Congressman Steve King misses the mark on his tweet

TheBlaze radio host Chris Salcedo believes that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) missed the mark with a tweet about how Western civilization cannot be restored with "somebody else's babies." A

According to Salcedo, King's tweet was in response to European politician Geert Wilders' tweet about the difficulties posed by radical Islam within the flood of Syrian refugees that have migrated to Europe. Salcedo understood where King was going but believes the wording of the tweet caused King's point to be needlessly lost in controversy.

In the Sunday post that drew fire on social media, King said,"I've been to Europe and spoken on this issue. I've said to them you can't rebuild your civilization with someone else's babies. ... You've got to keep your birthrate up, and you need to teach your children your values," Salcedo reads.

As part of his response to the furor generated over the tweet, King has argued that Western civilization is a superior civilization and that it should be shared with everyone. "See now had he tweeted that, I think he'd have been fine," Chris says. However, Salcedo points out one of the primary problems with the way King's tweet was worded: "Our civilization in the United States of America is primarily made up of other people's babies is it not?"

Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017

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