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Well....I thought it was funny?

Mike

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ed Jun 21, 10:28 PM ET

DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa congressman apologized Wednesday for disparaging comments he made last week at the state Republican convention about a veteran White House correspondent.
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Rep. Steve King (news, bio, voting record), R-Iowa, was discussing the June 7 death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Saturday when he mentioned 85-year-old Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House for nearly 50 years and is a columnist for Hearst Newspapers.

"There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell he's at," King said about al-Zarqawi, in a recording transcribed by Radio Iowa. "And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas."

Spokeswoman Summer Johnson said in an e-mail Wednesday that King has apologized to Thomas.

The two-term congressman is running for re-election. Joyce Schulte, King's Democratic opponent in November, said the remarks were uncivil.

Thomas did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
 
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Mike- Law enforcement said that for years about Janet Reno- most figured that her support of the terrorists, refusal to take action against them, and cutback on US security and intelligence measures was to assure that she was one of the 72 :!:
 

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