Arianna Huffington has a great post over at Huffington Report, discussing John McCain's tepid response to Congressman Peter King's [update. WHOOPS: it is Steven, not Peter. h/t to Don Sherfick} despicable remarks about Barack Obama. When asked to disassociate himself from King's racist (and imbecilic) remarks, he merely said he "didn't agree" with them.

As Huffington notes, this isn't the first time this whack-job has said unbelievable things: "King said the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib amounted to little more than "hazing," compared immigrants to "livestock" in proposing an electrified fence for the southern border, refused to vote for an innocuous House resolution commending the Muslims on the Ramadan holiday, released a "report" baselessly claiming that undocumented immigrants have murdered more Americans than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002, praised Joe McCarthy as "a great American hero," argued that the civilian violent death rate in Washington, D.C., is actually higher than it is in Iraq, was one of only 11 lawmakers to vote against emergency relief funds for Hurricane Katrina victims, and, after the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed, said derisively that Zarqawi was now at a place where there are 72 virgins who "probably all look like Helen Thomas."

Nice to know that--while he doesn't reject King--McCain doesn't necessarily "agree."

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