“Unhinged” “Erratic” Senator Frantically Attempts To Walk Back Latest Offensive Comments
Mark Kirk spent the weekend frantically attempting to walk back his inflammatory charge that President Obama wants “to get nukes to Iran” and that thousands in the Middle East would lose their lives “because of this decision by Barack Hussein Obama.” He also compared the Iran deal to Nazi appeasement pre-World War II. After once again finding himself amid a firestorm of criticism, Kirk tried to backtrack, suggesting that “That was me being too carried away.”
But this is just the latest in a series of unhinged, offensive comments from Kirk. If he is willing to admit he went too far on the Iran comments, will he also admit he got “carried away” in the following recent instances?
- Kirk referred to an unmarried male colleague as a “bro with no ho” and went on to explain that that’s how someone would say it on the South Side of Chicago.
- In April, Kirk told a local Illinois paper that people drive faster through African-American neighborhoods.
- During Republican obstruction on the human trafficking bill Kirk likened Democrats to slavery apologists for standing up for a woman’s right to choose.
- Kirk previously name-checked Hitler and likened Iran deal to Nazi appeasement.
- As Kirk and his GOP colleagues inched towards a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Kirk said that Republicans “should build a number of coffins outside each Democratic office” in the event of a terrorist attack.
An editorial from the Southern Illinoisan over the weekend put it well when they described Kirk as “unhinged” and “the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz, a man more concerned with making a name within his party’s fringe than representing his constituents. And Kirk’s erratic, self-isolating behavior only hurts the state he’s supposed to represent.”
“If Mark Kirk was willing to admit he got ‘carried away’ with his absurd comments on the Iran deal, he ought to explain whether he was similarly carried away on previous occasions when he offended everyone from women to African Americans to residents of Chicago’s south side,” said Sadie Weiner, DSCC National Press Secretary. “Mark Kirk has come absolutely unglued as he approaches his re-election as the most vulnerable Senator in the country, and unfortunately it is Illinois families who are paying the price for his over-the-top, out-of-control behavior.”
