Rep. King: Most Hispanic kids are drug runners

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently remarked that he felt sorry for House Speaker John Boehner, I think he was referring to moments like this.

Boehner and other GOP leaders are denouncing one of their own, Rep. Steven King, who said the other day that for every undocumented Hispanic child in America who is a high school valedictorian, there are 100 more who are drug runners.

At a time when the House GOP is trying to take control of the immigration debate – and the national party is attempting to woo Hispanic voters – Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wasted no time in denouncing the wayward King. Boehner even called the remarks “hateful.”

King was explaining his opposition to a path to citizenship for so-called DREAMer kids, those who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents at a young age.

Of course, the kooky King, a tea party favorite, is best known for his off-the-wall comments that often demonstrate a special brand of ignorance and bias. 

His only competition comes from another tin-foil-hat Republican, Rep. Michele Bachmann, who earned yet another “pants on fire” rating from Politi-fact for falsely claiming that President Obama, by executive order, could grant voting rights to the 11 million undocumented immigrants who would gain legal resident status under the Senate immigration reform bill.

Here is the quote, from a Newsmax interview, that got King into trouble once again:

"Some of them are valedictorians, and their parents brought them in. It wasn't their fault. It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians. They weren't all brought in by their parents. For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”