24, 2009 7:12 PM
Lucky us, we have Grassley and King spewing their particular brand of BS all over the place on a regular rotation... And to think this state turned blue in November, even with King's crap that terrorists around the world would celebrate in the streets if Obama won the election.
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wake up
September 24, 2009 9:02 PM
I try to keep in mind that by 2010 there will be 8 million or so new voters, who are young, and 8 million or so fewer older voters, than there were in 2008. No disrespect to the good folk in that age bracket, but as a group older people are much more likely to buy this brand of hooey. Congressman King is pinning his hopes on a cavalry that is riding off into the sunset.
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henk
September 24, 2009 9:19 PM
Well I hope he calms down enough so that Dems can negotiate with him on Health Care. Bipartisanship don't you know.
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henk
September 24, 2009 9:36 PM
Seriously, though, these guys are working hard to delegitimize Obama. The birthers, the tenthers, the teabaggers and the rest are all working up to impeaching Obama. They're going to see how far they can ride the ACORN thing, if it doesn't pan out, they'll gin up another "scandal" and another until they find one that works. It may sound far fetched but they are pretty well oganize,the UN speech was a great example of wingnuts working together. It was almost scary how similar all the complaints were. Its all just part of the game, chip away, a little here and a little there. And they have the press playing along as well. They may sound nuts, but there is a method to their madness.
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wake up
September 24, 2009 11:15 PM in reply to henk
There is a method to their madness, but there is also just a lot of madness out there. The masters are pulling the strings, but the puppets are willing to dance.
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
September 25, 2009 7:05 AM in reply to henk
Republicans would work this way no matter which Democrat they were dealing with. If it was Hillary - would have been the same thing. With Kerry - swiftboat. And don't get me started on what they did to Gore.
This is the Republican Party. This is all they have. They would probably do the same thing to Eisenhower were he to run today,
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psyclone
September 24, 2009 11:25 PM
What a fucking clown.
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VictorLaszlo
September 25, 2009 2:02 AM
Wind farms are part of the Red Menace. Gasoline and coal were good enough for my granddaddy, and they're good enough for me.
Why does Obama insist on spitting in my granddaddy's face with his so-called "alternative energy sources?"
Commie.
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