{"id":177569,"date":"2019-08-15T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/15\/stephen-king-is-a-portrait-of-dorian-gray\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T01:04:00","slug":"stephen-king-is-a-portrait-of-dorian-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/15\/stephen-king-is-a-portrait-of-dorian-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King is a Portrait of Dorian Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Once again, Steve King (R-IA) <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/457453-king-incites-furor-with-abortion-rape-and-incest-remarks\">Republicans are distancing themselves from the Hawkeye State lawmaker for revealing their inner Id<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/steven-steve-king\">Steve King<\/a> (R-Iowa) sparked a new uproar Wednesday after making incendiary comments about rape and incest, with Democrats \u2014 including multiple presidential candidates \u2014 rushing to condemn the controversial lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>King made the remarks while speaking to the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa, on Wednesday, where he sought to defend anti-abortion legislation with no rape or incest exceptions. \u201cWhat if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?&#8221; the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can&#8217;t say that I was not a part of a product of that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>House GOP Conference Chairwoman <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/elizabeth-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (Wyo.) tore into the Iowa Republican, suggesting his past and recent remarks made him unfit for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I\u2019ve said before, it\u2019s time for him to go. The people of Iowa\u2019s 4th congressional district deserve better,&#8221; Cheney said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans are not outraged because the statement is outrageous, they are terrified that King&#8217;s comments reveal their true inner selves.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen King is the mirror that they cannot bear to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Steve King (R-IA) Republicans are distancing themselves from the Hawkeye State lawmaker for revealing their inner Id: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) sparked a new uproar Wednesday after making incendiary comments about rape and incest, with Democrats \u2014 including multiple presidential candidates \u2014 rushing to condemn the controversial lawmaker. King made the remarks while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,374,414],"class_list":["post-177569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}