Rep. Steve King (R-IA) tweeted a cartoon on Monday that depicted President Obama wearing a turban while speaking about the Crusades at the National Prayer Breakfast last week.
“When you say our country must never forget, are you referring to 9-11?” a speech bubble in the cartoon asked.
“No. The Crusades,” Obama answered.
The cartoon showed Obama in similar garb as a photo of him during a visit to Kenya that was circulated during his run for president against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2008.
The artist is Glenn McCoy, whose cartoon was also posted on TownHall.com on Thursday. McCoy is one of two cartoonist brothers (self-dubbed “The Flying McCoys“), both of whom have a tendency to sketch comics featuring dodgy racial content.
McCoy’s brother Gary McCoy stoked outrage in August when a Missouri paper ran his cartoon depicting black protestors in Ferguson, Mo. as screaming looters.
Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday enraged conservatives, many who said the President slandered Christians by comparing the religious violence of the Crusades and slavery to the Islamic State terror group.
King’s tweet remained online as of Monday afternoon.
The crusades never happened.
And you thought George Santayana was speaking metaphorically.
Yep, I’m sure Obama’s forgotten all about 9/11 since that time he put a bullet in the brain of the asshole who masterminded the attacks, a man his predecessor stopped thinking about and was unable to catch for over a decade. Still, I give Steve King a pass. For a man of his intellect, talking about one thing necessarily precludes one of thinking about another. Poor thing.
Has Reince Priebus heard about this yet? I know how seriously he takes his job policing offensive political comments on twitter. MSNBC interns have been fired for less… Or have we reached the point where MSNBC interns are held to higher professional standards than Republican leaders?
I love the fact that Obama is making the loons’ heads explode. Keep up the good work, Mr. President!
Duh, that’s been the case for more than a decade.
King is a racist asshole. Torture and death have been dealt in the name of Christ through this very day, you don’t need to go so far back to see evil in the name of christianity.