MSNBC Guest April Ryan: Steve King Is ‘Stunted Mentally,’ Blasts GOP as Not Colorblind

Curtis Houck | July 20, 2016
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Two days after a tense exchange on MSNBC involving race and American history, American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan returned to the network’s set on Wednesday night to declare her opponent from Monday in Republican Congressman Steve King (Iowa) is “stunted mentally to be honest with you.”

Ryan went on for nearly two minutes uninterrupted in a lecture that included her belief that King is mentally handicapped (in a disappointing but not surprising departure from civility): “But let me go back to what Steve King said last — this — a couple days ago. Steve King, I think he’s got — he’s stunted mentally, to be honest with you and that’s as nice as I can be.”

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