King Duped Into Tweeting Earnest Praise For Col. Jessup From ‘A Few Good Men’

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 201... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on 'Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) spent his Fourth of July getting duped on Twitter, first retweeting Ken Klippenstein of the web series “Young Turks” and earnestly praising Klippenstein’s “uncle” — actually Jack Nicholson’s character in “A Few Good Men.”

King has since deleted the retweet, as Klippenstein changed his Twitter handle to “Steve King is a white supremacist” after the congressman retweeted him.

King was burned by the Twitter name change once more on the holiday, retweeting someone who changed their handle to “Steve King drinks pee pee.” As of early Friday morning, the tweet is still on King’s timeline.

The wild world of Twitter is a hard one to navigate — looks like King just can’t handle the truth.

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  1. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, call me Steve King.

  2. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    Further evidence that not only can King " not handle the truth" … if encountering it … it will bite King in the ass!

  3. The wild world of Twitter is a hard one to navigate …
    for old idiot white geezers

  4. Stupid? Or just senile?

  5. Ames and Mason City, surely you can find a cornstalk smarter than King to represent you.

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