Rep. Steve King Declares War On Christmas, Eats Reindeer

Posted by | December 25, 2013 12:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Top Stories


It’s time for another episode of “Great Moments in Bad Tea Party Optics.” Whatever will we tell the children?

As Santa made his way around the globe to deliver presents, one GOP congressman introduced a Christmas special into his diet.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) posted a photo to his Twitter account Wednesday morning, displaying a meal he had eaten in Oslo, Norway. Among the items on his plate was reindeer.


A few days earlier, King delivered his Christmas message to constituents, urging them to tell him what their #DCWishList was. King’s own wish was “that we would all pull together to restore the pillars of American exceptionalism.”

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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.