Steve King... or Stephen Colbert

In a recent "Stop Amnesty" rally that was sponsored by the Tea Party, a Republican representative from Iowa, Steve King, made some pretty big accusations, extremely ignorant accusations. You know, sometimes I wonder just how certain people make it into office; as the great J. Cole said, "Who you have to kill, who you have to rob, who you have to fuck, just to make it to the top dammit?" Rep. King claims that the further South in Latin America one goes, the more increasingly violent the civilizations get. Now it is beyond me how a Congressman from Iowa could possibly know such things, so I decided to do a little more research into the man with all the answers. In a July 18 interview with Newsmax, King claimed that for every child that is the valedictorian of an illegal immigrant, there are one hundred who are smuggling drugs. This comes in response to his nay vote to the DREAM Act, which proposes people between the ages of 12 and 35 who came to the United States aged 15 and younger and meet a list of qualifications, as such obtaining a high school degree and having “good moral character,” can eventually become citizens. Supposing King's assessment is correct, if there were say, 10 valedictorians that were made citizens by the DREAM Act, there would be 1,000 that were smuggling drugs across the border...very plausible analysis Steve. With the DREAM Act potentially paving way for citizenship for around 2 million people, roughly split down the middle between men and women, and if 1,000, 1/20th of a percent, were valedictorians, then 100,000 would be drug smugglers (1/10 of the men).  Not only does he lack comprehension of basic argumentative reasoning, but he also claims that there is only one valedictorian per class, which is false considering many schools have begun to award the prestigious title to sometimes more than 100 at some schools. But to add to his lack of common knowledge and understanding, he was quoted during an Iowa town hall meeting denouncing Global Warming and environmentalism saying that sea level isn't an exact measurement. Really? King claims, ""We don't know where sea level is even, let alone be able to say that it's going to come up an inch globally because some polar ice caps might melt because there's CO2 suspended in the atmosphere." Steve...do you have eyes? I guess Iowans probably aren't the best at understanding how sea level works, but still, if you don't know, keep your mouth shut. Anyway, back to the Latin America comment. Maybe so many Latin Americans wouldn't want to come here if we didn't train all their soldiers who are led by the U.S. installed dictators to torture and murder anybody opposing the totalitarian regime we set in place. Perhaps Steve King should do some fact checking before he opens his mouth. Here is a Colbert Report in which Stephen Colbert rips apart Steve King for his ignorant comparison of immigrants and dogs...yes....dogs. Colbert