“Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he stands by his remarks to an Iowa radio station last week that a Barack Obama presidency would be seen as a win for al-Qaeda and other Muslim extremists, ‘I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name — whatever their religion their father might have been,’ King told KICD radio in Spencer, Iowa on Friday, March 7. ‘I’ll just say this: When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States — I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?’ … ‘The fact that he has declared defeat in Iraq and said he would get the troops out immediately — that clearly sends a message. Who do you think al Qaeda is for? Who are our enemies for? Who are the radical Islamics for? It’s going to be Obama first, Hillary second, because they don’t want to face a United States that’s determined to achieve a victory.’ On the radio last week, King also said of Obama: ‘If he is elected president, then the, the radical Islamists, the, the al Qaeda, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11.'”

And he is being pressured to apologize, and he says, “I’m not going to apologize for this. It’s true!”

His point is, and if you listen to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if you listen to any of the Al-Qaeda figures from overseas, they’re using Democrat Party talking points. They have involved themselves in our election.

What do you think Al-Qaeda is doing? What do you think these wacko little dictators in some of these Islamist countries have been doing? They have been openly urging the defeat of the US military just as been the Democrat Party. To say they don’t have a vested interest in who wins the White House, that’s all Steve King is pointing out. So there’s a lot of pressure on people these days not to say things and it’s coming from everywhere. McCain’s got his talking points to supporters and his surrogates and his staff, say, “You can’t say anything but this.” And now Geraldine Ferraro cannot say what she said. Stupid, incorrect, correct, she can’t say it, she gotta go. Pretty soon we’re going to get to the point where people are going to sneak into the bathrooms of their houses to say what they really want to say to each other without fear of somebody hearing it and being offended and trying to punish them for it.

I know they do that now. It’s getting worse.

These are the kinds of losses of freedom and liberty that happen so slowly, and apparently under the auspices of doing good. We’re going to shut you up and you up and you up because you’re offending people and it will be a much better world when people aren’t offended by the likes of what you say. And of course then that leads to what, fear. Nobody wants to be targeted, nobody wants to called racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, and so they shut up. They don’t tell people what they really think, other than close family members and friends in private locations where they are assured there are no cameras or microphones around.

Now, Representative King said he’s sticking to his refusal to apologize. “I don’t feel any need to apologize,” he said. “I stand by what I said. If I’m wrong, I’ll apologize. I’m not wrong and (critics) know it. I’d like to have them stand up and say if they’re wrong, they’ll apologize.”

This is the way to fight this stuff, to not go on defense, but to stay on offense about it. The idea that we can only say what certain people agree with — or that if we say things they disagree with we have to apologize and then shut up…

— is just absurd.