Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) campaign blocked the Des Moines Register, a prominent Iowa newspaper, from covering an election night event in northwest Iowa on Tuesday night, the newspaper reported.
“We are not granting credentials to the Des Moines Register or any other leftist propaganda media outlet with no concern for reporting the truth,” King’s son, Jeff King, who works on the congressman’s campaign staff, told the newspaper when it requested press credentials for the event.
“The Des Moines Register will continue doing everything in its power to cover Rep. King fairly,”the paper’s Executive Editor Carol Hunter said in a statement to the Register. “This decision is unfortunate because it not only shuts out the Des Moines Register reporter, but also the people of Iowa.”
King, who is running for his ninth term in Congress, is facing Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten. The outspoken conservative — who is no stranger to whipping up controversy over his far-right allegiances — has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks for making racist and homophobic comments.
However, only some of King’s most recent have his remarks pushed some of his Republican colleagues to denounce his behavior.
Well, maybe your headquarters isn’t where the story’s going to be tonight anyway, asshole.
I guess this means no corn dogs for Des Moines Register reporters…DANG!
Welcome to Trump’s USA. Where the press is not only the “enemy of the people”, but representatives who took an oath to protect the Constitution go against the Constitution by barring the free press from covering an event. Totalitarianism is just around the corner. VOTE NOW
So King just proved that what he says and does is so wrong it can’t stand the light of day.
Truth hurts, doesn’t it?
The paper will get the story and hopefully King will loose this battle and the election.
Fascism, thy face is Steve King.