{"id":2441,"date":"2012-08-22T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2012-08-22T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T17:18:56","slug":"rep-steve-king-minority-students-feel-sorry-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/08\/rep-steve-king-minority-students-feel-sorry-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Steve King: Minority Students &#8220;Feel Sorry for Themselves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, trackers from\u00a0the super-PAC\u00a0run by the progressive phone service provider CREDO grabbed footage of King at a town hall meeting in Le Mars lamenting that minority students are falling for a communist victimization narrative promoted by student organizations.<\/p>\n<p>King, who\u00a0recently sponsored a bill to make English the national language, launched into an extended rant on the perils of multiculturalism\u2014which was only reinforced by a visit to Iowa State\u00a0University, where he says he encountered 59 different student groups rooted in the idea. Merlin&#8217;s pants! As he put it, &#8220;It started with\u00a0Asians and it ended with\u00a0Zeitgeist.\u00a0So from A to Z. And most of them were victims groups, victimology, people that feel sorry for themselves. And they&#8217;re out there recruiting our young people to be part of the group that feels sorry for themselves.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ukvj7QA-wU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/08\/rep-steve-king-minority-students-feel-sorry-themselves\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Steve King: Minority Students &#8220;Feel Sorry for Themselves&#8221; | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, trackers from\u00a0the super-PAC\u00a0run by the progressive phone service provider CREDO grabbed footage of King at a town hall meeting in Le Mars lamenting that minority students are falling for a communist victimization narrative promoted by student organizations. King, who\u00a0recently sponsored a bill to make English the national language, launched into an extended rant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[1392,1393,1391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}