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Rep. Steve King: The White House Served Me ACORN Cookies!
Rachel Slajda | December 9, 2009, 1:40PM
Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA), one of Congress' fiercest crusaders against ACORN, tweets this today:
At the WH Christmas Ball Monday night, they served ACORN cookies
With a link to this picture:
Nutty, eh? Eh?
(H/T Ben Smith)
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ondioline
December 9, 2009 1:58 PM
Nothing wrong with having a little fun at Rep. King's expense... With half the stuff he says, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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datora
December 10, 2009 6:16 AM in reply to ondioline
Would be a nice bit of fun ... IF it did indeed happen. The photo looks like a poor-quality mobile phone camera shot of some cookie on what appears to be a wrinkled-up White House napkin.
Maybe he just stuffed the napkin in his pocket and used it as a prop later, inside or outside the WH ..? The tweet implies King was served, but he uses the passive 'they [the cookies] were served' tense ... maybe "they" who did the serving weren't even WH staff?
Nothing in King's tweet confirms that this is a cookie that he was served. It is all implied for the easily distracted.
Anyone call the WH up and show them this photo & tweet for their confirmation/ denial? Anyone ask King directly to describe exactly how he was served this cookie, exactly when, and who did the serving ..?
All said. It would be an incredible joke and fantastic use of tax dollars, if this is indeed a deliberate prank pulled by the White House. I hope it is, and that they pull a dozen of these each day to drive the nutters into a foaming froth.
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ondioline
December 10, 2009 12:49 PM in reply to datora
Are you suggesting that perhaps a black helicopter delivered this thing to King?
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dumdedumdum
December 9, 2009 2:02 PM
Nonsense, it's the President in a beret.
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ondioline
December 9, 2009 2:10 PM in reply to dumdedumdum
A chocolate-covered raspberry beret, perhaps?
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mass_murdock
December 9, 2009 2:14 PM
I see pixels.
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fsudirectory
December 9, 2009 2:15 PM
If I were the WH I would do stuff like this all the time to get them worked up over nonsense
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Stiggs
December 9, 2009 6:38 PM in reply to fsudirectory
We already know the right is poring over all the WH visitor logs, I'm sure they could have a lot of fun with that. Perhaps start encoding messages into press releases and reports. But you are absolutely correct, if King and company is going to make it so freaking easy the WH should take advantage. Acorn fattened pork and acorn flour dishes at every state dinner, acorn decorations for the fall holidays, analogies about acorns growing into great oak trees in speeches until any reference to plants makes teabaggers foam at the mouth while ranting about community organizing.
Would it be a waste of taxpayer's money to push the already insane to the breaking point, making their lunacy undeniable?
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trevzb
December 9, 2009 7:22 PM in reply to Stiggs
Except sometimes they start shooting people for stuff like that.
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fsudirectory
December 9, 2009 8:48 PM in reply to Stiggs
I think it would be a valid use of taxpayer money.
The money is gonna be spent anyways, why not do something to make it amusing? They are gonna bitch anyways, might as well make what they bitch about sound so stupid they are pushed further into a corner.
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commie atheist
December 9, 2009 2:16 PM
Truly, he is the King of Idiot America.
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wilsunshines
December 9, 2009 2:17 PM
After all, as the famous Christmas song goes, "Acorns roasting on an open fire"...
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CityGuy
December 9, 2009 2:20 PM
Truly a dumbass!
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madmatt
December 9, 2009 2:20 PM
A nut for a nut
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Jeronimo Dan
December 9, 2009 2:23 PM
Least he got an invite, that's more than a lot of people.
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JohnW1141
December 9, 2009 2:24 PM
This is the kind of shit the wingnuts go crazy over. Expect millions of e-mails passing this around.
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jet
December 9, 2009 2:27 PM
Not only that... They have taken over Brooklyn and are indoctrinating our kids:
http://acorntoyshop.com/
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theWalrus
December 9, 2009 2:28 PM
OK, the question is - did he EAT one??!!
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mass_murdock
December 9, 2009 2:29 PM
Come on guys, that's a photoshop! That's not a real cookie!
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ericf
December 9, 2009 3:16 PM in reply to mass_murdock
Glad I'm not the only who wondered if that was fake. Does it say "made in Kenya" on it?
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Rich in NJ
December 9, 2009 2:30 PM
They don't call them wingnuts for nothing.
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Ted
December 9, 2009 2:31 PM
Isn't that a commie beret? Think more hyperbolic next time Stevie!
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Jack of All Tirades
December 9, 2009 2:31 PM
If this actually happened, mad props to the WH!
The fact that this representative even talks about this shows how much time he has on his hands.
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Why oh why
December 9, 2009 2:36 PM
King added: they are out to steal our precious bodily fluids.
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Matt Jones
December 9, 2009 4:06 PM in reply to Why oh why
Get it right - it's "sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids". :)
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free2bme
December 9, 2009 2:43 PM
That is too funny. I guess TeaBag cookies would have been a little inappropriate, but maybe the WH will send them to the Repugnicant's as Xmas gifts.
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dnegri
December 9, 2009 2:43 PM
These Republicans are not only idiots, but they're downright evil in their stupidity.
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draftedin68
December 9, 2009 2:45 PM
It's a perfect likeness of Samuel L. Jackson - plus, he's always showing up in a beret.
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artgurrl
December 9, 2009 2:56 PM
Oh this is way too funny. All the wing nuts have to complain about these days is a cookie given to them by the White House. LMAO, this is rich. If it's true, maybe it's a nice present to go with their tea! LOL.
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Peter Principle
December 9, 2009 2:57 PM
Clearly an attempt to pollute and destroy Rep. King's precious bodily fluids. Those ACORN puppet masters will stop at nothing.
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Msinformed
December 9, 2009 3:08 PM
Sometimes an acorn is just an acorn....
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Dorn76
December 9, 2009 3:09 PM
Novavoter's comment got deleted?
I paraphrase:
"OMG it also looks like a brown person in a Che beanie!"
What's up with that? Someone call abuse? That was funny!
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nova voter
December 9, 2009 6:03 PM in reply to Dorn76
i was wondering what happened.
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Parvus
December 9, 2009 3:15 PM
Damn if that don't look just like Huey Newton.
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An Outhouse
December 9, 2009 3:50 PM
This is probably as true as the anti-terrorist hero fighting off the mad porno viewing terrorists. I've learned not to put too much faith in anything the wingers spout these days.
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Peter Principle
December 9, 2009 3:57 PM
Damn if that don't look just like Huey Newton.
Eat the cookies and feed the poor, Huey Newton knows the score.
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Joe Monster
December 9, 2009 3:58 PM
I'm gratified that one of the biggest assholes in the world has redeemed himself by being an actual joke.
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lindal
December 9, 2009 3:58 PM
He needs to learn how to use "drop shadow" in Photoshop.
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acf_ma
December 9, 2009 4:29 PM
I saw Elvis in a sweet potato once, and there's always the image of the Blessed Mother in a dirty window, so seeing an acorn in a cookie isn't that big a stretch for someone.
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Okey-dokey
December 9, 2009 5:09 PM
King's tweet doesn't say he attended the event at the White House.
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Andreams
December 9, 2009 5:19 PM
Wish they'd served him an ACORN enema.
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JohnW1141
December 9, 2009 5:40 PM
Its Acorn-y Acorn story.
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CVille Dem
December 9, 2009 6:27 PM
Here's a nice cookie for David Vitter:
http://www.coppergifts.com/ProductCart/pc/cg_ProductDetails.asp?idproduct=2241
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wake up
December 9, 2009 8:06 PM
If you look close enough -- oh, and if you're also completely bonkers -- you can see a faint outline of Hitler's profile in that cookie.
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Ethan
December 10, 2009 2:27 AM
Looks tasty!
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Tosh
May 17, 2010 4:55 AM
We already know the right is poring over all the WH visitor logs, I'm sure they could have a lot of fun with that. Perhaps start encoding messages into press releases and reports. But you are absolutely correct, if King and company is going to make it so freaking easy the WH should take advantage. Acorn fattened pork and acorn flour dishes at every state dinner, acorn decorations for the fall holidays, analogies about acorns growing into great oak trees in speeches until any reference to plants makes teabaggers foam at the mouth while ranting about community organizing.
Would it be a waste of taxpayer's money to push the already insane to the breaking point, making their lunacy undeniable?
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