Steve King on Reid: ‘Every Word Was True’

The conservative congressman from Iowa goes a little off-message, via my colleague Jason Hancock at The Iowa Independent. King’s response to the Reid flap, on Twitter:

If Harry Reid had defended Lott, he should not resign for his remarks about Obama. Every word was true. A pass for truth?

It’s not quite clear whether he’s referring to Reid’s comments or Lott’s, but the safe assumption is Reid, and that gets at a reason why this flap isn’t having the same impact — there’s some amount of political research backing up Reid’s take on race and “dialect” and their effect on voters.