Steve King Embraces Twitter Hate

By Warren Rojas

Posted October 8, 2014 at 11:49am

Rep. Steve King doesn’t appear to be the least bit fazed by all the rhetorical jabs thrown at him on social media.

If anything, the cyber-sparring seems to tickle his funny bone.

The Iowa Republican recently engaged in a little self-deprecating exercise his re-election campaign has dubbed “King Mean Tweets” — an ego gut-check originally developed by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel .

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